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This was a great prequel to the Minecraft Dungeons game. This book was also probably one of the best written books I've read this year.
This was about as good as I would expect from a Minecraft novel could be. My son liked it and I didn't mind reading it at all.
Well written to both make the villain of the game relatable, but not at all excused.
Read with my 10 and 8 year old. This is the prequel to the game: Minecraft Dungeons. They enjoyed it. It was quite ‘wordy’ with the dialogue (for reading out loud) and I’d say it’s better for middle school age.
ive played the video game and I can now see how the arch-illager came to be through an exciting adventure of undead and redstone goodness
A "tragic" origin story, that last sentence fragment gleaned from the book's jacket notes. Crazy for a Minecraft book, and I've read/listened to four of them now, and this one explores the beginnings of a major character. Not being a Minecraft player, I was curious as to who this Arch-Illager was. Upon looking him up, it all made sense: he is the first major antagonist in the Minecraft universe.In the beginning, his name was Archie, a benign villager. Constantly being bullied by a fellow village...
Świetna recenzja:"Książka nawiązuje do jednej z nowszych edycji gry - Minecraft: Dungeons - która jest nie grą kreatywną, a przygodową grą akcji z elementami RPG, w której rozgrywkę prowadzi się samotnie lub w grupie, a jej celem jest uratowanie wioski i pokonanie Arcyzłosadnika.Czytelnik ma okazję poznać zarówno mieszkańców wioski, jak i złosadników i bohaterów. Poznając każdą z - nazwijmy to - nacji, poznaje też jej styl życia i dążenia, motywacje i spojrzenie na świat. Zaś poznanie to każe zw...
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PERFEKTE UNTERHALTUNG OB FÜR VORLESER ODER ERSTLESER…Als Mom eines 15 jährigen weiss man was hipp ist oder nicht, bekommt man in Auge für so genannte pädagogische Spiele und manche sie weniger Sympathie bei den Erwachsenen erzeugen!Minecraft gehört seit Beginn des Einzug in unser zu Hause zu den Favoriten, so komplex und kreativ.Insbesondere jetzt auch die Möglichkeit zur Lektüre rund um diese Welt zu greifen .Ich konnte sofort voller Begeisterung zu dem Buch greifen, wurde in eine packende als
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Recommendation: An interesting conceit for people who play a lot of Minecraft, but which can't decide whether it's for children or youth.Critique: I liked this book, but it could have been a lot better. The author starts with a great conceit - let's tell a Minecraft story from the point of view of an Illager (hostile reavers that raid villages in the Minecraft videogame)! It'll be a sympathetic story showing how he became a master villain! This isn't a new idea, of course, especially in films su...
Pretty well done. My son appreciated this well fleshed out backstory for one of his favorite games.
I picked this book up at Walmart as a joke, but when I started reading it, I realized how genuinely good it is. I am more than pleasantly surprised, I am elatedly shocked.It has one of my favorite concepts: good guy goes bad. The character development was so believable, and throughout the story I kept rooting for two outcomes with equal passion: I wanted Archie to return to the light, but I also wanted to see complete and total carnage viewable from even the max rendering distance.I will definit...
Well Told!Playing the game and this was the perfect companion to that experience. The cinematic made you feel a bit bad for Archie but this book knocked it out of the map (heh). Very enjoyable read!
I really liked this book and I think it ties perfectly into the video game. I recommend this book to anyone who likes Minecraft dungeons or wants to know the origins. I think Matt Forbeck did a really good job explaining why in the world a tiny little Illager has an all-powerful orb and army of Illagers and undead mobs. I loved this book and it's one of the few I can read again and again and have the same experience I had the first time!
Matt Forbeck did a really nice job humanizing Archie as a tragic villain. Totally understandable and further novelizations of this story would be absolutely stunning. Loads of fun characters and circumstances just begging to be expanded on.My kiddo (8y/o) was a little less enthused once Archie started becoming meaner, and some of the complexities of the Orb’s influence over Archie were lost in translation, but still a fun nighttime read-together book.
This was my least favorite of all the Minecraft novels so far, but I’m guessing that’s mostly due to a lack of context. I put off reading this one until last because I’ve never played Dungeons, and I feel like it doesn’t hold up as well as a stand alone novel. It seemed like a setup for something else rather than its own story, but if you’ve played Dungeons it might be a nice backstory for something you already enjoy.
Brings the game alive!My son and I took turns reading this together. Compared to other books in this series, this one was very well written and helped bring the Dungeons game alive. I have never played but now I understand what my son is saying when he goes on and on about the game. ;)
This is the first in a new Minecraft series aimed at Tweens focusing on Archie an Illager who is thrown under the bus by the only other Illager survivor of a clash first with Zombies and then the hero Karl. He is kicked out of the Illager compound and he is taken in by Villagers who then throw him out when Karl appears and interferes with Archie's peaceful existence. He then comes upon the Orb of Dominance which gives Archie increable power and the Orb is able to enter Archie's thoughts and enco...
nice job matt forbeck! cant wait for the sequel. (PLEASE tell me you are writing a sequel)
