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Review written by: Gabby Mongwa I am personally a very big fan of superhero stories, or people with power joining up to defeat bad guys, which is why I don’t usually read the other side of the story. However, recently I read a book where the protagonist wasn’t on either side but was more of an anti-hero. I don’t usually read many books where the protagonist is like this, despite liking anti-heroes as a character trope, but this series was one that I had been recommended by both the internet and a friend.  Vicious is a book that is told through the chapters jumping between several different points in the timeline through different character perspectives, the first people Sydney as she, along with the protagonist Victor Vale, dig up a dead body. After that prologue, the perspectives switch from between that scene, and the timeline up until then, including how Victor and Sydney met, and Victor’s history with the story’s antagonist: Eli Ever. It is important to mention that Sydney, Vic...

Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco: A Review    By Isa H.           Hunting Prince Dracula is a wonderfully haunting and cleverly crafted mystery novel from Kerri Maniscalco, author of Stalking Jack the Ripper. The novel, which involves the same characters from the aforementioned story, instead follows Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her close companion Thomas Creswell as they travel to Romania to enrol in a forensics course held in a magnificent Romanian castle. The castle and its surrounding areas are rich and alive with a history of scandal, murder and blood, and Audrey and Thomas amuse themselves in the castle’s grand library, its quaint small town and the lessons on postmortems taught by a plethora of esteemed academics. However, the adventure ultimately results in rising levels of paranoia and intrigue as members of the class and the local village end up being discovered dead–dead in the most unusual of circumstances. This then leads ...

  A Review of UnWholly by Neal Shusterman, the Second Part of a Great Series By Felix Lee A sequel to Unwind (of which I did a blog post on previously), UnWholly by Neal Shusterman features a continuation to the story in a futuristic world in which unwanted teenagers are sent to be split apart for their body parts in process called “unwinding”. If you may be interested in reading this series and don’t want any spoilers, I highly recommend reading the first book (Unwind) before reading this blog post. In the beginning of this novel, we are reminded of the whereabouts of the old main characters from the previous book. We see the struggles of Connor, one of the main characters of the old book, as he tries to maintain leadership and order at the Graveyard, a site for runaway Unwind refuge. Stuck in a wheelchair, Risa, another main character from the previous book, is unsure of her of usefulness in the Graveyard after the incident in the first book. Finally, Lev’s reputation...