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Slow Burn: The Anchor and Sophia, Book 2 Book Review
age 14+ Absorbing second installment ramps up the adventure. Parents need to know that Tommy Wallach's Slow Burn is the second of a planned trilogy that began with Strange Fire. Reading Strange Fire first is strongly recommended; although it's not strictly necessary to understand the plot, it will definitely provide a deeper understanding of the characters' journeys and the themes explored.
On creating a board game that is also a work of literature.
Telling good stories in games is really hard. It’s hard in any medium, of course, but games provide a set of challenges over and above those faced by novelists and screenwriters. Take the question of agency—if the player is allowed to make the primary narrative decisions in the game, then the story no longer has a comprehensible protagonist; Anna Karenina would hardly be Anna Karenina if the reader could choose to have her board the train instead of dive under it.
Bitsy Words: Thanks for the Trouble by Tommy Wallach
Bitsy Words: Thanks for the Trouble by Tommy Wallach 18th Apr 2016 Jess @ Gone with the Words Book Reviews At the beginning of Thanks for the Trouble I thought we were going to have ourselves a manic-pixie-dream-girl situation on our hands, and while I’m not one to mind them as much as others, I do find them tiresome sometimes. What I ended up getting was more of a mix between a John Green novel, Tuck Everlasting, and Age of Adaline, which was not a bad thing at all.
The New York Times
Emma O’Donovan, a gorgeous 18-year-old Irish girl, is a snob and a boyfriend stealer. She wields her sexuality like somebody waving a gun. At a party, she drinks heavily, ingests a mysterious drug and hooks up with a local soccer star. And then she is gang-raped and dumped unconscious on her porch. Emma remembers nothing, a small mercy. But photos of the attack have been uploaded to a Facebook page called “Easy Emma,” on which cruel comments bloom by the minute. Her big brother sees it. Her mam.
Young Adult Hardcover
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Young Adult Hardcover
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Young Adult Hardcover
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Young Adult Hardcover
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Young Adult Hardcover
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We All Looked Up
What would change if you knew an asteroid was going to hit the earth in six weeks? Wallach takes this premise and crafts it into an addictively readable and thought-provoking work that challenges you to really think about what matters to you.
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