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Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson

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Tress of the Emerald Sea is the first of 4 novels from Sanderson's "Secret Project" which he wrote during the "lockdown" caused by the pandemic of that evil virus whose name should not be not mentioned (as if it were Voldemort himself, damn it). To get those novels into the light of day, Sanderson launched a Kickstarter campaign that turned out to be the most successful ever. In 24 hours, the campaign reached its goal, and by the end earned an incredible 41.7 million dollars. That's how the world got Tress, The Frugal Wizard's Handbook: for Surviving Medieval England and 2 more books yet to be published. Tress and the Handbook were published in Serbia by MIPL and you can get both books on their website. And speaking of the release and books appearance... Oh my gods and aliens. MIPL set the standards. The book is a little larger than usual, but the story and illustrations compensate for the slight discomfort during reading caused by the size. As far as I...

The Whisper Man - Alex North

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In Featherank, 5 boys disappeared only 4 bodies were found, Frank Carter was arrested and convicted. A case that will haunt Detective Pete Willis for a long time. 20 years later, the boy disappears, detective Willis is haunted by the ghosts of the past due to similarities with the case he worked on 20 years ago, detective Amanda Beck is in a race against time, and widower Tom Kennedy moves to Featherbank with his son Jake. For the two of them, it is a new beginning and a way to cope with the loss of their mother and wife. At least that's what Tom thinks, because soon after the move, Jake starts behaving strangely, talking to imaginary friends more and more often and drawing scary drawings... All of them, and even the late wife who is only a ghost in this book, are connected in a strange way. That connection that will lead to resolution and redemption for some of them. It is a well-known fact that with at the beginning of the pandemic of the virus, which name wich I will not write o...

Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky

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If I was ever afraid of spiders, and I am, I'm even more afraid of them now. I am asking the scientists not to play! Spiders are not supposed to be highly intelligent space-traveling beings. The earth is dying. The Brynn Two team, led by Dr. Avran Kern, works to terraform planets in order to save the human race. And just as they were nearing their goal, Murphy intervened in their plans. Instead of monkeys, the nanovirus settles into spiders. Thousands of years later, the earth is destroyed, and the ark-ship Gilgamesh arrives at the green planet of Dr. Kern. And again Murphy takes matters into his own hands. The novel is written from two perspectives, human and evolutionary spiders. People are almost stereotypical. They are looking for a way to save humanity by populating one of the planets that the Old Empire terraformed. And even in the relentless race against time, when their survival is at stake, the worst in man comes to the surface. People fight among themselves. Everyone has ...