It made each battle feel like I was a military captain calling shots from atop an overlook, smiling as the enemy fell before me.īut while leveling up the Druid can be uneven, once you’re properly equipped it’s still a complete blast. That becomes even more effective when paired with control abilities like Decrepify, which slows all enemies caught in its web to a crawl. Fighting groups of enemies usually amounts to calling shots from afar while your skeletal minions keep them busy, giving you plenty of time to use your most deadly powers. The fantasy of raising a private militia and making atrophy and death your wicked allies is wonderfully realized, and once I got aboard the dastardly train the Necromancer was all I wanted to play. ![]() Every dead enemy becomes a resource to be spent expanding or healing your zombie army, or turned into an uber-powerful landmine, which in turn creates more corpses to be used. ![]() But once you gain other powerful abilities, like the insanely deadly bone spear or the ability to make corpses explode, it becomes downright stupid. The Necromancer is a maniacal commander of the undead, and mine felt immediately overpowered thanks to his gang of skeletal warriors that draw aggro, tank bosses, and deal decent damage. Recommended by: Barb Langridge, abookandahug.The new classes – the Necromancer and the Druid – are already among my favorites right out the gate. Holm: All's Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson Babymouse: Lights, Camera, Middle School by Jennifer L. Read alikes: Smile by Raina Telgemeier Popularity Papers by Amy Ignatow Sunny Side Up by Jennifer L. This is a really fun read that will intrigue the socially mature 4th and 5th graders and will resonate with the middle schoolers who will recognize the story from the hallways they explore every day from 8-3:00pm. Middle school angst, bullies, those perfect popular people and the rest of us earthlings all struggling to find a voice and a sense of belonging.Įmmie's story is told in a quiet, bland style and Katie's version beams off the page in warm, bright colors filled with energy and confidence. Seems Emmie has written a poem to the guy Katie is going out with. How will she make it until school is over? Katie hears about the poem and struggles with her own feelings. This is a show up to school in your underwear kind of day for Emmie. Except one of the poems falls out of Emmie's bag and is found by the just the wrong person, a guy named Joe who delights in embarrassing Emmie to the max. ![]() They laugh and Emmie puts the poems in her bag for safekeeping. Emmie and her best friend, Brianna, write hilarious, over the top romantic poems to the boys they have like and read them to each other. Emmie coming into school with her stomach in knots and needing to take ten deep breaths to calm herself down as she heads alone to her locker dreading the rest of the day. ![]() Katie starting the day at her locker surrounded by her ten best friends, looking fabulous and excited to start the day. The two girls are in the same school but live in separate worlds. She's super popular, has a million friends asking her for advice, looks perfect all the time, has cool parents and stars on the school volleyball team. Katie is in the seventh grade at the Lakefront Middle School, too. Art is the world where she excels and feels most like herself. Emmie is really shy and quiet and has a hard time speaking up in the world especially at school. Which one do you want to be?Įmmie Douglas is thirteen years old and in the seventh grade at Lakefront Middle School.
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