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Saturday, January 25, 2025

The Appeal of an Overpowered Protagonist part 6 – Awesome but Impractical

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Today, I’m covering the concept of flaws as they relate to overpowered characters, because “being overpowered” is not the same as being “per...
Saturday, October 5, 2024

Escalation in novels BAD; What You Should Do Instead

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 Hello! Now that I have your attention, I'll finish my sentence: Escalation in a novel is BAD when it is simply for the purpose of escal...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Appeal of an Overpowered Protagonist - Part 5 - I Swore an Oath

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Welcome back to this series. It's been a while. Now that I'm doing book reviews by request only, you can expect more posts like this...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

Deltora Quest - book 5 - Dread Mountain

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Due to the nature of how I found this series, I started this book immediately after book 1. I wasn't lost at all. I could pick up immedi...

Today's Menu for the Emiya Family - volume 3 (read for fun)

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More sweet and cozy stories featuring tasty-looking foods. I'll share some personal highlights.  A spotlight for Assassin. He gets so li...
Saturday, May 4, 2024

Deltora Quest - book 1 - Forest of Silence

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This was a fun read. It was a quick read. I think it was written for a pre-teen audience, but that does not mean it is shallow in the least....
Monday, April 29, 2024

Elemental Masters novel - Blood Red (Read for fun)

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I picked this up at a Friends of the Library book sale.  I really like the world building here. Mercedes Lackey goes DEEP into the elemental...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

The Last Dragonlord

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 What I Liked *The world building:  For instance! Dragon Lords have an interesting origin, as related by the world's bards, and the fact...
Saturday, March 30, 2024

PathFinder - First Edition - Core Rulebook

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After Wizards of the Coast did that One D&D OGL debacle, I decided to explore other TTRPG systems, and the first one on my list was Path...
Friday, March 29, 2024

The Selection Series book 4 - The Heir"

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This is the fourth book in the Selection Series, but it is the start of a new plot line, so it is a good jumping on point. I don't feel ...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

PUBLISHED! Catalyst for Glorious Change!

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 Hi everyone! I finally published something! It's been years. The first time in the better part of a decade. I finally got something pub...
Friday, February 9, 2024

Read for fun: Shadow Guard - a Second Guard novel

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 What I like:  *the world-building such as the creation myths, the structure of the three guilds, and the role of the Fray in Quarry Town...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

Witchnapped in Westerham (Paranormal Investigation Bureau book 1 (read for fun)

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When I read the blurb on the back, I was expecting that to be the set-up. You know, all that stuff in the first couple of chapters. Instead,...