2020 Book Reviews July-September

Here are my book reviews for the third quarter of the year. Sorry that it's been awhile since the last post on the blog, but things have still been happening on the Facebook page. Life in 2020 has been crazy for this geek, and I bet it's been the same for all of you out there. All the books you will find on this list are books, manga, and graphic novels that have an ISBN.

Fiction

Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes!: Hulk Versus the World

This was a children’s book quick read. I feel that it was not thought through when they were creating it, it’s choppy, and just boring. Black Widow’s behavior was way off and the storyline was a corruption of the normal Marvel Universe. Even though it is a child’s book I would not recommend it to any Marvel fan or their kids. Not only does it go off, but it also just leaves you hanging with no formal conclusion to it. I found this book in the free ben at 2nd and Charles and I understand why they didn’t think they could sell it. 1 star out of 5 or a F.

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Rosario + Vampire #7

I’m a fan of both the anime and the manga. Even with that I can only give this one 3 stars out of 5 or a C rating. The story line in this one just did not draw me in.

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Shovel Knight Guidebook

I’ve read about this game before in other game guides, but I’ve never played the game. For a game guide book I would say that it’s about average. It seemed to have some helpful info. I actually found this book at a Dollar Tree store, so it must not have sold well when it was first released. 3 stars out of 5 or a C. As a side note, from what I’ve previously read about the game and this book, it just doesn’t seem like that interesting of a game.

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Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined

First off I will admit that I do not like Stephenie Meyer’s writing style. For the base Twilight books I liked the movies better. The concept of changing around the genders of the characters intrigued me. Then I read it…I feel like I lost brain cells on it. This book was written even worse than the main series. Even though the main character was supposed to be male, Meyer wrote him as if he was still a female. I noticed this in the main series as well. I don’t think that she is capable of writing male characters. There was a twist in this that made the story different from the original. I actually think that if she had done that in Twilight the book would have been better, but she wouldn’t have been able to write so many follow up books. I would not recommend this book to anyone unless you are trapped on an island with nothing else to do or read. 2 stars out of 5 or a D.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation – Starfleet Academy 9: Nova Command

Even though this was a junior reader, I as an adult really liked it. I will admit that this is the first Star Trek book I have read even though I grew up watching both the films and T.V. series. This was a nice way to learn more about Picard’s past. It made me really want to find the rest of the books in the series. I found this book at 2nd and Charles in the kids section. 5 stars out of 5 or a A.

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