Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerThree young, and slightly desperate people perform a summoning for help. This is something that is a known idea in this world, and especially at Hettua Shrine, which will bring you the person most capable of getting you exactly what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a good book… but also one that’s hard to get into. This is a fantasy that’s more than nonstandard enough to need guideposts, and they’re a bit slow in coming. Also, while the plot is technically running from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At about 1,300 words, this is a short-short. So there’s not a lot of room for anything here. Writing wise, it’s pretty good, but I wonder if there’s a bunch of unclosed italic tag errors in the manuscript. There’s some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The “part 1, volume 1” bit may be a bit confusing. There is a big website in Japan for posting web novels (Shousetsuka ni Narou). Basically, a non-fanfic version of things like AO3. It is basically the testing ground for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shirley Rousseau Murphy’s second YA epic fantasy series sprawls less than Children of Ynell/World of Ere did, but doesn’t really reach the highs of that series. That probably has to do with the choice of main character. Teb is closer[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a recent contemporary fantasy furry romance novel. It’s fairly lighthearted, fun, and good. On the furry side, it’s the fairly typical backgroundless furry contemporary world. Technology is about what we have (cell phones and all). Background isn’t really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While getting started with this novella, something was tickling at the back of my mind. Shortly after the first chapter, I realized that I recognized the names “Raneadhros” and “Ranea”. This is the same world as his early stories “A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, from the beginning, I have questions that are never answered. It’s part of a setup that is fine in it’s own right, but you do have to wonder at the biology. Teku is a fifth child. Which doesn’t seem[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Basically the last in the line of Dilvish stories, this is the biggest (the others being short stories), and the most Zelazny. Not to say you can’t tell who wrote the others, but this one has the space to spread[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The introduction to this book is interesting, as we find there is something of a path to this second book that leads through another book on to another. Essentially, Wrede wrote a sequel, then wrote a book in between (this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…