Reply: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians – Book 5: The Dark Talent – By Brandon Sanderson

November.11.2016December.9.2016 JaredBrandon Sanderson, Fantasy, Youth5 Comments

Robert,

Funny thing your review came out today and today is when the library gave me the digital edition. So I powered through and here is the reply.

darktalent-reply Title: The Dark Talent
Series: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians; Book 5
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Youth
ROTS Setting: EU, Modern, No Higher Magic, Dragons
Synopsis: The “Final” book in the Alcatraz series. It has been a long time coming but we have it at last.
Recommendation: I recommend ages 8-12 as per the teacher aid information in the back of the book. This is a very short book I only read it across like 4 hours, disappointingly short.

SPOILERS TO FOLLOW

Seriously read Robert’s Review first as this is a response to his review.

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Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians – Book 5: The Dark Talent – By Brandon Sanderson

November.11.2016October.21.2016 Robert @ ReadingOverTheShoulderBrandon Sanderson, Fantasy, YouthLeave a comment

Jared,

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Title: The Dark Talent
Series: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians; Book 5
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Youth
ROTS Setting: EU, Modern, No Higher Magic, Dragons
Synopsis: Alcatraz is pure evil. Brandon Sanderson is the spawn of the Devil, may he suffer eternally from an infinite number of paper cuts.
Recommendation: Early teens or moderately skilled readers. I highly recommend this series…….if only so you understand my exquisite pain.

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Blog News: State of the Blog 2016

November.5.2016October.16.2017 Robert @ ReadingOverTheShoulderRecap, State of the BlogLeave a comment

Yesterday was the One Year Anniversary of our first blog post. We’d had the idea a few weeks before that and started working on it the few days just before the 4th and our first post of any substance wasn’t until a few days later. For me this entire past week has been our anniversary. So this, the Saturday in the week of the 4th of November, will be our State of the Blog.

– – Blog Audit 2016 – –

Views = 513
Visitors = 394
Likes = 142
Comments = 14
Total Posts = 91
Total Books Reviewed = 54
Followers: 21

– – Goals for 2017 – –

Weekly, at least 10 views and visitors each.
- Stretch goal of 20 views and visitors each.
A new logo.
Reach 100 followers.
Robert, twice weekly posts, including new release announcements.

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Planetfall – by Emma Newman

November.4.2016October.19.2016 Robert @ ReadingOverTheShoulderAdult, Emma Newman, Science FictionLeave a comment

Jared,

How was your Halloween? Ours was great. We had a Trunk-n-Treat on the 29th and then Halloween night we went to a nearby neighborhood that we went to last year…..They give out full size chocolate bars.

Title: Planetfall
Author: Emma Newman
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adult
ROTS Setting: CU, Near-to-Distant Future, Cerebral
Synopsis: Ren traveled millions of miles on faith alone. A faith that was based on a person. Now twenty years later and utterly faithless, she must confront the truths she hides and the lies she uses to perpetuate it.
Recommendation: For adults. Also this isn’t a space opera or action adventure and more cerebral. I definitely recommend this book.