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Book Reviews

Review: 📚 The Philosopher’s Stone is a millennial’s nostalgic kryptonite 📚

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry’s eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin! Continue reading Review: 📚 The Philosopher’s Stone is a millennial’s nostalgic kryptonite 📚

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Book Reviews

Review: 📚 Killing Floor introduces us to one of the best characters in crime fiction 📚

Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he’s about to regret.
Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years. The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure:
They picked the wrong guy to take the fall. Continue reading Review: 📚 Killing Floor introduces us to one of the best characters in crime fiction 📚

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Game Reviews

Review: 🎮 Alan Wake’s light can’t quite pierce the darkness of its age, but its shining narrative exudes a bright future 🎮

Troubled author Alan Wake embarks on a desperate search for his missing wife, Alice. Following her mysterious disappearance from the Pacific Northwest town of Bright Falls, he discovers pages of a horror story he has supposedly written, but he has no memory of. Wake is soon forced to question his sanity, as page by page, the story comes true before his eyes: a hostile presence of supernatural darkness is taking over everyone it finds, turning them against him.

He has no choice but to confront the forces of darkness armed only with his flashlight, a handgun and what remains of his shredded mind. His nightmarish journey to find answers to the mind-bending mystery he faces will lead him into the terrifying depths of the night. Continue reading Review: 🎮 Alan Wake’s light can’t quite pierce the darkness of its age, but its shining narrative exudes a bright future 🎮

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Review: 🎮 Dead Space is arguably the best sci-fi horror game even over a decade from its release 🎮

Only the dead survive…

A massive deep-space mining ship, the USG Ishimura, goes dark after unearthing a strange artifact on a distant planet. Engineer Isaac Clarke embarks on the repair mission, only to uncover a nightmarish blood bath — the ship’s crew horribly slaughtered and infected by alien scourge. Continue reading Review: 🎮 Dead Space is arguably the best sci-fi horror game even over a decade from its release 🎮

Unknown's avatarMatthew Robert Bell3 Comments