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Maddie (37 KP) rated Oxenfree in Video Games

Nov 16, 2017

Oxenfree

2016 | Action/Adventure, Horror

8.1

(11 Ratings)

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Actions have consequences (2 more)

Great characters

Art was beautiful

Sometimes bugged, resulting in closing the game (0 more)

Short to play, but incredibly fun

Oxenfree was a beautifully styled coming-of-age story that pulled the player into the relationships between characters as much as into the drama of the ghost story. At times intense and a little scary (I'm a baby about stuff like that though), but also sweet and compelling. I really wanted everyone to be okay, although I fudged a bunch and not everyone made it out alive.

The actions have consequences aspect is great. The choices felt like realistic situations for the teenagers and each bad/good decision was believable.

Plan on playing this again in the near future to try and better improve my favorite character's chances!

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Anninmi (2 KP) rated High Achiever-The Shocking True Story Of One Addict’s Double Life in Books

Apr 15, 2018 (Updated Apr 15, 2018)

Ms. Jenkin’s shares her story of traveling from what was seemingly a normal life to addiction to jail to sobriety in a way that is eye opening and entertaining offering hope to the reader that life can be good again. (0 more)

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This book, a true life story, is written in a way that reads like fiction and engages from the beginning. It is short and easy to read but full of valuable lessons to the reader of what jail is like and what it feels like to both have messed up and hurt those you love as well as successfully navigated recovery. There is some “mature content” (drug use, language, lesbianism) but it isn’t gratuitous. Ms. Jenkins book is as funny, touching, and insightful as her blog, “Juggling The Jenkins”.

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Georgina DeBurca (2 KP) rated Wolf Bond (Lyric Hounds, #2) in Books

Jan 29, 2018

What can I say? Another amazing book from the very talented Mina Carter. I'm not going to give away the story line as that's not fair to future readers, but what I can say is that you won't regret reading this.

I loved the characters. I loved that the past characters returned to this book in smaller roles, and showed character development. The scenes were sizzling, the emotions so perfectly described I could see the whole setting and such in my minds eye. That's how a book should be. It should transport the reader into the story.

It was a good pace. Short and sweet. By the end you were left wanting more. It was well written with no errors to stumble over.

5/5

Would definitely suggest to others.

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Liliannar (58 KP) rated The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in Books

May 29, 2018

I had a really hard time with this book. The story itself is wonderful. I can get behind the idea that we are reading this from the point of view of a 9 year old boy but the writing style is something a five year old would say, not a 9 year old. The ending was sad, but expected. I'm shocked it took me 8 full days to read this book. It was incredibly short and easy to read in the sense of flow but I couldn't get past the poor narration style. If you're in it for the story you may love this. There were multiple paragraphs I flat out skipped because it was a near repeat of something previous. I could skim most of it and not miss a beat.

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Ross (3284 KP) rated Batman the Killing Joke in Books

Nov 9, 2018

Fantastically written self-contained story with superb artwork

This short graphic novel sees Batman trying to peacefully put an end to his conflict with the Joker (safely behind bars - or is he?) before one of them ends up dead. Needless to say Joker escapes and puts in place his plan to show the beauty of madness. He wants to show that everyone would be happier if they just let their brain snap under extreme strain, and then you'll always see the funny side.
Some superb artwork throughout the book, both in the current story and flashbacks of Mr J's life.
I think fans of the Arkham video games will get a real buzz out of this, it is totally in line with the stories and settings used in the games.

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Sarah Redden (569 KP) rated Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp in Books

Oct 17, 2019 (Updated Oct 17, 2019)

A true account (0 more)

Slow going (1 more)

Hard to get into

I started this book a few weeks ago and I really couldn't get into it. I kept putting it down and struggled to be excited to pick it up again and get stuck into it. I found it very vague and patchy in the first half of the book because the paragraphs are short in places and don't seem to follow any kind of story, I know that's because it's in diary form. The second half of the book seemed to pick up momentum and I would of preferred the book to have been written as a story instead of diary form. Despite not enjoying it that much I felt I owed it to the author to finish it because of the awful things she experienced.