âKill the Princess is about laughing your way through the apocalypse, right up until it stops being funny.â Core Premise & Initial Impression: Some say the world ends in fire. Others say ice. From what Iâve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favour fire. But if it had to perish twice, the apocalypse…
âThis is not a fantasy built to be consumed quickly, but one meant to be lived in.â Core Premise & Initial Impressions: Everyone has their issues. Some of us drink too much; for others, itâs food. Maybe your parents pushed you too hard. Maybe they didnât push you hard enough. Someone reading this right now…
âAn earnest work of myth-making, heavy with history and danger.â Core Premises & Initial Impressions: Throw yourself back to your school days. Youâre on the far side of the classroomânot in the teacherâs direct line of sight, but you can see the whiteboard all the same. You donât even have to bob and weave past…
âThe Glass Wizard isnât pushing the boundaries of web fictionâitâs hurling itself through them like a wizard-shaped meteor.â Core Premise & Initial Impressions: How best to convey my first impressions of The Glass Wizard? I wrestled with that question while scribbling notes for this reviewâbut eventually, the answer revealed itself. To wit: imagine yourself at…
In todayâs society of ceaseless overachievers, I canât help but feel a little left out every time I walk into a bookstore â itâs flooded with how-to-become-successful guides. Iâve never read one, so I canât say how good they are⌠Can bestsellers really teach you how to write themselves? But on a second thought, Iâm…
âIn Aether Nexus, kindness and calamity share the same cabinâa boyâs compassion, a witchâs curse, and a storm waiting just beyond the door.â Core Premise & Initial Impression: Bardic Planet has reviewed quite the number of progression-fantasy novels of late. As Bard-in-Chief, itâs my prerogative to mix things up. Pursuant to that, this week youâll…
âDeath is temporary. The fine print is forever.â Core Concept & Initial Impressions: In our ever-growing partnership with Bardic Planet, IâSilas Quibble, reputable spokesgoblin for Dubious Derivatives⢠Limitedâhave been invited back to co-author this First Impressions review of Paragon of Weaponmasters.When I first dug into the work, I knew I was the right goblin for…
Core Premise & Initial Impression: Stay with me, dear reader, because this one might bring up some awkward memories. For the lads, you know exactly what I mean. Iâm sure itâs no less true for some of you ladies as well. Throw yourself back to when you were thirteen. A pimply youthâhormones aflame, eyes wandering…
âWelcome to Kyrus Academy: where the obstacle courses break bones, the bullies draw blood, and the Sorting Hat explodes if youâre talented enough.â Core Premise & Initial Impression: The magical academy: a staple in any young childâs life. I remember my wizarding daysâhow weâd laugh while Professor Slughorn oinked furiously from pupil to pupil, desperate…
âThis isnât a story where bigger fists winâitâs one where sharper knives are hidden behind prettier smiles.â Core Premise & Initial Impression: What do you get when you mix a mind-melding maligned monarch, a mesmerisingly malignant maiden, manipulative municipal machinations, and multifaceted mystically meticulous magics? A lot of Ms⌠fifteen of them, by my count….