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1 week ago | 
geekdad.com | Robin Brooks |Jonathan H. Liu
I Am Raven is the follow-up to Alastair Chisholm’s I Am Wolf. It picks up almost immediately where the action left off. In this book, Chisholm reveals many answers to the questions posed in book one. We learn more about the Brann, Coll, and the world they inhabit. A new implacable villain appears. This is a direct follow-up to I Am Wolf and should not be read without reading that book first.
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2 weeks ago | 
geekdad.com | Robin Brooks
“Ten strangers. An old dark house. A killer picking them off one by one.” So starts the blurb of C.B. Everett’s The Other People. Throw into the mix a missing girl who needs to be saved and you have the recipe for a dark and compelling thriller. The Other People is a riff on the classic And Then There Were None format. Ten people wake up in an old stately home. A woman, Amanda, interrupts their dinner to tell them that they must save a girl from a serial killer.
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2 weeks ago | 
geekdad.com | Robin Brooks |Garth Sundem
“Ten strangers. An old dark house. A killer picking them off one by one.” So starts the blurb of C.B. Everett’s The Other People. Throw into the mix a missing girl who needs to be saved and you have the recipe for a dark and compelling thriller. The Other People is a riff on the classic And Then There Were None format. Ten people wake up in an old stately home. A woman, Amanda, interrupts their dinner to tell them that they must save a girl from a serial killer.
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2 weeks ago | 
geekdad.com | Robin Brooks |Tom Fassbender |Rory Bristol |Ken Denmead
Douglas Adams once made an excellent joke about telephone booth sanitizers – science fictional cleaners doing an important job that went unnoticed. Now, A.G. Rodriguez has given us Johnny Gomez, a janitor or “Space Broom” on an interplanetary cruise ship. He’s a man who spends his days deep in drudgery and alien excrement. When Johnny stumbles on a small “data-chit,” his life becomes dangerously interesting. The brown-stuff he’s wading through becomes more metaphorical but a lot more deadly.
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3 weeks ago | 
geekdad.com | Robin Brooks
All Better Now is the new YA novel from Neal Shusterman. As he has demonstrated with his Unwind and Scythe series, Shusterman is the master of hi-concept science fiction. In All Better Now, the premise is simple: What if the world was hit by another pandemic? More than that though, what would happen if surviving the pandemic made you happier? “Crown Royale” is sweeping the globe. It kills about 1 in 20 people, but those who survive experience utter contentment.
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1 month ago | 
geekdad.com | Robin Brooks |Jenny Bristol |Ken Denmead |Tom Fassbender
As Dissolution opens, Maggie wakes up in a hospital bed, next to a man who wants to hear her story. Her memory is hazy but she gradually pieces together what has happened to her. The mysterious man, Hassan, helped her break her husband out of a care home. The home, Hassan tells her, was not helping Stanley’s dementia but causing it. But where is Stanley now? In between Maggie’s revelations, we see snippets of Stanley’s early life.
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1 month ago | 
geekdad.com | Paul Benson |Robin Brooks
With Game Theory Tables’ Crafted for Connections Kickstarter campaign well under way, I thought it was time to take a look at one of the newer tables on offer this year. Just last week, an update they posted revealed that the Origins 2.0 LIT had become available as one of the table choices you could pledge for in the campaign. And wouldn’t you know it, but that’s exactly the table that recently arrived at my door.
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1 month ago | 
geekdad.com | Robin Brooks |Judd Schorr |Rory Bristol
Blacklight Born is the third and final installment of Alexander Darwin’s Combat Codes Trilogy. If you’re looking for a high-energy action fantasy with a strong cast of characters, then definitely consider checking the series out.
If you haven’t read the first two books in the series, then don’t read any further. You can check out my review of the first book, Combat Codes, here.
Grievar’s Blood left the world of the Grievar’s on a knife edge.
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1 month ago | 
geekdad.com | Jonathan H. Liu |Corrina Lawson |Will James |Robin Brooks
Today’s stack is all about anxiety and worry and depression, but from some very different perspectives. Two are young adult novels that posit two very different solutions, and one is a kid’s book that helps kids navigate big feelings. HappyHead by Josh SilverSebastian Seaton just wants his family to be proud of him, but he’s always afraid he doesn’t measure up the way his little sister does. She listens to the right music, hangs out with the right people, and is just much more sure about herself.
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1 month ago | 
geekdad.com | Jonathan H. Liu |Robin Brooks |Brad Moon
Delve deeper into the world of Aughmoore in this dungeon crawl campaign. What Is Tiny Epic Dungeons Adventures? Tiny Epic Dungeons Adventures is a cooperative dungeon-crawling game for 1 to 4 players, ages 14 and up, and takes about 60–90 minutes to play each chapter. It’s currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, with a pledge level of $35 for a copy of the game. Other pledge tiers are available, like a $20 print-and-play, or the $49 deluxe bundle that includes an expansion.
