An Overwhelmed Creative

Wow! What a page turner this book was. I just couldn't stop. The way it was written just flowed and the order of events was just right to get you interested while slowly learning more about what happened the night of the murder. I really enjoy these kids of thrillers, and The Silent Patient is one that I really enjoyed. Well done, Alex Michaelides. I wonder what else you have in store, I'll be looking to see if his next books is just as good. Cheers!  

 Tress of the Emerald Sea is the first of four books from Brandon Sanderson's Kickstarter. The book was released in January 2023, as promised, and it's been in my Kindle ever since. But now I've gotten to it and it just what I needed after struggling to read Stephen King's Fairy Tale. Without giving much away, the book is more of a fairy tale than Stephen King's book ever was. It was wholesome, filled with magic, and lots of spores. The story happens in another planet, one where the oceans aren't made up of water, but spores. Different kinds of spores for every ocean. Tress lives on an island surrounded by green spores, and as her adventure begins—fueled by love—she gets to interact with other spores. According to their color, the spores do different things when they are in contact with water, which makes it interesting, but a bit confusing, to be honest. But I just went with the flow and did my best to believe a ship sailing over spores. Apart from that, the st...

  What an amazing game! I finished it in about six weeks, playing more hours than I usually play during a week. I just couldn't get enough.  Hogwarts Legacy got a lot of things right. Especially because they used the same sets and creature design used in the Harry Potter movies. As I rewatch the movies with my son in preparation to go see The Cursed Child in NYC in a few weeks, I get a sense of nostalgia feeling like I've been there too. It's amazing how they managed to recreate Hogwarts Castle like they did. If anything, just being there discovering more and more Harry Potter related things, is worth the money I paid for the game. The game gave me a lot of freedom to explore, but it did stagger the main quest and side quests in an interesting way. First of all, it let me synch to my Wizarding World online account. As I was sorted into Hufflepuff years ago, I now feel like Hufflepuff is my house and I wouldn't change it for the world. Synching your account before the ga...

 Golly! It took me two months to finish this book. I usually enjoy books by Stephen King, but this one was the exception. The story is split in two. The first part of the book was amazing. Great character development and build up to something that was coming that promised to be wonderful. Unfortunately, it wasn't so. Once the "fantasy" part started, I couldn't seem to read more than two or three pages without falling asleep. I understood how King loves his Dark Tower idea of "There are more worlds than this", but the way he shifts his language use and writing style when he is writing characters and stories in that world, just isn't for me. I swear next time I have trouble falling asleep, I'll take out my Kindle and read a couple of pages of Fairy Tale . Sounds horrible, I know. The fantasy world just wasn't interesting, and the too many character introductions made it confusing. Also, he didn't get me to care about any of the characters. The ...

 What a rollercoaster of a book. I've heard about this book from several people. About Coleen Hoover in general and how great her books were. But whenever I read the descriptions of her books I was turned off by the themes. I don't like tragic stories mostly. And I heat reading about injustice. That's what I read the books were about. But my co-worker continued to insist and the book she said I should read about her was Verity. And so I eventually go to it. I must say that the book starts weird, with an event that apparently makes no sense, but a good hook. Then we meet the characters and everything looks fine. Until it isn't. There are horrible scenes about a person doing horrible things to her spouse and children. So much that I decided NOT to recommend the book to my teenage daughter (who reads about everything she can get her hands on).  I read on anyway, and the ending was completely worth it. I did have to suffer a lot to get there, but eventually, I did. It was a...

  I had heard about this game and I had read it was similar to games like Witcher and Assassin's Creed. The setting was Japan, so that was a plus for me.  The story is set in Tsushima, which is a small Japanese island that made for a great map to play in. We follow Jin, a fallen samurai who is rescued and healed by a woman who needs his help rescuing her brother. A blacksmith who is being held prisoner by the Mongols. All of the samurai fell during a battle with the Mongols, and Jin is the only one left. At first, Jin uses his sword, but soon he learns to assassinate, which isn't the samurai way. The game even tells you in the beginning that if you keep assassinating people, you are going against samurai code, but I couldn't see a way around this, so I kept doing it. Eventually your actions that go against samurai code have a cost, which I thought was a cool detail. Most of the story is how you try to defeat the Mongols from taking over the island. You learn to throw smoke ...

  There are so many games out there and more and more come up each month. Sometimes I feel like I won't be able to play them all in my life time. This truly is the era of creators. We can publish our books, our art, our videos, and even video games. I love being a creator, but I also love being a consumer, too. There are so many awesome things out there, I wish I had more time to consume it all. What Else Is Coming That I Want to Play? Jedi: Survivor This caught me completely by surprise. I was not expecting this. I recently played Jedi: Fallen Order and was blown away by the story line (and that ending!). I definitely did not expect a sequel to this character's story. Wow! Just wow! Sign me up! Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores I usually don't play DLCs if I have already finished the game, but I will for this DLC. The only problem is that they announced it will only be available for the PS5 and still haven't found one. Sad, I know. But I can't wait to go back t...