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Land of Mediocrity

May 11, 2016 by Fabius Maximus Leave a Comment

It has been a while. I keep reading and writing reviews but I can barely find the time to edit and upload. That is why this review is about a series of books. So. RPG literature. I thought that when everyone else writes about “kissing books”, I can review “adventure books”. There certainly is an abundance of crappy fantasy and SF literature available, but novels set in the worlds of roleplaying games are something special. Often enough, they reach such low standards that they are […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Dave Gross, fantasy, King of Chaos, Lord of Runes, Master of Devils, Pathfinder Tales, Prince of Wolves, Queen of Thorns

I’d hang out with Bigfoot around a campfire. He seems like a cool dude.

May 10, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

This is a fun little novella/short story collection set in the Dresdenverse. Three linked short stories are included here, taking place at varying times throughout Harry’s history. “B is for Bigfoot” takes place after Fool Moon, “I Was a Teenage Bigfoot” occurs after Dead Beat, and “Bigfoot on Campus” is sandwiched between Turn Coat and Changes, so the Harry in this collection is the Harry from Before, still working as a wizard PI. All in all, I found this book to be a fun, light […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: audiobooks, bigfoot, Detective Fiction, fantasy, James Marsters, Jim Butcher, narfna, novellas, paranormal, short stories, the Dresden Files, Urban Fantasy

I had so much fun listening to this. Sometimes you just need nerd fluff.

May 10, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

Martin Banks is a jackass. That’s all I kept thinking during the first half or so of this book. To be clear, my thinking the main character was a jackass in no way hindered my enjoyment of the story. In fact, I’m fairly certain the book encouraged that opinion. See, one day Martin is sitting at home being lazy, hacking websites just for the fun of it (he sees himself as a benevolent hacker, because he doesn’t cause any harm–he just likes doing it) when […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: audiobooks, fantasy, humor, luke daniels, magic 2.0, meta fiction, narfna, nerd lit, off to be the wizard, sci-fi, scott meyer, virtual worlds

My least favorite in the series.

May 10, 2016 by narfna 2 Comments

The continuing adventures of Ashley/narfna re-reading The Dresden Files in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . PARTY. I’m not sure exactly why I thought this book was better than the first one when I read it seven (seven! gross, that’s so many) years ago, but if you care to read my initial review, which I have included in the parentheses following this sentence, you’ll see that was indeed the case. (Original review from August 2009: “Better than the first one. I’m hanging in […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: audiobooks, Detective Fiction, fantasy, fool moon, James Marsters, Jim Butcher, narfna, paranormal, the Dresden Files, Urban Fantasy

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