Review: A Beginner's Guide to Leveling Up - Elizabeth Agyemang - September 2026 I'll admit it I picked this one up expecting a fun, low-stakes gaming story. What I got instead was a graphic novel that quietly snuck up on me and left me a little misty-eyed on my couch, coffee gone cold beside me. A Beginner's Guide to Leveling Up follows Lexie, a sixth grader who had big plans for this school year: new clubs, the ideal lunch table, and after-school gaming sessions with her best friends. Instead, she's dealing with shifting friendships and the very real, very heavy grief of losing her grandfather. If you've ever watched a kid try to hold it together while everything around them changes at once, you'll recognize that ache immediately. Here's where the story does something special. Lexie finds a journal hidden among her grandfather's belongings .  full of cryptic notes and cheat codes for an unfinished video game he'd been building called Warrior...

This past weekend, the BayofGeddon Expo, hosted by www.armageddonexpo.com , brought together fans from all over the world to celebrate their love for pop culture, music, anime, and comics. It was the perfect event for unleashing the inner geek in all of us. The BayofGeddon Expo was a two-day event, held on the 25th and 26th of March 2023, at the Baypark Trustpower Stadium . The event featured a variety of exhibits, panels, and interactive experiences, providing attendees with the chance to immerse themselves in their favorite fandoms. One of the highlights of the BayofGeddon Expo was the cosplay contest. Fans dressed up as their favorite characters from movies, TV shows, video games, and comics, and paraded around the convention center to showcase their costumes. The contest was judged by a panel of experts, and the winners were awarded prizes for their creativity and attention to detail. The expo also featured a number of special guests from the world of entertainment. Fans had the o...

Join us for the cover reveal of Win My Heart by Lauren Helms. Fans who love Nerdy Romances will sink their teeth into this steamy, secret relationship, best friend’s sibling, game girl romance. Keep scrolling for more details about this sexy cover. Title: Win My Heart Author: Lauren Helms Release Date: 7/7/2022 Genres: Contemporary Romance Trope: Secret Relationship Romance, Best Friend’s Sibling, Nerdy Romance Bernie When it comes to gaming,I’m a pro.When it comes to my love life?That’s a different story. I’ve been crushing on my best friend’s older brother forever.In return, he’s kept me in the friend zone for way too long.Then things change between us.And I get to see a whole new,And incredibly sexy side to him. But, he wants to keep things between us a secret. WadeI made a promise to my brother.One I refused to break.Until now. I’ve ignored my feelings for the girl for way too long.And the more time we spend together,The harder I find myself falling. There’s just one proble...

Review: These Deadly Games - Diana Urban - February 2022 After reading her debut novel All Your Twisted Secrets, I was excited to read her new book These Deadly Games. For fans like myself who love YA thrillers, then this is the book for you as we meet Crystal and her five friends who are all preparing for a gaming tournament. The tournament started with a team of six, but the rules changed and now only five of them can enter. The group decided that the first five to reach a 20K score can represent their team which means one will miss out. During the book, it really will become each man or woman for themselves and some are even willing to kill for it. Crystal Donovan who is our main female character - finds her sister kidnapped and now someone known as Anonymous1 is sending her on a set of dangerous games and if she doesn't follow Anonymous rules then her sister is dead. I have to admit about 100 pages towards the ending, I did guess who Anonymous 1 was, and then it all made sen...

The Between Ryan Leslie Published by: Parliament House Publication date: April 27th 2021 Genres: Adult, Horror While landscaping his backyard, ever-conscientious Paul Prentice discovers an iron door buried in the soil. His childhood friend and perpetual source of mischief, Jay Lightsey, pushes them to explore what’s beneath. When the door slams shut above them, Paul and Jay are trapped in a between-worlds place of Escher-like rooms and horror story monsters, all with a mysterious connection to a command-line, dungeon explorer computer game from the early ’80s called The Between. Paul and Jay find themselves filling roles in a story that seems to play out over and over again. But in this world, where their roles warp their minds, the biggest threat to survival may not be the Koŝmaro, risen from the Between’s depths to hunt them; the biggest danger may be each other. Goodreads / Amazon / iBooks / Kobo / Google Play — Author Bio: Ryan Leslie oversees research fo...

Review: Trolled - Book #8 Internet Famous Collection - M.K Moore - September 2020 After enjoying the Modern Princess Collection which was set at Camelot University and was a take on several different fairytales, when I read that the authors had another collection called Internet Famous. As soon as I also saw that it was related to internet culture, that was also held an immediate interest in reading the series. Trolled is based on the fairytale of Snow White. In Trolled we meet Jensen whom as a teenager his parents were killed and he ended up as an 18-year-old looking after his younger brothers. Something Jensen was good at was gaming and so he began streaming and built himself an empire and a great following to help support his family. Of course, streaming doesn't come without its trolls and one in particular Jessica has captured Jensen's attention and soon Jensen starts to game just so he can be trolled by Jessica. What will happen though when he learns that she lives clos...