He Who Fights with Monsters 7
Let’s face it – if you’re at book seven of a series, you know what’s going on by now. I’m rather glad the whole Earth-centric story arc of the past three books is over and done with. While okay, it […]
Let’s face it – if you’re at book seven of a series, you know what’s going on by now. I’m rather glad the whole Earth-centric story arc of the past three books is over and done with. While okay, it […]
Finally wrapping up what Jason has been working towards since arriving back on Earth, book six of He Who Fights with Monsters by Travis Deverell (aka Shirtaloon) had a closer return to form for Jason than the previous outings. The
Pangea Online, the entire trilogy collected into a single volume for a credit, sounded good in theory. I’d also read a lot of people gushing about how good the story is. I respectfully must disagree. Okay, so the first book
The story in book four of the “He Who Fights with Monsters” series is at a slower pace than the first three in the series. A good half or more deals with Jason’s homecoming to Earth and the obvious issue
He Who Fights with Monsters 3, written by Travis Deverell, is a great addition to the HWFWM series, with boatloads of monster-fighting and loads of story arc payoff. But here’s where the “but” comes in. The characters have ranked up
Mid-Lich Crisis, written by Steve Thomas, is a tale of a Darruk, a lich (basically an undead mage) with a single, somewhat noble pursuit of saving the world through any means necessary. Unfortunately, he’s constantly thwarted at every opportunity by
The (Sort of) Dark Mage, book 1 of the Waldo Rabbit series by Nelson Chereta had me, right up until the ending, which it completely whiffed. Not a “Game of Thrones season 8” level whiff, but enough of one to
For some reason, I never took the plunge to grab this fairy tale reimagining by Drew Hayes. I follow a podcast of his where he’s the DM of a bunch of authors playing DND (rather badly but hilariously) so I’ve