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Rereads #1: Call down the hawk

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  Series: Dreamer trilogy  Author: Maggie Stiefvater Genre: Fantasy, Magical Realism Original publication date: November 5, 2019 Book description:  The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming – they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives – they will sleep forever if their dreamers die. And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all. Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality. Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it. Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer . . . and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction...

Tha walking dead update #2

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Author: Robert Kirkman Illustrators: Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn Genre: Sci-fi, Horror Publication date: 2010-2014 Description: the world has come to an end as we know it. There is an infestation of zombie, if you get bitten or scratched you will die and become one of the undead. A few groups of people have survived that and now are trying to rebuild from there. Things are not as easy as they would have assumed. The main threat as they soon come to realize is not the walking dead but those who are yet not infected. Includes volumes 17 to 21. Thoughts: I have enjoyed reading this series. It is full of violence, death, betrayal, fighting for survival. It does not have to be very realistic, but in most cases, it carries a lot of logic. I generally read only 2 or 3 volumes a month but I'm sure the whole rest o the series can be finished in a single month. Each volume is a very quick read. I will next give a few details on what happens in volumes 17 to 21 the most recent volum...