Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Kingdom Hearts: Don’t Chase the Dream

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance by Tomoco Kanemaki

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Another light novel adaptation in the increasingly convoluted Kingdom Hearts series! It will always amuse me that there are technically 3 main games in this series, but if that’s all you played / read then you will be very confused as all of the offshoots are relevant to the plot. This is a novelisation of a game that first appeared on the Nintendo 3DS – which is the entire reason for the name – and which has subsequently appeared on PS4 and Xbox. Story-wise this […]

And Kingdom Hearts just gets more complex…

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded by Tomoco Kanemaki

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Back to reading Kingdom Hearts novels for games I never got to play! It’s interesting to me that there are people who are fans of Kingdom Hearts but ignore any game that isn’t a big number – to them it was a 14 year gap between Kingdom Hearts 2 and 3 and then they were confused because they had missed between 8 and 11 games in-between (depending on how you count “remixes”). The original Coded was released in 2008 and remixed in 2010 as Re:coded. […]

Kingdom Hearts: Mickey Mouse kicks ass!

Kingdom Hearts 2: The Novel, Volume 1 by Tomoco Kanemaki

Kingdom Hearts 2: The Novel, Volume 2 by Tomoco Kanemaki

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories by Tomoco Kanemaki

Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days by Tomoco Kanemaki

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep by Tomoco Kanemaki

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Introduction A long time ago (17 years!) Square Enix got together with Disney to create a game that combined characters from Square’s famous role playing games (Final Fantasy) and characters from classic Disney canon. The aim was to get new audiences for both companies work by connecting them via a story featuring a young protagonist (Sora, aged 14 in the first game and still only just about 16 in the latest) and his adventures. That game was Kingdom Hearts and we’re still here 17 years […]



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