Kevin Lau

My journey into the world of Stephen King continues! In the year 1981, a man is found on the beach of Maine, dead. No one knows who he is or how he got there. Even the cause of death is a mystery. Nearly 25 years later in 2005, no one has been able to solve the case, the most information anyone got was that the man from Colorado. Upon request to their new intern, two long-time reporters who helped with the "Colorado Kid" case tell their take on the tale, giving the intern all the information they could dig up on this unsolved case. After years of the "Colorado Kid" case being stuck at a dead end, could a young, fresh mind solve the case? Yes, this is written by Stephen King. No, this is not a horror novel or 800+ pages long. It's a 184-page (3 3/4 hours on audiobook) murder mystery  that keeps the reader trying to puzzle what happened to the Colorado Kid. How did he get from Colorado to Maine in the short amount of time according to the evidence gathered...

I read the whole book in one day. I think you can guess what my opinion on this book is. Much like The Demigod Files , The Demigod Diaries  collects four short stories tying into both the Percy Jackson & the Olympians  series as well as Heroes of Olympus . Alongside the four short stories, there are also artwork for locations of the stories, a couple games, and a short interview with George and Martha, the two snakes attached to the staff of Hermes, God of thieves. The first story, The Diary of Luke Castellan , is perhaps the biggest highlight of the collection. The excerpt from Luke's diary tells of an adventure Luke and Thalia had five years before The Lightning Thief . In this adventure, Luke and Thalia must escape a house full of monsters and mythical traps. It gives readers a deeper insight of the character of Luke, the story being told through his eyes. The story also covers Thalia's finding of her shield, Aegis, and the bronze dagger Annabeth later wields in...

Return to the mythical world on Percy Jackson in the spin-off series, The Heroes of Olympus ! After being nearly killed on a field trip to the Grand Canyon by a bunch of storm spirits, Jason, Piper, and Leo are saved by a couple of other teenagers and taken to Camp Half-Blood, the safest place for kids like them: demigods. Piper and Leo are shocked to find this out, but Jason senses that he knew this already, but he isn't sure. He had woken up on the bus on the field trip next to Piper and Leo with no memory of who he is or how he got there, he just knew something wasn't right. When Hera, the goddess of marriage, contacts Jason and tells him she's imprisoned, he and his new friends must save her by the winter solstice, less than a week away. As Jason struggles leading the trio even though he has no memory of his past, Leo tries his best to help with the quest and lighten the mood whereas Piper holds a secret that could kill them all. Told through third-perspectives ...

"Hello, my name is Shawn Spencer, official psychic of the Santa Barbara Police Department, and this is my partner, Gus 'Silly Pants' Jackson." Little did I realize before watching it, Psych  was the TV show with everything I could ask for. Super-observant slacker Shawn Spencer tips off the Santa Barbara Police Department to the point where the officials believes he may be a part of the crimes he gives info of. They call him in to interrogate him and to find out where he gets his sources, because, frankly, no one should be able to get all that information just by watching the news. Desperate not go to prison, Shawn tells the cops that he got the information through visions, then claims himself to be a psychic. To keep up the psychic act and earn some cash, Shawn brings in Burton "Gus" Guster and opens up a psychic detective agency called Psych, where they are hired by the department and public many times to help solve numerous cases, mostly those of ...

My only regret when reading this book was that I didn't read it before I read  The Last Olympian . Percy Jackson's life isn't exactly the easiest. Being the son of a Greek god, Percy has to deal with monsters hunting him down, the gods of Olympus wanting his help with their own problems, and might even have to help his demigod cousins as well. The Demigod Files  is a collection of short stories tying into the  Percy Jackson & the Olympians series and also builds up to the finale. In the first story, The Stolen Chariot , Percy must help Clarisse retrieve her father's stolen chariot from her immortal siblings, the minor gods of fear. In the second story, The Bronze Dragon , an innocent game of Camp Half-Blood's Capture the Flag turns into Don't Get Killed By The Bronze Dragon when Percy Jackson and Chris Beckendorf accidentally stumble upon the dragon's remains. Finally, there's The Sword of Hades , in which Percy, Thalia, and Nico are summoned ...

Don't judge me. I only read this because it was the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Novel of 2014. However, I have to disagree. Meet the Sinclairs: A perfect family. No one is poor. No one is starving. No one is a criminal. When seventeen-year-old Cadance Sinclair returns to the family summer island of Beechwood after her accident that caused amnesia, she notices things have changed since she was last there two years ago. At least, from what she could remember and what her mother told her. Cadence tries to have a fun summer, with her cousins: eccentric Johny and soft Mirren. She wants to get back together with a long ago love, Gat. However, Cadence knows that information is being kept from her about what happened on the summer she can barely remember. Something big. So big, in fact, it might just blow your mind.* I'm not in the target audience, but I'll try to make my review as unbiased as possible. However, I really enjoyed the main  plot (the part...

It's sad when a good series ends. You're left there to say good-bye to the characters, good-bye to the adventures, good-bye to their world. According to The Great Prophecy, something big happens when Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, turns sixteen: He would have to make a choice that will either save or destroy Olympus and our world. Unfortunately for Percy, his sixteenth birthday is only a week away. Even more unfortunate, Kronos, the Titan Lord of Time, is almost fully revived and is using Luke's body as his temporary shell, and all efforts to stop him from reaching New York only end in losses. Just when things couldn't possibly get worse for Percy, the gods leave Olympus unattended to stop the rampaging storm known as Typhon, leaving Percy and his friends to fend Olympus themselves and take on Kronos demigod-to-Titan. The perfect final installment to an amazing series, The Last Olympian  delivers explosive action and touching moments as readers say farewel...