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 BootsI haven’t kept any sort of real eye on new releases in decades, so I’ve only been peripherally aware of Brian Sanderson and Mistborn. And it’s popular enough that I couldn’t not be aware of it. Generally, it lives up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second book of the Paladin’s Legacy series is structured much like the first: Five different threads with only limited mobility between them flowing through the entire book. This is the type of thing can can get on my nerves[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third book of Protector of the Small continues to be a notable improvement over Song of the Lioness. Interestingly, it begins and ends with the Chamber of the Ordeal; the Ordeal itself isn’t so much, but it’s presence is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a prequel to Jensen’s Malediction Trilogy, and as such I recommend you read that first. And I do, indeed, recommend that you read the trilogy, it’s quite good. This book is up to the general standard of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, first off, if you can’t tell by the cover, this is a horse book. Which is perfectly fine, and has a great literary tradition, though I never went through a horse phase. (Being a guy might have something to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark got me a copy of Necromancer for Christmas, so I put together a Vassal module, and we tested that back in March. (I plan on releasing it after one more test session.) As one of the old SJG pocket-box[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second Tomoe Goezen book is in the same format as the first: Four nearly independent novellas under one cover, with no more than scene breaks within them. Like last time, they are different stories, with different tones, but there[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is another Andre Norton that I’m sure I read ages ago, but don’t have any clear memories of anymore. This is the first of the “High Hallack” Witch World novels, which I always generally enjoyed more than the Estcarp[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the original Forgotten Realms boxed set, Evermeet is a somewhat mysterious place off the map, where the elves have slowly been retreating to as their continental holdings fall. It’s impossible not to compare with Tolkien at that point, with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The fourth book of the Queen’s Thief series changes main characters again. This time, honors go to Sophos, returning from a primary character role in The Thief. The first section of the book is entirely arranged as him telling what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…