Smudge Marks & Engel Werks Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsThe third “Quarters” novel is a direct sequel to Fifth Quarter, picking up all the unfinished business left behind last time. I certainly wouldn’t recommending starting here as we’re in the middle of a mess of unlikely proportions. The good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once again, Guy Gavriel Kay does not disappoint. That said, the very beginning didn’t really grab me (especially the caper on Rian’s Island). But partway through chapter 3, Blaise, our main character, gets ambushed, and I was hooked for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When you look at a book in a contemporary fantasy series, and it name drops “Mars”, and has a tripod on the cover, you have to wonder if someone’s gone insane. And the title, “of Mars” implies, well, people, on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First off, I recommend against buying the Evinity Kindle edition. While it does have the original illustrations, it also has a number of errors, and breaks up the text with tags for the original pages—breaking up paragraphs and sentences willy-nilly.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, decades upon decades later, I have finally read all of this series. Of course, I just read the first half three years ago, but I also read the books largely as they came out originally, but never got to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, a fantasy book from a generally unknown author and a niche publisher. Immediate question: was it worthwhile. Answer: yes. The biggest problem is one of setting. This appears to an alternate-universe setting stuck in the Victorian era. There’s no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Spice and Wolf is a great anime series, that I give one of my strongest general recommendations. Sadly, it did not get the third season promised some time ago, but the two existing seasons are very good. It comes from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I found the first couple episodes of the Konosuba anime pretty rough going before it turned into a truly funny series. And that problem is present here in the original novel too. The main problem is Kazuma and Aqua as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I decided to go with chronological order as I catch up with the Penric series (…”catch up” is probably the wrong term here; perhaps “tread water”), and I’m glad I did. This one features the return of the characters from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second Penric story feels a lot better developed than the first. It’s also about 60 pages longer, which for a novella is quite a difference. Things happen instead of merely happen to Penric. Penric is not the only viewpoint[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…