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I've never been so far behind on book reviews... Two finished ones and four not-finished ones.
Going Rogue by Drew Hayes
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Liked(Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
Siege Tactics by Drew Hayes
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Liked(Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
Books #3 and #4 in a series, these two follow so many characters through the real world and a fictional (tabletop fantasy) world. In the real world, a "Spells, Swords, & Stealth" group (Dungeons and Dragons group) runs into real life magic, sometimes pulling them into the fantasy world.
In the fictional world, there's a number of groups the plot follows. The characters played by those real world people, another party made up of NPCs, and others.
I LOVED the first book of this series (a party of PCs dies in an encounter and a party of NPCs steps in to take over the mission). By book four, it's got so beyond that simple, fun plot. Now there are magic artifacts that bridge the two worlds, and other stuff. It's not bad, it's just that I liked the first book better.
There was a whole lot I liked about these two books. The main characters were great (the ones in the fantasy world), and I really enjoyed seeing them learning and growing. They're all such great, flawed characters. The worldbuilding (especially how the gods worked) was really nice, too.
All in all, both of these were really fun reads. I'm looking forward to the next one.
Before those two, I had two unfinished ones.
Full Moon City (26%) -- Abandoned it two months ago. I no longer remember what it was about or why. Bad me!
The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men (4%) -- Abandoned it two months ago. I believe it was an anthology, but not formatted for ebook reading, so the only way to skip a story and move to the next one was page by page flipping. First story didn't work for me, and not worth the effort to get to the next one.
After Going Rogue and Siege Tactics, I had two more I abandoned.
The Spaceship Took Us To Octavia (6%) -- Wasn't awful, but the voice of the writing didn't work for me. I think it was British maybe? The writing was so dry:
Bob said, "Let's go play."
Mark said, "Okay."
They ran to the park to play.
Mark said, "Isn't this fun?"
Bob said, "Yes, it is fun!"
Primal Instincts (18%) -- Ugh. In this one, parents have their babies experimented on to make them into animal shapeshifters. Why? So the kids can take part in deathsports on TV. Sigh. I'm so sick of Hunger Games plots. Enough of adults making kids fight to the death for their entertainment! On top of the tired plot, the writing was poor and full of errors.
Partial book credits:
Point reached in these book: 26% + 4% + 6% + 18% = 54%
Previous abandoned book total: 315%
New total: 369% (three books)
Going Rogue by Drew Hayes
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Liked(Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
Siege Tactics by Drew Hayes
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Liked(Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
Books #3 and #4 in a series, these two follow so many characters through the real world and a fictional (tabletop fantasy) world. In the real world, a "Spells, Swords, & Stealth" group (Dungeons and Dragons group) runs into real life magic, sometimes pulling them into the fantasy world.
In the fictional world, there's a number of groups the plot follows. The characters played by those real world people, another party made up of NPCs, and others.
I LOVED the first book of this series (a party of PCs dies in an encounter and a party of NPCs steps in to take over the mission). By book four, it's got so beyond that simple, fun plot. Now there are magic artifacts that bridge the two worlds, and other stuff. It's not bad, it's just that I liked the first book better.
There was a whole lot I liked about these two books. The main characters were great (the ones in the fantasy world), and I really enjoyed seeing them learning and growing. They're all such great, flawed characters. The worldbuilding (especially how the gods worked) was really nice, too.
All in all, both of these were really fun reads. I'm looking forward to the next one.
Before those two, I had two unfinished ones.
Full Moon City (26%) -- Abandoned it two months ago. I no longer remember what it was about or why. Bad me!
The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men (4%) -- Abandoned it two months ago. I believe it was an anthology, but not formatted for ebook reading, so the only way to skip a story and move to the next one was page by page flipping. First story didn't work for me, and not worth the effort to get to the next one.
After Going Rogue and Siege Tactics, I had two more I abandoned.
The Spaceship Took Us To Octavia (6%) -- Wasn't awful, but the voice of the writing didn't work for me. I think it was British maybe? The writing was so dry:
Bob said, "Let's go play."
Mark said, "Okay."
They ran to the park to play.
Mark said, "Isn't this fun?"
Bob said, "Yes, it is fun!"
Primal Instincts (18%) -- Ugh. In this one, parents have their babies experimented on to make them into animal shapeshifters. Why? So the kids can take part in deathsports on TV. Sigh. I'm so sick of Hunger Games plots. Enough of adults making kids fight to the death for their entertainment! On top of the tired plot, the writing was poor and full of errors.
Partial book credits:
Point reached in these book: 26% + 4% + 6% + 18% = 54%
Previous abandoned book total: 315%
New total: 369% (three books)
