I love to read and sometimes write. I'm active on fedi mostly as @tomasino@tilde.zone. I've been using Goodreads for the past bajillion years and will try to transition here. I run cosmic.voyage and a bunch of fun projects like @SolarpunkPrompts@podcast.tomasino.org
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Love it. There's a ton of good content here. Great variety of encounters. Lots of options to give players freedom. The theme is flexible if you have issues with it, and Paizo put out some helpful toolbox stuff to get around problem areas.
Rising Sun is a 1992 novel by Michael Crichton. It was his eighth under his …
Boring
The writing isn't very strong. The characters are shallow and the movie buff quirk feels less a character aspect than a trick to hide a lack of personality. My worst complaint is for the audiobook reader, however. Just atrocious work. His women's voices are not just bad but unfitting to their characters. Everyone else is a caricature.
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts …
That was pretty messed up. :)
This is a departure from my usual genre fiction, but was recommended by someone with excellent taste. The amount of sexual focus threw me off at first and I wasn't sure if it was something coming from the romance background or not, but by the end of the story it was fully justified. Given such a small setting and the few characters it had a remarkable amount of tension and thrill. I didn't expect the ending either!
Well that took an unexpected turn! Still the best cultivation series around.
An excellent and bloody conclusion to the series.
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) …
Not as good as book 1, but still an enjoyable time with sibling Dex and Mosscap.
Ahhhh! So much action and everything is on fire! The entire book felt like a climactic showdown. And a cliffhanger ending means I'm in for more in the next book. Starting it now.
Well this is embarassing, but I don't think I "got" the majority of the references in this book. From page one it felt like we were spoofing something, but I don't have the cultural background to know what. Names were said in a joking way, childrens stories littered throughout (I did catch Baba Yaga), and the colorful characters felt like they were stand-ins for ideas or perhaps stereotypes of unfamiliar things. This is the favorite book of a friend and I feel bad being unable to fully appreciate it.
One of the dangers of long book series is when the fall into the trap of episodic TV where things end pretty much where they started. Maybe a new character is introduced, but the protagonists have grown only in experience and nothing really changes the status quo. The Alex Verus series feels a bit like this early on. Books progress and the list of Alex's enemies grows. He's forced to make hard choices and walk a difficult ethical path, but he himself remains basically the same for it. That is, until Fallen.
This book goes up there on a list of series favorites like the Wheel of Time's Lord of Chaos. Things happen and nothing will be the same. That commitment to step off the ledge is thrilling for the reader, especially 10 books in. There's only two more in the series as of this review and I'm really curious …
One of the dangers of long book series is when the fall into the trap of episodic TV where things end pretty much where they started. Maybe a new character is introduced, but the protagonists have grown only in experience and nothing really changes the status quo. The Alex Verus series feels a bit like this early on. Books progress and the list of Alex's enemies grows. He's forced to make hard choices and walk a difficult ethical path, but he himself remains basically the same for it. That is, until Fallen.
This book goes up there on a list of series favorites like the Wheel of Time's Lord of Chaos. Things happen and nothing will be the same. That commitment to step off the ledge is thrilling for the reader, especially 10 books in. There's only two more in the series as of this review and I'm really curious to see what happens next.
Advance Your Game
This comprehensive guide to the Pathfinder roleplaying game provides everything you need …
I love the rules changes. They've managed to simplify a lot of things, kill off areas that were black-holes for investment in PF1, and still kept a fantastic amount of customization. I'll be starting a new campaign for my crew in a few weeks and I'm so excited to see how these changes work in action.
This book doesn't really land well without familiarity to the things it's spoofing. Writing is fine but I'd recommend another Hemingway book instead.
