You know; it is really quite impressive that the Survey Corps has been doing even this well against there Collosus/Armorered/Beast Titans. Human intellect and all those strengths. Oy.
But then… sacrifices and boom sticks.
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Attack on Titan, Vol. 19 Attack on Titan #19
Take the wall! Fight fight Titan fight! Crazy new technology to level the playing field. Fun times.
Among the more fascinating bits is finding out even more crazy things that the Human/Titans can do with their powers. It remains believable but insane levels of power. You do sort of get why they view ‘normal’ humanity as something less to be eradicated.
Rebel Angels Gemma Doyle #2
Goodness. That’s quite a story.
While A Great and Terrible Beauty primarily focused around the boarding school life with hints of a relatively benign magic (with a fair few hints of darkness under the surface), Rebel Angels expands the world both to the greater society of the time and delves much deeper into the dark, creepy bits of the Realms–not the least of which is Pippa. Dead… but not? It’s a way to deal with loss, but there’s no way this is possible going to end well.
Attack on Titan, Vol. 18 Attack on Titan #18
Attack on Titan, Vol. 17 Attack on Titan #17
Things continue to heat up (heh). Attack by a crawling mess of a Titan on the wall versus Eren and a bundle of explosives. Historia ascending. The Beast Titan. It’s a crazy story.
The Hiding Place
The Hiding Place is an interesting book. In a nutshell, it’s the most historical account of Corrie ten Boom–a older, unmarried devoutly Christian woman who lived in Holland before, during, and a bit after World War II. It tells the story of how she became the center of one group hiding and getting Jews out of the city and eventually paid the price for it.
It’s (unfortunately) not a story we haven’t heard before, but I don’t think I’ve ever read one from the perspective of a devout Christian. It’s interesting to see how her religion drives her decisions, giving her the strength and hope to overcome all manner of problems throughout her life.
Attack on Titan, Vol. 16 Attack on Titan #16
Man it just keeps getting crazier and crazier. On one hand, we have more and more human on human violence in a giant underground columns set piece, perfect for their vertical maneuvering equipment.
Tales of Nezura: Book 1: The Zevolra
The skeleton that was polishing with a brush stopped and waved.
“Hello! You must be Maximilian! Your uncle here is delighted to be hosting you.” The teeth on the skull curved up. “The name’s Conner, in case you were wondering.”
“They can talk?” I whispered to my uncle.
The Borrowers Afield The Borrowers #2
“It’s so awful and sad,” she once admitted to Tom Goodenough, “to belong to a race that no sane person believes in.”
The Borrowers was delightful, introducing us to a family of tiny ‘Borrowers’ who live in the floor, ‘borrow’ all manner of tiny things, and try their best to keep their existence a secret. Unfortunately, that all comes to an end at the end of book 1, sending them off into the great outdoors.
The Midnight Library
Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices… Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?
Well that’s a surprisingly wonderful story. It’s something of a mix of It’s a Wonderful Life and Borges’ The Library of Babel. Nora Seed finds herself in a dark place, between life and death–and that place just happens to look to her like a library. A library with a book for every life she could have lived, every choice she could have made.