#the revenant games

[oracleofmadness]

Wow! What a treat! I loved the action, a sprinkling of romance, the supernatural elements, and that cliffhanger!!!!

Bly is 17 and is holding herself together pretty well in a world dominated by witches and vampires. During the Revenant Games, for 2 weeks, the humans are allowed the upper hand. Not that that makes things too easy. As the rules go, whomever captures the most powerful witch gets to resurrect someone from the dead (which is Bly's plan), and whomever captures the Vampire gets Immortality (which also has a story).

This was exciting. It had great characters that I loved learning about throughout the book. Also, the details about this world that the author included really took this next level for me.

Out March 19, 2024!

Thank you, Netgalley and Publisher, for this Arc!

#book #bookish #books #bookworm #currently reading #book review #read #bookblogger #reading #fantasy #witch books #vampires #fantasy books #fantasy series #the revenant games #margie fuston

[ash-and-books]

Rating: 1/5

Book Blurb: All of Us Villains meets Kingdom of the Wicked in this action-packed fantasy following a teen determined to win the competition held by warring vampire and witch kingdoms, only to develop complicated feelings for the vampire she’s supposed to hand over.

Blood is survival for seventeen-year-old Bly, who lives in the poverty-stricken human villages caught between enemy vampire and witch kingdoms. Most of the time, vampires and witches live in uneasy truce, buying human blood for their food and spells. But for two weeks a year, the ceasefire dissolves, and they hold the Revenant Games.

Any human can play in the games for either the witches or the vampires. Alongside life-changing riches, the witches will raise one person from the dead for whoever captures the highest-ranking vampire. In turn, the vampires offer immortality to whoever captures the most powerful witch. For most humans, the games are a ticket out of poverty. For Bly, it’s a chance to get back her dead sister, Elise, and save the life of her dying best friend, Emerson.

Together, she and Emerson forge a dangerous plan to play both sides and win both prizes: resurrection for Elise and immortality for Emerson. But when the vampire they capture stirs a passion in Bly that she hasn’t felt in a long time, she’ll have to make a choice: her sister or the boy who’s shown her there’s more to life than just survival.

Review:

Hunger Games but make it with vampires, witches, and humans! How far would you go to bring someone back to life? Would you enter into a deadly tournament that could kill you? Bly is a seventeen year old girl who lives in a world where witches use blood for magic and vampires need blood for food, and in this world there is truce amongst humans, vampires, and witches. But for two weeks a year, the ceasefire dissolves and an event known as the Revenant Games occurs. The Revenant Games lets any human play in the games for either the witches or the vampires and the prize is wealthy beyond your imagination and with witches will raise one person from the dead for whoever captures the highest-ranking vampire and in turn, the vampires will offer immortality to whoever captures the most powerful witch. Bly has been secretly in love with her childhood best friend Emerson and plans on confessing to him and asking him to run away with her, her younger sister Elise is their mother's favorite, and they are all living in poverty. When Elise helps Bly pick up food to be sold, she accidentally touches a spelled mushroom that was owned by a witch... in turn killing her and Bly feels guilty for doing that. She decides to enter into the Revenant Games to bring back her sister, only before entering Emerson is put under a death curse and now he needs to be turned into an immortal in order to avoid it. They both team up in order to bring back Elise and to save Emerson. Bly finds herself being taken in by the vampire prince, Keirrigan, a handsome prince (along the lines of Carden from Cruel Prince). Kerrigan offers to by Bly's sacrifice to be killed because he is bored with life.... yet the more time she spends with him the more she begins to see underneath his act and that there is a blooming romance between them. But these games are brutal and you can't trust anyone, and when secrets are revealed, can Bly trust those she's put on her team to win or will she have to take out everyone to get what she wants.... if its even what she really wants. This is the first book in a series, and honestly it felt so so similar to the Hunger Games and All of Us Villains, yet lacking the magic of either of those books. I had really high hopes for this book especially since it was advertise as being a mix of All of Us Villains meets Kingdom of the Wicked (and it really did not feel like Kingdom of the Wicked). I just didn't find myself caring all that much for Bly or really liking any of the characters all that much, I wasn't invested in the love triangle, and I found myself a bit frustrated with Bly's decisions, and yes she is a 17 year old girl but come on, Katniss was young too. The similarities between this and Hunger Games was so glaring it was hard to look past it: older sister of a younger sister who is preferred by their parental figure, in love with her childhood best friend but he's not really the main love interest, a new mysterious guy who cares for her appears and is on her team and is willing to die for her, she's a poor girl fighting against other more powerful sects, like come on. Honestly, the way this book ends with such a HUGE HUGE cliffhanger, really just didn't have me caring all that much and I won't be reading the sequel in the future either. This one wasn't for me and just kind of fell flat of any of my expectations, and I think if you like Hunger games-esque stories, maybe give it a go, maybe you'll have a better time with it than I did.

*Thanks Netgalley and Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing, Margaret K. McElderry Books for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

#book review #bookish #book #the revenant games

[beckysbook5]

Waiting on Wednesday!

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#The Revenant Games #Waiting on Wednesday

[unchxxrted]

Revenant Hill

Game reveal at Playstation Showcase 2023

#revenant hill #playstation #gamingedit #dailyvideogames #new game #looks cute #videogames #ps5

[excusemeaminute]

Revenant Hill (𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺)

The year is 1919. After the barn he was living in burns down, Twigs the cat takes up residence in a wet log near an abandoned graveyard. When the owl from the next hill over starts demanding rent, Twigs must find a way to make ends meet, and things just get more complicated from there.

#revenant hill #scott benson #bethany hockenberry #ramblings #ps showcase #playstation showcase #the glory society #finji #i am so obsessed already #get in my mouth #mine #edit 13/11/23 i am strongly in denial rn. even though these images and the trailer is all the game will ever really be i still adore it #rip the glory society and big love to everyone on the team #playing now

[rbrittonart]

T h e D e a t h C u l t

All this Rev content in Apex is making me go feral again for my favorite angry murder robo! Here is one of my favorite pieces with Rev. I need to draw more Rev, but just need to draw more in gen.

BTW I've got a BSky account now!

#gaming #illustration #artists on tumblr #apex legends #revenant

[chabric]

Trying out the game style while keeping some elements I like about my own

#revenant hill #twigs #artists on tumblr #myart #fanart #night in the woods #cat :°) #really sad to know it has been cancelled :( #for the fun fact the trailer dropped just after i finished night in the wood for the first time and i was so hyped for this new game

[stardust-spangles]

Twigs ＆ Human Mae

#night in the woods #revenant hill #night in the wood mae #indie games #vector art #NITW #mae borowski #twigs

[kithj]

compiled a list of some of my favorite text-based games & VNs that are specifically wlw:

another round - You play as Maddie, a woman in love with a woman named Agnes. Actually, she hates her. Actually, it's complicated. You definitely broke things off with her. And you don't regret it. At least once. Yes. At least once per day, you don't regret ending it with Agnes. Except tonight. You definitely regret it tonight.

such, such were the joys - It is the year 19xx in England. You are returning to the town of Grayling after your first year at university to meet your old school friends: Cicily Thomas, Fatima Khan, and Susheela Rajaram. As the only Indian girls at Grayling Towers, the four of you quickly became close friends, but you haven't seen each other in a year. You're not sure what has changed since then, but this is your chance to find out.

florence - Florence lies in bed, cold and still. You watch over her and wait.

perseids, or, all this will go on forever - Four trans girlfriends go on a road trip to a dark sky park, to see the perseid meteor shower. 

winter - an interactive fiction about sex, trans insecurity, and a girl with a skull for a face.

butterfly soup 1 & 2 (VN) - A visual novel about gay Asian girls playing baseball and falling in love.

birdland - At night 14-year-old Bridget Leaside dreams of fantastic lands full of strange bird people. By day she's a miserable anxious summer camper, trying very hard not to think about her feelings for the mysterious girl detective in Cabin 22. And when her dream life starts bleeding into reality, things are going to get weird for her in a whole bunch of ways...

a summer's end: hong kong 1986 (VN) - Follow the story of Michelle and Sam, and how their chance meeting evolves into a deeper romantic relationship. Set in vibrant Hong Kong in the year 1986, it is an original story about love, family, and culture.

one day hike - You go on a hike in a familiar wood.

a year of springs (VN) - experience the stories of haru, erika, and manami in A YEAR OF SPRINGS, a visual novel trilogy about a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.

pageant - Your name is Qiuyi (Karen?) Zhao, and you’ve just been signed up by your parents for a beauty pageant. You’re not ready, not even close, but you don’t have a choice. But perhaps you can make the best of it.

new year's eve, 2019 (sequel to pageant) - You are Karen Zhao, a senior in college who is home for winter break, and seeing your old high school friends for the first time in years. You are not ready, not even close, but perhaps you could make the best of it.

the revenant's lament - Way out west, in the most lonesome of reaches, strange things are afoot. Cowboys around campfires tell ghost stories and tall tales, speak of impossible, supernatural things. They say the devil walks amongst men. They say he'll grant you impossible wishes at the cost of your eternal soul. They say he can bring dead men back to life.

venus meets venus - Two women meet in a bar. This is not a love story.

#yes i put my own game on this list. sue me #anyways i know there are like a billion yuri games on itchio so this is a highly curated list #excluding dating sims and yuri VNs cus they're incredibly easy to find like just go in the yuri tag lmfao #interactive fiction #games #also most of the creators on this list have more games too that i recommend #draw everything here that's me and you (?) something like that by kaleidofish #anamika has quite a few games besides florence and such such were the joys #there's another sequel to pageant and new years 2019 & the archivist by autumn chen #npckc has a shit ton of games lmfao #there are some sequels to birdland too but ive never played any of those #communistsister has a massive catalogue of games and collabs with domino club #anyways. these are just some of my favorite creators #and some of their games that i really liked #i might add on to this but im having a hard time focusing to read games lately i only just finally read revenant's lament last night #so i could put it here. brigid your game will haunt me forever (affectionate)

[faeryclown]

"I only wanted control over me."

#apex legends #apex revenant #revenant apex legends #revenant reborn #revenant #kaleb cross #apexedit #gamingedit #dailygaming #kill code #kill code 4 #robots #video games #original #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #look at my poor little meow meow go #kill girl kill

[fluffykratos983]

You guys really seemed to like the skin concepts I shared last time, here’s the fanart I made based on my concepts lol 🤠💅✨

ty for all the support btw, I literally don’t know how to use this app and just figured out what notes are 🥹💗

#loba andrade #loba apex legends #fanart #apex legends #loba fanart #revenant apex legends #concept art #carnaval #revenant apex #revenant #valk apex legends #valkyrie apex legends #gaming #video games #fan art #att

[queen-of-possum-springs]

new game made by the devs of NITW

a new game, revenant hill, in the works by the glory society (founded by the devs from infinite fall)

desc from the game site

It is 1919 in the Lower North. After the barn he was living in burns down,Twigs the cat takes up residence in a wet log near an abandoned graveyard. When the owl from the next hill over starts demanding rent, Twigs must find a way to make ends meet, and things just get more complicated from there.

Times are hard, making ends meet is harder, and the world doesn’t stop at the edge of the graveyard. Something big and dark is at work in the towns, the factories, in the forests and hills. Sooner or later, someone is going to have to push back.

#night in the woods #nitw #the glory society #revenant hill #im really excited to see how this games turns out!! :0 #Youtube

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was playing multiplayer Left 4 Dead and I was playing as Revenant Apex Legends, pouncing on survivors and giving them a free coupon.

#dream #text #left 4 dead #game #gaming #revenant apex legends

[simonsquared]

Can't wait for Revenant Hill!

#fanart #digital art #my art #simonsquared #deltarune fanart #digital artist #revenant hill #revenant hill twigs #revenant hill fanart #revenant hill twigs fanart #indie game fanart #indie game art #indie game #game fanart #procreate art #procreate

[agilident]

drew rev in undertale yellow :^)

#my art #apex legends fanart #revenant apex #game was fun. took 30 minutes to do this though #i love only working with four colors! yaay #not including yellow in that count #undertale yellow #ig i can tag that? why not

[jesawyer]

Revenant Hill

check this shit out

#night in the woods #revenant hill #the glory society #video games #Youtube