The Palace LIbrary by Steven Loveridge

The Palace Library By Steven Loveridge

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I loved it!

It was a fun, jaunty tale that reminded me of the best things of childhood.

I really like it because it made me so happy reading it, all warm, fuzzy and covered in feels.

I still remember the first time I traveled through the space-time continuum... um, I...  SO don't have a secret time machine.... THAT would be crazy. 

Don't judge me!

The story was carried with great storytelling, and fun, lovable characters.

Grace discovers a secret... hotdog stand! What? You thought it would be a library? Why on earth would you think that! Sink me!

Oh all right, it's a magical library...

I've always wanted one of those! It sounds wonderful!

Grace, who is eight years old and an orphan, finds the Palace Library.  Then runs the other way,

it was simply much to much for her!

She finds her two cousins Eleanor and Harry and tells them of the library. Of course they do not believe her, but soon they do. They can doubt it no longer and are thrust into an adventure to save the kingdom (in the past) from unrest.

There is treachery afoot.

A sword of magical proportions, gone.

The very sword that commands loyalty from the people, gone.

Without this sword, the people will riot, for the king no longer wields it.

It now lies at the bottom of the sea, unreachable.

They must make another sword to save the kingdom.

But with the direction clouded in mystery and vague ideas,

it might be harder than they thought.

The Palace Library, read it today.

-TheZebraReader

Vision of the Griffins Heart by L.R.W. Lee book 5

Vision of the Griffens Heart by L.R.W Lee
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I do blame L.R.W Lee for my life problems,
because she made me love these characters too much,

and now it's affecting my life.

"I can't believe how horrible that dragon hunting scoundrel is to Andy"

"Katie"

"I mean in their home place and he is disrespecting Andy and their quest for.."

"KATIE!"

"WHAT?!"

"I asked what you wanted for dinner, not about that book you've been reading."

"Oh, well I don't want what the Griffins eat because..."

"sigh"

To be honest I am confused about why some things happened.
I don't know what is going to happen from here.

That's notable, because I like predicting what's going to happen next.
I'm pretty good at it too, *Cough* sometimes. *Cough* okay, I like predicting what is going to happen in the next book.
If it comes true or not, well that is beside the point.

I don't know what's happening next, but it's going to be big.

We're one step closer to finding the cure for the curse.

We see Andy grow,
we see Andy love,
and we see Andy deal with some hard things.

Heck, I got to see myself deal with hard things,

(That's right L.R.W Lee, I'm looking at you for causing me these emotions)

"So that tells me that..."

"Katie!"

"What now, Christina?"

"I'm your sister and I love you, but it's late and I want to go to bed."


"SLEEP! how can anyone sleep! Visions of the Griffins Heart just came out and... Christina, where'd you go?"

Note to self, stop using my blog to write about my problems.

Now, where was I?

So as the norm, it takes Andy a long time to get back to his kingdom.
But he puts the time to good use, writing letters to his friends and getting to know Yara.
It's pretty sweet.

When Andy finally get back, it's clear they're preparing for war.
More and more people are being turned,
and more and more people are acting without conscience.

Things are tense,
and at the back of Andy's mind is the knowledge that in saving his world,
His father and mother will die.

but his dad wouldn't
....
...
If that doesn't make sense, well, you'll just have to read it.
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Don't ask me to explain!
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Stop looking at me like that!
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Well for one, I don't want to give spoilers

and

two, because I still need help understanding it myself.

like I was saying to my sister the other day...

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Watership Down by Richard Adams
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Watership Down is one of my favorite books of all time.

I don't really know how to use emoticons, I just never really learned, I try, but alas for a person of my age, I am rather bad at it.

I should watch more soap operas and stop reading Jane Austen. that'll fix my problems.

Jk lol

Did I use that right?

Never mind, back to Watership Down.
I <3 it, very much.

It's a story about rabbits, now don't get all,
"Rabbits? Rabbits? it must be a childish childs story."
I beg to difer. though children might enjoy it.

It's a survival story. kind of a rabbit dystopia story. before dystopia stories were cool.

The story opens with Hazel and his brother Fiver, (Rabbits are bad at counting, anything over five is simply a fiver)

Fiver is counted as weird and timid, his normal brother Hazel looks out for him.

When Fiver senses something horrible will happen

he and Hazel try to warn the other rabbits in their warren

(Warren's are several burrows where rabbits live in large numbers)

Their warren, their society is ruled by a general.

What the General says, goes,

and he doesn't like what Fiver is saying.

Hazel and Fiver along with a group leave in the dead of night,
but their dangers aren't over, no, it's just the beginning

                                   They have nowhere to go, and only a hope to guide them.

They're never safe for long as they find new friends and new treacherous enemies.

There's nowhere to go except a path that is fraught with unspoken dangers.
the only constant thing for our haired friends, is danger.
Their warren, gone, destroyed and the dangers they face much, much worse.
Will they make it?


That's right, these rabbit's just got real.

-The Zebra Reader

Power of the Heir's Passion (Andy Smithson 0.5) By L.R.W Lee

Power of the Heirs Passion By L.R.W Lee
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Power of the Heirs Passion is a short story.

On to the point, this story gives the history of WHY bad things are happening.

Imogenia dies, because her brother wanted to be king and you know... kills her.

Imogenia goes to after life where according to the story, the after life is like an,
well an airport.
At least that's how I think of it.

 You can go to the After After Life(Also how I'm describing it in this),

Unclaimed Baggage, Unfinished Business Office, Guest Services,

Employment Office or a Waiting Area.

I thought that was really funny.

Not the part where Imogenia dies, the airport like place, thing.

Okay! You know what I mean.

She decides for revenge, (though she doesn't think she does)
she wants to teach Kaysan(Her Brother) a lesson.

She must navigate the red tape to send a curse on her land.

But to what end is she willing to go until her anger is quenched?

The Zebra Reader

Game On By R. E. Rowe

Game On By R. E. Rowe

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The beginning was exciting and cool, but it got a little stuck at the half way point.

 The first half of the story felt like the beginning story arc.

At that point I was disappointed, because it was a cool story and I wanted it to be great.

 BUT then it kicked into high gear and it was really great.

So Jayden, Parker and Nora got kidnaped to fight in a intergalactic war.

They escape and rightly so.

There is a war and lives are at stake, Earth is at stake. So the group that is fighting

 to right the wrongs takes them in.

But my problem is this,
 Jayden, Parker and Nora want to lie and steal from them because it's

"not their fight" even though Earth is in danger and they can be vital to stopping this war. 

This is where I thought the story had just gotten tired.

I was having trouble because I couldn't get behind the main characters anymore,
or so I thought.

Long story short (and minus spoilers) big stuff happens and they realized

that it was kind of selfish and they jump in and save the day, many times.

Jayden is a great leader, but he doesn't quite know it yet.

In the heat of battle he just naturally takes the position, but out of battle?

He tosses that position off.
He doesn't want to be a leader (He really does, he doesn't know it yet)

but after that big WHAM he claims it 100%

It was pretty cool.

The thing that really bugged me throughout the story was that it wasn't always defined.

Something would happen, but I wasn't sure what.

 Also I wish was that some of the characters were better defined.

it was a limbo of liking and not liking them.

I had trouble telling if a character was bad or not, it was a little confusing at times

This wasn't a huge problem, if I got lost I for the most part could read a little further and

I could piece it together. 

So, Yeah. I recommend it.

It's fun and cool, some space stories can be cheesy but Game On wasn't at all.

It was an adventure for sure.

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I give Game On, By R. E. Rowe four stars.

The Zebra Reader

Making It Home (Book One in the Time to Time Series) by Suzanne Roche

Making it Home By Suzanne Roche

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Two brothers Max and Henry and their semi resent step sister Peri are the main characters.

as you can imagine, they don't quite get along. They're all struggling in their own way.

Peri's father owns an antique shop Peri loves it, the boys do not.

After school they all meet there because, they do? it's not the most clear about why. maybe because their home is farther away and not in walking distance, so they wait to be picked up.

So sibling squabbles and then bam, they're in the past.

And they don't know exactly how to get back.

We learn that Peri has done this once before but she doesn't know how she came back the first time.

A little unlikely I think, if I went back in time, I would be freaking out. But hey, I've never been back in time so whatever.

The writing style can be a little confusing, not descriptive enough. Like it switches point of view and I don't know who's talking. but that's minor.

The farther I got into the story the more I liked it, I guess I got into the rhythm of the writing.

The beginning meanders a little and the story arch was not very prominent.

But I enjoyed it, it was a fun educational story. It had a lot of history presented in an enjoyable way.

I give Making It Home Three and a half stars. I liked it and I would recommend it.

I am interested in perusing this series.

-The Zebra Raeder

Resurrection of the Phoenix's Grace by L.R.W Lee

 "If the king was part robot and Andy's mom was part cyborg and there was time travel and an alternant universe I think it would make more sense. I'm not knocking it, just saying WHATTT?""

Resurrection of the Phoenix's Grace by L.R.W Lee
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Cuteness, check.
 Still haven't figured out the Andy/Mom/Father/Dad/King thing, check.
More mind with ability to still be blown, check.

Okay all, it's book four, lets put on our seatbelts and prepare for the ride.
Let's go.

Things have been heating up, we have los of  "WHOOOOO!"s
 a couple "WHAAAATTTTT??????"s
a new player come in the game and old characters coming into the lime light.

SO, Andy and his sister visit their grandfather, (On their dads side) and barely miss being captured by Zolts in Andy's world. communication is cut off between Andy and his beloved land as danger approaches. The Zolts are closing in on Andy and he feels angry and abandoned. and also he kind of has a temper tantrum, but wouldn't you if you couldn't communicate with the land which you are heir to rule? I mean, don't we all feel that way?

A subject I breached in the last review was Andy starting to notice girls.
and that continues in this story, it's a little fun, a little off putting and a little scary, just like in real life!

Andy's mom has some mysterious powers that aren't explained yet.
Methuselah picks up some new tricks, well it would be better to say Andy learns more about his sword. It is a epic sword.

The quest starts looking for a long thought dead princess of Cromlech, princess Yara.
Hans, Hannah, Alden and Andy set off to find out if these rumors are true.

And may I break from this review to simply say something concerning princess Yara? You're okay with that? Okay Good.

Ahem.
Andy and Yara Sitting in a tree. K.I.S.S.I.N.G
First comes Andy who nobody knew was heir
Then came Yara who everyone thought was dead
(If you haven't read it yet... I mean you don't know, Yara might not be alive, it could just be a tall tale, (whew! I totally avoided giving away spoilers!))
then come a united kingdom through marriage!
(They're just 13, so no marriage yet... uh, I mean IF Yara was truly alive... (pat on back for nice recovery, me!)

Now back to the review.
Andy's dreams come into play, helping them find... ahem, I mean search for the maybe not dead princess.

If Yara is alive I think she'd have strong powers, like maybe being able to plant suggestions in peoples mind. If she's alive and all that.

The center where Cromlech healing powers is under duress and they find that they have limited time to save it.

-The Zebra Reader