Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer“T. Kingfisher” is a pseudonym for Ursula Vernon’s more ‘grown up’ books, but The Seventh Bride is really more Young Adult in my eyes. Certainly, the level of writing is still in that area (that’s not bad, the book just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The problem with reviewing this is that I don’t know where to start…. Digger is one of those rare things from the world of webcomics: A small project that bloomed into a larger story, and then came in for a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The final volume of Kate Elliot’s Crown of Stars series has a lot of work to do. The cast has grown enormous, multiple threats are coming at the main characters from completely different sources, and the political situation is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In origin, this is half a book. Each volume of the Crown of Stars series was longer than the last, and here at the end it finally got too long to put under one cover. It’s also hard to figure[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I grabbed this graphic novel at APE a few weeks ago, and it’s pretty good. It’s a collection of six stories, each with a different artist, but the same writer. Each story makes a good whole, so the graphic novel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As the Crown of Stars series nears its end, this book loses its individual identity. There’s no real ‘spine’ overtly holding this book together as a unit. No new characters to speak of. As a result, The Gathering Storm does[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The very beginning of The Disfavored Hero directly states that this is an alternate Japan (Naipon) where myth is real. This is something that should never be said in a novel. Let your creation stand on its own feet, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Book four of Crown of Stars follows the usual practice of giving time to four major plot threads. The new major character this time is Adica, the Hollowed One of a tribe that is part of an effort to cast[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Book three of Crown of Stars introduces Zacharias as the new viewpoint character to help hold the book together as a separate unit. His story is largely passive, as he follows Sanglant’s mother, who re-enters after her exit in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second book of Crown of Stars definitely suffers from a fracturing of the plot, with eight different viewpoint characters, most of which get turns from the get-go. Only one of these is a completely new character, and Anna’s story[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…