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By Walter Kraatz       The use of a book as the premise for a movie has happened since the beginning of film with early 20th  century adaptions of Frankenstein and Cinderella being prime examples. The comparison of a book and its movie is a popular point of discussion and contention between book nerds and film nerds. This comparison between a book and film, while fun, is inherently flawed because of the differences between the two mediums.     The most obvious and important difference between a book and a film is the visual element present in a film that is absent in a book. Even if a film is based on a comic book or graphical novel the amount of detail that can be shown in a film exceeds the book because of the movements and expressions of the actors and the detailed background images that can be limited by print quality in a comic book. Because of the lack of a visual element in a book the author must provide a description which can be interpreted b...

 By: Grace To Legacy of Kings, the first book in the Blood of Gods and Royals series, is a historical fiction fantasy book centered around a character based on the historical Alexander the Great and his teenage years. The story is written in the perspective of a lot of different characters (seven in total): Katerina (Kat), Jacob, Alexander (Alex), Hephaestion (Heph), Olympias, Cynane (Cyn), and Zofia (Zo). The character and their stories begin to come together as the plot unravels. Jacob and Kat have known each other since childhood and develop feelings for each other until they have to separate as Jacob is chosen to participate in an arena battle, where the last man standing wins. Alex is the heir to Macedonia and has grown up with Heph after bringing him into the palace. Cyn is Alex's half-sister, seeking a type of magic that her mother once pursued. Finally, Zo is a Persian Princess who desperately wants to change her fate so she can be with who she loves.  First, there are...