Review: Guardian of Aster Fall Book 7

Title: World Seal (Guardian of Aster Fall Book 7)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CG15JTYB/

Author: David North

Rating: 3.5/5

Comments: I have been having issues with this series since book 4, when the family aspect began to dwindle away, and at this point the family gets mentioned maybe a double handful of times per book.  Characters that we expected to have a significant role in the overall story in early books don't even get mentioned. Meanwhile Sam is routinely punching above his weight class, despite there being an extremely limited number of beings that are actually higher tier than him.

And then we have the navel gazing.  It's gotten worse.  I was regularly skipping paragraphs, and significant chunks of pages.

At this point I'm invested in this story and I will probably finish the story, but I don't find it nearly as satisfying as the early books.

Bedroom Activities: None

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Blog update

For the few people wondering, I didn't have a post yesterday because I have been sick, and just haven't been up for doing a post.  I have some books queued up, but translating that into posts takes brain power, and that's been in short supply

Review: Dreamer's Throne

Title: Dreamer's Throne: A Fantasy LitRPG Adventure 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C9VW6BYM

Author: Seth Ring

Rating: 3/5

Comments:  I picked this up because Seth writes Battlemage Farmer, and that's great.  Objectively the writing in this book is just as good as Battlemage Farmer but the protagonist's actions in this story seriously bothered me.  Morally and ethically, I find what he does to be wrong on so many levels.  Sorry, hard pass on this series.

Bedroom Activities: None

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Review: Unintended Cultivator 1&2

Title: Unintended Cultivator 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLKVMJDB

Author: Eric Dontigney

Rating: 4.8/5

Comments:  This one has been floating in front of me for a while, but I just put off picking it up for a lot of reasons.   I grabbed the audiobook because I needed a commute listen and then when I was done with that I picked up book 2 because I didn't want to wait for the audiobook.    It's a really good cultivation story, focused on a street kid who was bullied by the noble brats and then they get a cultivation mentor of phenomenal power.  Hilarity ensues.

Definitely going to be reading book 3.

Bedroom Activities: FTB

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Review: Path of Ascension 6

Title: The Path of Ascension 6: A LitRPG Adventure

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CQ35D2D4/

Author: C. Mantis

Rating:3.9/5

Comments: Path of Ascension as a series is starting to deal with the issue of dragging its tail along with the story.  All the stuff that has happened before is there weighing things down.  I mean the characters are still good, and the setting is decent but as readers we still want a new story with our familiar tropes.  For myself, in order for the story to be good, there has to be something new.  This one took a while, but it gave us some of what we want.  This book covers the first half of Minkalla.  It's an odd setting honestly, but the author puts some really interesting scenes in it.  I'll still be reading the next one, but I hope he picks up the pace.

Bedroom Activities: FTB

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Author Interview: Cebelius

Cebelius was interviewed by Tess Irondale, and I can't say I'm very familiar with Tess but she does a great job with the interview, and Cebelius provides insightful and thoughtful answers.  I don't usually go for hour long listens, but it went by really fast.

https://soundcloud.com/tess-irondale-narration/narrator-tess-irondale-interviews-author-cebelius

Review: Sunken Spaceship

Title: Sunken Spaceship

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CLD2XMZ9/

Author: Anthony J. Melchiorri

Rating: 3/5

Comments:  I wasn't really sure how to rate this one.  It's not badly written, and the premise is decent, but I just didn't enjoy it.  I enjoyed parts of it, and some of the characters are good, but I didn't connect to the protagonist.  I think the biggest problem is that it didn't feel like the character really developed over the course of the book.  

Bedroom Activities: None

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In Memoriam: Travis Heermann

 In memoriam: Travis Heermann

Amazon.com: Travis Heermann: books, biography, latest update

Well, I had hoped to avoid making these kind of posts a regular occurrence, but here we are.

Travis was a friend of mine going back to college (early 90's), and we were pretty tight for a long time.  We gamed together, we did home renovation projects, and went to Gen-Con.  Unfortunately, over the last 10-15 years we had grown apart, but I wished him no harm.

Back in December he was involved in a freak motorcycle accident and suffered massive brain trauma.  They initially gave him a 5% chance to wake up.  He did indeed wake up, but the trauma was catastrophic.  Despite months of intensive therapy, he did not improve, and he was placed in hospice.  Last week he passed on.

Fair winds and following seas Travis, may He grant you Grace in the next life.