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• Tears of the Kingdom – Nintendo Captures Lightning in a Bottle… Then They Do It Again

  The thirty-seven year legacy of The Legend of Zelda has enabled millions to explore like they always wanted to. In a world increasingly covered in cement and metal, the appeal of a fantastical fight to stop a malevolent ecological disaster from spreading is abundantly clear.

  blakeisreading14

  June 30, 2023

  Essays

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• The Poppy War Had Promise But Wasn’t Quite What I’d Hoped

  

  Three-hundred pages in and I felt like Kuang had yet to really hook me with any narrative weight. Worse, I realized I had been carried along for all those pages on a wave of story beats built entirely upon tired tropes of the fantasy genre.

  blakeisreading14

  January 26, 2023

  Opinions

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• The Wilderwomen – the Paranormal Road Trip for Everyone Feeling a Bit Lost

  

  Lang’s writing powerfully captured the appeal of the road trip novel, using the shifting setting and characters at hand to move the plot forward. With each stop the sisters made, I was left wishing I could spend more time with each of the colorful individuals they came across. But as the book came to a…

  blakeisreading14

  December 8, 2022

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• Polytheism in Fiction – Lyons’ Eight Immortals

  

  The heroes do not fight the Immortals in A Chorus of Dragons just because of their role as deities; the conflict coequally springs from the gods just being horrible people doing horrible things.

  blakeisreading14

  October 20, 2022

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