Monday, November 5, 2012

For The Win



       For The Win is about online gaming and some people turn virtual gold into real money. For The Win follows a couple of different gamers that are working around the games security to shuttle gold out of severs and into the virtual world where it can easily be sold to any buyers. For The Win follows the virtual movement of labor laws that the Webblies are trying to input so that gold farmers will be able to get fair wages. All over the world people are being paid to destroy an enemies farmers, taking all their loot and weapons. Gamers everywhere begin to rise to help protect gold farmers and attack any opposing armies sent out with the sole intention to destroy enemy business. For The Win displays naked the injustice that some workers suffer because they work on the internet and some people believe this to mean their work is meaningless and has no effect.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Charmed Life


       Eric "Cat" Chant and his sister Gwendolyn, a powerful witch move, to Chrestomanci castle after spending years with a foster parent, Ms. Sharp. Gwendolyn tries to use her witchcraft to force Chrestomanci to appreciate her powers by doing great feats of magic that cripple his gardens and endanger his children. Chrestomanci ignores Gwendolyn until she crosses the line and Chrestomanci takes away her witchcraft as a punishment. Gwendolyn runs away to a parallel world, leaving Cat behind and a replacement Gwendolyn, called Janet gets thrust into Eric's world to balance the sudden exit. Gwendolyn has always controlled Cat, ordering him around and never sparing a thought for him. Since Janet replaced Gwendolyn Eric has seen how a real sister is supposed to act and when Gwendolyn returns he fights back against here witchcraft with a seemingly newly found power.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The Clockwork Angel



       Clockwork Angel is Cassandra Clare's newest series featuring the Shadowhunters. The series focuses on Tessa an ordinary girl who has recently lost her last living relative, so she boards a ship to London to meet her brother Nathan. Tessa is captured by a pair of sisters by the name of the Dark sisters, who had claimed to be acquaintances of his. Tessa is tortured by the Dark sisters as they try to teach her the power to shape shift, a power only a few are born with. Shadowhunters Will and Jem rescue Tessa while their on the hunt for evidence of The Pandemonian Club's nefarious activities. The Shadowhunters and Tessa infiltrate the Pandemonian Club's leader's home, which also happens to be the den of a violent group of vampires. At the social gathering Tessa is disguised as a vampire and Will is her subjugate, the main event happens to feature Nathan as a source of food and entertainment for the vampires.

Monday, October 22, 2012

The Ruins of Gorlan

 
       Will has always been mediocre at everything he does, he isn't good at sword-fighting or being obedient, all he's good at is climbing and stealing. As the day when he will choose his profession comes this fact becomes glaringly obvious. When choosing day comes around all Will's orphanage friends are chosen first and when its his turn a mysterious Ranger shows up and chooses him. From the day Will is chosen he begins training to shoot a bow and hide in the shadows. As Will learns that a Ranger protects the kingdom and surveils potential threats. The exiled Morgarath, Lord of the Mountains of Rain and Night, is preparing to attack their kingdom and this time he will not give in, even when trading life for life is the only option.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

I am Number Four


       Nine of them came here. They look like us. They talk like us. They live among us, but they are not us. They came here with powers we find extraordinary, to escape the doomed fate of a planet. They came here to run from their enemies, thinking only of the survival of a race. They have been followed here and their destruction is imminent. They killed number one in Malaysia. Number two died in England. Number three died in England. Next is John, he is number four, if he dies they will hunt down the rest of them, one by one. They will run for as long as they can, hiding in the shadows, but they know that there time is only temporary.