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The Hurricane Wars and A Monsoon Rising
Note: This is a review on the first two novels in the Hurricane Wars trilogy. On the Continent, the Sardovian Allfold and the Night Empire are at constant war, and in the midst of the never-ending battle lies Talasyn, an headstrong soldier who is fighting for Sardovia’s freedom against the Kesathese. But Tala has a…
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The Spear Cuts Through Water
In the early days of the Old Country, an emperor frees the Moon by cutting her out of the sky so that she may escape death by hiding out on Earth. In exchange, she bears him three sons so that he may continue his legacy. Soon thereafter, the emperor betrays her and locks her away…
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Angel Down
and so let me leave you with this: if you’re a fan of experimental styles, and the complexity of human design, and if you hold on to a bit of hope even in the midst of pervading despair, few books deliver a more haunting picture of survival, and in the cacophony of explosions and the…
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Deathly Fates
In Deathly Fates, we follow Kang Siying, a ganshi priestess who reanimates the dead so they can be reunited with their loved ones. It’s a lonesome life. Those who come across the priestess and her walking dead, devoid of all thought and consciousness, steer clear for fear of bad luck. And Siying likes it that…
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The Vain Pursuit of Unrealized Truths
By failing to recognize the woman as an extension of himself, he fails to manipulate the tools around to, essentially, become his most true self. These fears and wishes must be recognized in order to be actualized. Only when the narrator meets his repressed feelings of solitude and desire for companionship can he go beyond…
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Confronting the Burden of Freedom in the Face of Systematic Religion
Regardless of the outcomes that follow thereafter, we must always remember that we are never as alive, never as able, and never as responsible as when we become fully cognizant of a moment in which the progression of our lives depend on our action or inaction.
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Of Love and Other Demons
“Take care. Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.” Gabriel García Márquez
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