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Critics' Corner E pic is one book of a triology. In Epic, the world of New Earth bans violence, and makes three games as an alternative to violence: Epic, Saga, and Edda. Epic is the main game, which are all alternatives to fighting. The game is used to solve all conflicts. A boy named Erik plays the game for revenge after his friend, Bjorn, is forced to duel his mother, erasing every trace of her character. In Erik's quest for revenge, his characters in the Epic games keep dying. Eventually, he creates a new character, a female. This is strange because they normally stick with their own gender. Erik thinks Cindella, his new character, is doomed. But she lasts much longer than expected. Now for Saga. After destroying Epic, Erik was offered to keep Cindella in Saga. Erik later finds out the game has become a universe. The book is centered around Ghost, a female NPC, who is more like a human. Finally, Edda. I'm not he book, The Fault in Our Stars, is great for that far into it, but it's people who enjoy books that are pessimis- good so far. I say it's 5 tic, but have happy moments in them. This book stars out of 5 stars. is about a girl, Hazel Grace, who has cancer. She befriends and becomes the girlfriend to Gus. To- - Thomas gether they talk about death and the point of Wilbur themselves. They both go to see the author of An Imperial Inflection. There they really bond and grow closer. In the end, Gus gets sick once more and is in great pain. Finally he dies and Hazel feels horrible and destroyed. I like this book because I like how the author of this book faced the real fact of life and did not write a lie about a perfect life. The author is very good at describing how the real world is with fictional characters. Even though this book can be extremely morbid at certain points, I would give the book four out of five stars. T - Patrick Rodriguez