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Landscape With Invisible Hand: A new take on an alien invastion - Tucker Gergen

   Landscape With Invisible Hand follows an artist and his girlfriend in a alien world. In this world it is hard for humans to get jobs because the aliens (vuvv) took all the jobs and the only way to make money is to get close to them. People have to learn a new language and adapt to all these strange technologies. Our main characters find a way to make money by broadcasting their love to the vuvv as a 1950s couple. The vuvv have kids, or spawn as they call them, just come out like a bud on a flower. The reason this matters is as the book describes it, “there is no evolutionary benefit for vuvv to like walks on the beach, unlike for humans.”  Love interests them and in fact it seems the vuvv as fascinated in people with out caring about them. This book does well as a commentary and great for the creative and imaginative mind. For example it says the vuvv are squares that walk on all fours. You may have a completely different idea of what they look like from me....

Hector Kircher - Wings of Fire (Winter Turning)

I’ve read the Wings of Fire series as a kid. Since I liked the series, and read books 1 through 6, I decided to do a blog post for book 7 because I didn’t read it yet. In case you’re not familiar with the Wings of Fire series, it is a series where the books are written in the point of view of a dragon. This makes it have a really unique experience than regular books. So about book 7, the plot is where Winter (the main character for this book) has been a disappointment to his family and needs to get his dignity back. He later finds out that his sister, Icicle, has been committing terrible crimes so he needs to confront her. I think the Wings of Fire series as a whole is really good and creative because dragons are the main characters. Every book has a different main character which keeps each book from being too similar from each other, and the amount of character development that happens in the series is very good. It does get a little violent at times, but other than that I really lik...

Hatchet: It lived up to the hype - Tucker Gergen

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                “I don’t cry, I don’t really show emotion, I don’t like sobby movies because they don’t make me cry. The first chapter of Hatchet was the best piece of creative art I have ever seen, read or heard. Period. Some come close but this made me cry. Not a movie, a book was the first thing to make me tear up in a long time.” This is what I said for my first review of the book of just the first chapter. It is a high bar to hold up to and it does it quite well. It takes something as simple as making a spear and makes it interesting and makes you interested and invested in this city boy who slowly learns as he puts it the rules of the forest.  Food first             Use everything           Never get lazy or it can all come crashing down           You are never safe As I said in my previous review the book ...

Gus Powell- Prince Caspian

 Prince Caspian is a story in the series The Chronicles of Narnia  and I will be reviewing my reading experience with it as part of my continuing reviews of the series. It starts with a boy, Caspian, being an heir to the throne of Narnia, but his evil uncle King Miraz wants someone else to be the heir. With his mentor's help, Doctor Cornelius, Caspian flees the castle into the forest and with the help of talking beasts and the former rulers of Narnia, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, they defeat the King Miraz, and Prince Caspian becomes King Caspian.  This book is pretty enjoyable to read, although it is not nearly as good as the first three, it still brings the same feeling that all of the rest of the books bring. It continues on the stories of the 4 original characters, and also brings in a couple new ones. This is my fifth favorite of the seven books, that's not taking away from it, but that's just how it ranks next to the other ones in the series. I give it a 7.5...