My birthday happens to fall in May. I'm not big on celebrating it but I often use it as an excuse to travel or have a fancy meal. This year, though, I want to celebrate it with all of you. I have created a new Bloggy Bundle that contains my all time favourite book and one of my favourite games. I'm also giving everybody that spends at least €50 in a purchase (before shipping) in the month of May a €10 coupon for their next purchase!
For the bundle, I have selected to bring Frankenstein and Millennium Blades together for no other reason than I like both of them a lot. I first read Frankenstein in my teenage years (oh so long ago) and have reread it at least once every 5 years or so. Touted as one of the first science fiction novels, Frankenstein is told from the perspective of a sailor retelling the story of the life of the crazed man they rescued in the Artic Circle. From this we learn of Victor Frankenstein's life, his conception to bring about new life through science, and his horror at his creation. It is at this point that the story is taken over by the arrival of the creation who then tells the sailor and us about his life after being abandoned by Victor after "birth".
The story is a thrilling and heart-breaking tale through and through. I am looking forward to re-reading it this year and am challenging myself to do so in Dutch. I am hoping that some of you may join me in reading it this year as well especially if you haven't read it before.
Millennium Blades on the other hand is a spoof of all the things I grew up loving when I was kid combined together in a Yu-Gi-Oh-esque world where every character is trying to be the best at the Millennium Blades card game. The board game Millennium Blades puts all of that together into a fun-filled 60 minutes where much of the action is done simultaneously in timed rounds of trying to find and buy just the right cards to make the perfect deck and complete your collection. At the end of 3 rounds, the person who manged to do the best at collecting and winning tournaments is declared the winner. Don't worry if you're not an expert in trading card games or knowing how to "manipulate the meta", Millennium Blades does a brilliant job of boiling all the components of a complex trading card game experience down into an approachable board game experience.
I really have no clean way of bundling these two together from a thematic perspective but I'm taking the opportunity that it is my birthday to lump them into a bundle simply because I enjoy both. I hope that you give them a chance and find that you enjoy them as well.