Inside GMT 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 Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsSpice 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…
I 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…