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From lunch earlier today - getting very close to finishing this book!

This boom reminds me of many other books and still manages to be unique, interesting, and fun! I really enjoyed it!

My quick pitch for this series is “The Hunger Games meets Dungeons and Dragons—with aliens.”

DCC was an unexpected hit with my book club, and an instance where I think the audiobook really enhances the story, because the only person in our club that didn‘t love it read a physical copy. I‘m honestly in awe of the audiobook narrator (Jeff Hays)

The book isn‘t perfect, and there‘s lots of violence and gore, but boy is it a wild ride!

This is super cute and I love the dinosaur consultant's commentary between chapters. The bit with baby Benkei is just aaaaah. 💙

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The tagged book opens with the dramatic destruction of the major Italian cities on 9-11 2077 from a meteorite. This catastrophic event, & scientific advancement, leads to a watch organization for future events. Eventually an object of interest, traveling at unusually high speed, is flagged & spaceship Endeavor is sent to intercept & investigate. What they find is a massive ship that is described as more of a world & by the end (CONT)

“The columns were not transparent from every angle or under all illuminations. As one walked around them, objects would suddenly flash into view, apparently embedded in their depths like flies in amber, & would then disappear again. There were dozens of them, all different. They looked absolutely real & solid, yet many seemed to occupy the identical volume of space.“

I had a fun time reading this. It was interesting and I finished it in one day. Yes it seemed a little more wooden than Katniss‘ story. I couldn‘t get behind Lenore as a character. And I really hated all the songs they kept quoting. The would quote the same song over and over. That seemed very unnecessary. But even with all that, I enjoyed the book and found it entertaining.

This was the cute, fairly low-stakes manga I needed today, due to the loss of a pet (Hulk, for those who know us). I love the little fact files between chapters -- it's obviously aimed at kids, but I'm enough of a dinosaur nerd to enjoy it all the same.

Masaruuu. 💙
(That's the triceratops.)