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Rick Riordan Book Reading Order (Or, How To Start Reading Percy Jackson As A Grown-Up)

With the new Percy Jackson and the Olympians series coming to Disney+ new folks might be wanting to read the books. I started reading Rick Riordan’s books over a decade ago, and want to help with a guide to the order of reading these books, as there are some of my favorites of all time. Rick Riordan has 5 demigod series, each with novellas and companion novels. The Kane Chronicles can be read…

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Movie Review: Werewolf By Night

Official Synopsis: On a dark and sombre night, a secret cabal of monster hunters emerge from the shadows and gather at the Bloodstone Temple following the death of their leader; the attendees are thrust into a mysterious and deadly competition for a powerful relic. Review: Werewolf by Night is a 2022 TV special released on Disney+. The special is based on comics, and is, ostensibly set in the…

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Book Review: Thornehedge

Pub Date 15 Aug 2023  From USA Today bestselling author T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways. There’s a princess trapped in a tower. This isn’t her story. Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of…

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Video Game Review: Recipe for Disaster

Recipe for Disaster is a management sim that captures the fast-paced, drama-filled environment of a professional kitchen and dining room. Build your dream restaurant, create recipes, design menus and manage your staff, all while contending with demanding customers and disastrous situations! DEVELOPER: Dapper Penguin Studios PUBLISHER: Kasedo Games Review: Recipe for Disaster is a decently fun…

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Book Review: Divine Rivals

Official Synopsis: When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever. After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to hold her family together. Her mother is suffering from addiction and her brother is missing from the front lines. Her…

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Book Review: Cartoonshow

Pub Date 01 Aug 2023 For Better or For Worse meets the satirical humor of contemporary American life in Cartoonshow, where single dading, money troubles, and political turmoil take the stage.  Derek is a solo parent raising three kids in the American south while trying to make art. Told in a series of free-flowing and often hilarious comic essays, Cartoonshow gets to the heart of the struggle…

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Book Review: Silver In The Bone

Official Summary: A series opener inspired by Arthurian legend and fueled by love, revenge, and pure adrenaline! Tamsin Lark didn’t ask to be a Hollower. As a mortal with no magical talent, she was never meant to break into ancient crypts, or compete with sorceresses and Cunningfolk for the treasures inside. But after her thieving foster father disappeared without so much as a goodbye, it was…

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Book Review - Milk & Mocha: Our Little Happiness Comics Collections

Official Synopsis: Cozy up with a warm cup of tea and follow the sweet scenes of Milk and Mocha, from the popular webcomic @milkmochabear. Milk and Mocha share their sweet slice-of-life moments in this new collection, including never-before-seen comics! Milk and Mocha are charming bears with opposite personalities. These uplifting comics remind us of the sweet moments we share with our friends,…

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Book Review: Phasers on Stun!: How the Making (and Remaking) of Star Trek Changed the World

Official Synopsis: Written with inside access, comprehensive research, and a down-to-earth perspective, Phasers on Stun! chronicles the entire history of Star Trek, revealing that its enduring place in pop culture is all thanks to innovative pivots and radical change.  For over five decades, the heart of Star Trek’s pro-science, anti-racist, and inclusive messaging has been its willingness to…

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Book Review - The Binge Watcher's Guide to the Twilight Saga: An Unofficial GuideBook

Official Synopsis: In 2008, the first Twilight movie was released in the United States. The book series it was based on had already gained best-seller status and a devoted fanbase, but the five movies known as The Twilight Saga propelled this supernatural romance to unbelievable heights. Everyone had something to love, hate, or comment about regarding the forbidden love story between paranormal…

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Book Review: The Mimicking of Known Successes

Official Synopsis: The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle. On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s erudite university—and Mossa’s…

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Book Recommendations Based on Your Favorite Batman Kid: Duke Thomas (aka Signal)

The last thing in the world Thom Creed wants is to add to his father’s pain, so he keeps secrets. Like that he has special powers. And that he’s been asked to join the League – the very organization of superheroes that spurned his dad. But the most painful secret of all is one Thom can barely face himself: he’s gay. But becoming a member of the League opens up a new world to Thom. There, he…

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Book Recommendations Based on Your Favorite Batman Kid: Barbara Gordon (aka Batgirl aka Oracle)

Fall in love, break the curse.Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Emberfall, thought he could be saved easily if a girl fell for him. But that was before he turned into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. Before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope.Nothing has ever been easy for Harper. With her…

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Book Recommendations Based On Your DnD Class: Druid

Col felt a stab of fear in his stomach. The Sirens were now close enough for him to see their crimson mouths open in a scream, pale faces blazing with white-hot anger, their bird claws tearing at the air. When eleven-year-old Connie is sent to live with her eccentric aunt by the sea, she’s not expecting anything great—not to make friends with Col, the coolest guy in town, and certainly not to…

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Book Recommendations Based On Your DnD Class: Ranger

Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf? Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin…

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Book Recommendations Based On Your DnD Class: Sorcerer

Five years ago, Corin Cadence’s brother entered the Serpent Spire — a colossal tower with ever-shifting rooms, traps, and monsters. Those who survive the spire’s trials return home with an attunement: a mark granting the bearer magical powers. According to legend, those few who reach the top of the tower will be granted a boon by the spire’s goddess. He never returned. Now, it’s Corin’s turn.…

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Book Recommendations Based On Your DnD Class: Warlock

Lovecraftian horror from award-winning Forgotten Realms(R)game designer Bruce R. Cordell.Raidon Kane travels to the subterranean fortress of the somnambulant aboleths, bent on killing the Eldest in its sleep. But he isn’t the only one bound for the hidden city. A warlock, an arch fey, a pirate, and a high priestess of the Abolethic Sovereignty all have designs of their own on the Eldest-if they…

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