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Ar tonelico – The Girl Who Continues to Sing at the End of the World

Ar tonelico – The Girl Who Continues to Sing at the End of the World summary: After the battle with Mir ended and the world was saved, Lyner and his friends were in the middle of a journey to gather the [feelings] they needed to craft a Song that would reach everyone in the world. However, while the world should be peaceful again, various strange incidents have started happening. Items produced through Grathmelding suddenly rose in price due to a shortage of materials, Tenba dismissed a large portion of their Reyvateil workforce, and this in turn caused these Reyvateils to begin falling into emotional instability one after other. And finally, the Tenba troops have started a war with the Reyvateils at Skuwat Village, while a “mysterious ent.i.ty” that seems able to control the common subconscious of the Reyvateils seeks a confrontation with Lyner. The first novelization of the popular PlayStation 2 RPG of the same name!

# fantasy # sci-fi

And the Mountains Echoed

And the Mountains Echoed summary: An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else.   Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations.    In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most.    Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe—from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos—the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.

# historical # sci-fi

A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns summary: After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today.   Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved cla.s.sic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.   Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them—in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul—they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman’s love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.   A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.

# historical # sci-fi

Ame no Hi no Iris

Ame no Hi no Iris summary: The story is centred around a cute android who initially had a happy life with her master who dearly loved her. But she was then struck by a series of misfortunes and ended up in a robot-equivalent of concentration camp. Through experiencing and witnessing the sufferings towards herself as well as the people/robots around her, she eventually gained a better appreciation of life.

# drama # psychological # romance # sci-fi # shounen # slice of life # tragedy

Ark

Ark summary: Kim Hyun Woo lived the life of the wealthy thanks to his parents. But one day, he received a phone call informing him of a traffic accident which involved his parents. His father had died and his mother was hospitalized in critical condition. The normal life he once knew, collapsed… They sold their house, cancelled various insurance plans, and moved to a one room apartment. And after a few years, Hyun Woo spends four to six hours tending to his mother and worked to pay for her medical bills. One day, one of his Instructors recommended him for position in a company called Global Exos, who made an announcement of making history with the newest technological invention.

# action # adventure # comedy # fantasy # martial arts # sci-fi

Bu Sha

Bu Sha summary: Liola—the best a.s.sa.s.sin in his world—has vowed to kill no more. He was being chased by an a.s.sa.s.sination organization when he accidentally dropped into a parallel universe: through a dimensional gate and into poor teenager Kaiser’s apartment. Instead of going to the government shelter for lost dimensional travelers, Liola and Kaiser wind up going to school together. Liola has been trying his best to live the life of an ordinary person, but after certain things happen one after the other, he begins to realize that being an ordinary person could be harder than being an a.s.sa.s.sin.

# action # adventure # comedy # drama # fantasy # martial arts # mecha # school life # sci-fi # seinen # slice of life

Dark Matter

Dark Matter summary: “Are you happy with your life?”    Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.    Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.    Before a man Jason’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.”    In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.   Is it this world or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could’ve imagined—one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.   From the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human—a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.

# horror # sci-fi