âMagic runs on emotions. Fabrisse runs on pure, undiluted embarrassment.â Core Premise & Initial Impression: Take a young man, and shoot him up with heavy doses of pathetic. And I donât mean street stuff: the pitifulness of an unheedful galoot, fumbling on the floor, glasses knocked from his head having strolledâwith purposeâinto a lamppost while…
Weâre all the main characters in our own lives. Only you can live your story. When you passed off that loud gas as squeaky trousersâ All you, buddy. When you asked your crush out and the whole school laughed? Probably shouldnât have cried, but you still commanded centre stage. Even now, while youâre reading instead…
âThe gods left their toys behind. The mortals are still figuring out which end goes boom.â Core Premise & Initial Impressions: What The Gods Left Behind bills itself as an epic fantasy novel. âEpicâ is about as accurate as it gets. Right from the prologue, the author serves up a sweeping creation mythâpresented as the…
âHe died for art. But that won’t stop his vision” Core Premise & Initial Impression. The Pictomancer is a LitRPG unlike any youâve ever read before. Unless youâve actually read one beforeâ Then yeah. Then itâs just like that. Across the twenty-two chapters Iâve read, it rarely strays from the genreâs staples. With one notable…
Iâll just come out and say itâHeartworm is weird. And I donât mean âkinda weird.â I mean the strain of weird that stares a little too long on the bus when you glance up and feel it lingering. The weird that locks eyes but doesnât blink. The bus is still. No sound. That weird old…
How to avoid heartbreak, dismemberment, or becoming someone’s magical catalyst Once upon a time, it was simple. You met someone you fancied. The wedding was set for June. And theyâd make it too. You knew they would. Call it a hunch. Call it intuition. Call it what it was: a positive test and her fatherâs…
Have you ever done something you truly regret? I donât mean the casual, âAh, I couldâve handled that better,â kind of regret. I mean the real kind. The kind that wakes you up in a seedy motel room at two in the afternoon on a workday. You scan the room; empty Bud Light cans litter…
If youâre reading this, youâre probably at least a bit familiar with status ailments in video games. From poison and bleed that drain your hit points, to slow, stun, and sleep that leave you open to combo attacks. We like to think status effects are just game mechanics. But what if theyâre not? What if…
âIt doesnât reinvent the wheelâbut it drives it straight through a dungeon wall.â Core Premise & Initial Impression. Slave Origins wears its LitRPG badge proudly. Itâs got all the classics: levelling, monsters, dungeon crawling, magic weapons, loot, and a familiar cast of non-human racesâelves, orcs, beastkin, lizardmen⌠and humans. (Yeah, I knowâhumans are technically human….
Letâs not pretend otherwiseâSky Pride is a cultivation novel. You know the type. Through the chrysalis of pills, potions, and martial training, the meagre caterpillar transforms itself into a mighty butterfly⌠who can casually toss mountains into the sea. Progression is the aim of the gameâbody, mind, spirit. Progression in clearly defined stages. Some cultivation…