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This is great reference material for character creation for RPGs, but also for books. I'll be referring to it often.

Teddy bear litrpg adventures continue in this second volume.. Not a lot of new ground being broken, but some fun characters and humor.

A charming, heart warming story. Give it a read and fall in love with all the characters, and bellhops!

This was a sweet romance in a fantasy setting. It's a gentle story with a very natural progression of the romantic interest, but there are still some fun thrilling moments of danger and action. I especially enjoyed the harpy encounter.

Dense, pedantic, and suffers from endless induction of half-baked ideas. Still, I understand why it's a foundational writing in the field. I'm happy to move on from it and I'm looking forward to the many books that will rip this one apart with welcome criticism.

DNF. There was a gross amount of abuse, and a gross amount of lazy writing. It became a slog and I gave up about 60% of the way

This is a really difficult story to describe or review without spoilers. I will say that it was utterly fascinating in the world it created and the point of view it offered. It had elements of Plato's allegory of the cave, but then grew and expanded in really neat directions. Well worth a read if you're looking for something different.

This was so funny and action packed! The story was great and the character arcs too.

A rather twisted duel between hitchhiking serial killers written as an experiment or game between the two authors. Neither is a character you hope so succeed, so when they go head-to-head it's a bit difficult to decide what you hope the outcome will be. Never fear, though. You won't guess this one.

This book is such a joyful, peaceful journey of the heart. I loved the monk and I loved the robot and I want to spend more time with them both.

M: "How does the idea of maybe being meaningless sit well with you?"

R: "Because I know that no matter what, I'm wonderful."

Sometimes you need some butt-kicking urban fantasy to cleanse the palette. You could do much worse than Jill Kismet. There's just enough worldbuilding to get the sense of a larger picture, but you're never too far from a bloody fight to get bogged down.

I'm reading through the Omnibus version of the series and ticking these off one-by-one. They're lovely little murdery bedtime stories.

Well, that wraps up G Willow Wilson's time as writer for Ms. Marvel and I have to say I'm impressed. Overall this was a great series and a great introduction to an awesome new super hero. This last book reconnected some friends and explored some fun next-steps in their lives. There wasn't anything groundbreaking, but it still felt like a nice send off.

Boring as sin. The reader of the audiobook did it no justice. (Note: the reader did a wonderful job in Forging Hephaestus and its sequel, just not in this outting.)

It starts strong enough with a lot of world-building and some interesting tech that facilitates deep internal conversations. But then it gets bogged down in dialogue and exposition, drags onwards for hundreds of pages, and ultimately there's no payoff for your efforts. It has lots of potential and maybe future books will be better in the series that it sets up, but I won't be reading them.