Book 105 of the Boxcar Children series. This fun mystery has a great twist, weird puzzle, and happy ending even if a bit silly in the end. Aside from that I love the spirit of these books showing a willingness to pitch in where needed. The lessons on attitude I feel is lost on a…

Book 13 of the Myth Adventures. This for once in a while was a Skeeve adventure. He is not the lead character for nothing and this has all the charm, adventure, sexual innuendo, and hilarity of the books so far. With all the misunderstanding of an episode of Three’s Company there is a strong lesson…

Book 13 of Myth Adventures. The crew is at it again, between a beauty contest, a gold heist, even a stint in Dreamland the laughs continue. Skeeve being retired doesn’t stop him from getting into a little action. Albeit most of the stories in this one do not feature him. This book continues the strength…

Book 1 of the Infinite Realms series. This book is a standard RPGLit style, with course language. Aside from the language, the book is great. It takes a bit to follow as you’re jumping between people and time (past/present). I love the theme of what someone would call evil could be the opposite. This wonderful…

Book 2 of the Earthsea Cycle. This book answers some questions and we see Sparrowhawk much older than I would have expected. However, this is a great story and the story starts from a while different direction than you would expect. I do love the circle that we see in theme that allows us to…

Book 35.5 of the Animorphs series. This was an in-depth telling of the Yerk known as Visser 1. It was interesting and gives us just a little more backstory to this in and out villain that gets touched on several times throughout the series. Overall mostly an exposition/trial and nothing critical to the series, just…

Book 1 of the Earthsea series. This is one of the classic fantasy books and a read will let you know right away why it is one book that is referred back to all the time. This story explores our hero’s journey from a young age. It explores how trying to take the easy route…

Book 12.5 of Animorphs. This is Elfangor’s story. An interesting backstory of the hero we only met briefly. It is simply wonderful to know how and what happened that has only been hinted at. It is wonderful to enjoy the history and see how the pieces fit together. The theme of what would you do…

Book 5 of Goosebumps. This one takes place in Egypt. Spooky and crazy as the strangeness pulls our protagonists into an ancient world of magic did it really happen or not. Isn’t it great to go through the whole thing just for a pun. Or maybe the pun was just convenient for the moment. Still…

Book 6 of the Tower of Power series. This bridge book opens the new threat, introduces us to them and sets our heroes into a position where they can compete with a new and worse threat. That said there is plenty of action and we do get a little more insight into the bigger picture.…