[Salt-Man Z]

Karen Miller's Kingmaker, Kingbreaker duology (The Innocent Mage/The Awakened Mage)? The omnibus is on the clearance rack for $2, and I'm wondering if I should pick it up...

[Baco Xtath]

Salt-Man Z, on 17 December 2015 - 06:51 PM, said:

Karen Miller's Kingmaker, Kingbreaker duology (The Innocent Mage/The Awakened Mage)? The omnibus is on the clearance rack for $2, and I'm wondering if I should pick it up...

I read it about 8 years ago and thought it sucked. There is way too much good shit out to waste your time on stuff like this.

[Coco with marshmallows]

Baco Xtath, on 17 December 2015 - 08:35 PM, said:

Salt-Man Z, on 17 December 2015 - 06:51 PM, said:

Karen Miller's Kingmaker, Kingbreaker duology (The Innocent Mage/The Awakened Mage)? The omnibus is on the clearance rack for $2, and I'm wondering if I should pick it up...

I read it about 8 years ago and thought it sucked. There is way too much good shit out to waste your time on stuff like this.

Seconded. Though i only read the first one.

[Salt-Man Z]

Baco Xtath, on 17 December 2015 - 08:35 PM, said:

I read it about 8 years ago and thought it sucked. There is way too much good shit out to waste your time on stuff like this.

Coco with marshmallows, on 17 December 2015 - 09:59 PM, said:

Seconded. Though i only read the first one.

Thanks, fellas. Then I won't waste my money, and more importantly my (pretty much non-existent) shelf space.

[Baco Xtath]

Anyone read Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia? If so, any good? And, yes, I know his personal antics suck but it doesn't factor into the decision for me.

[Morgoth]

I tried reading one of his books. His prose is sub par and the entire thing was packed too the brim with right wing ideology. It's what Goodkind would have written if he had no shame.

[Macros]

Goodkind has shame?

[Morgoth]

Macros, on 24 December 2015 - 11:31 AM, said:

Goodkind has shame?

You must truly be hungover today.

[Maark Abbott]

Salt-Man Z, on 17 December 2015 - 06:51 PM, said:

Karen Miller's Kingmaker, Kingbreaker duology (The Innocent Mage/The Awakened Mage)? The omnibus is on the clearance rack for $2, and I'm wondering if I should pick it up...

It's very twee and predictable. Not unenjoyable but below average (slumskumbledy).

[Mark Lawrence]

I've just started Janny Wurts's Curse of the Mist Wraith. I only know her through the trilogy she wrote with Feist (which I really liked). Is this one good? It's certainly a fat book!

[Macros]

Morgoth, on 24 December 2015 - 11:36 AM, said:

Macros, on 24 December 2015 - 11:31 AM, said:

Goodkind has shame?

You must truly be hungover today.

Really?
The man who said gang rape is democracy in action strikes me.as fairly shameless

[Puck]

..Steph Swainston?

I ask because my friend asked me about her, and I was like 'Eh, never heard of her', and also because the premise of The Year of Our War sounds like it could be either good stuff, or.. less good stuff.


..the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne?

I may be in need of a new popcorn-y urban fantasy series when I'm done with Cal Leandros.

This post has been edited by Puck Puckster: 25 December 2015 - 09:07 PM

[Imperial Historian]

Mark Lawrence, on 25 December 2015 - 08:09 PM, said:

I've just started Janny Wurts's Curse of the Mist Wraith. I only know her through the trilogy she wrote with Feist (which I really liked). Is this one good? It's certainly a fat book!

It's quite good, but in my view the empire trilogy she wrote with feist is the best work both of them did.

[Chance]

Puck Puckster, on 25 December 2015 - 09:00 PM, said:

..Steph Swainston?

I ask because my friend asked me about her, and I was like 'Eh, never heard of her', and also because the premise of The Year of Our War sounds like it could be either good stuff, or.. less good stuff.

Very good in my opinion but it isn't universally praised, it's also a series of books unlikely to ever get a final resolution thought the books are fairly self contained but nothing to start for completionists really.

[Abyss]

Puck Puckster, on 25 December 2015 - 09:00 PM, said:

..the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne?

I may be in need of a new popcorn-y urban fantasy series when I'm done with Cal Leandros.

Decent, usually entertaining, esp when the author is working with less known mythos like Native American or India. Avoid the earbooks like an aural plague.

[Andorion]

Puck Puckster, on 25 December 2015 - 09:00 PM, said:

..Steph Swainston?

I ask because my friend asked me about her, and I was like 'Eh, never heard of her', and also because the premise of The Year of Our War sounds like it could be either good stuff, or.. less good stuff.


..the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne?

I may be in need of a new popcorn-y urban fantasy series when I'm done with Cal Leandros.

Regarding Iron Druid, the first few books are quite entertaining, the last two books, not as much. And as an Indian, take the Indian mythology with a pinch of salt.

[Abyss]

Andorion, on 26 December 2015 - 02:27 AM, said:

Puck Puckster, on 25 December 2015 - 09:00 PM, said:

..Steph Swainston?

I ask because my friend asked me about her, and I was like 'Eh, never heard of her', and also because the premise of The Year of Our War sounds like it could be either good stuff, or.. less good stuff.


..the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne?

I may be in need of a new popcorn-y urban fantasy series when I'm done with Cal Leandros.

Regarding Iron Druid, the first few books are quite entertaining, the last two books, not as much. And as an Indian, take the Indian mythology with a pinch of salt.

That's fair comment re pretty much all of the mythologies Hearne works in, except possibly the Celtic that he seems to know well, and maybe the Greek/Roman that's hardly novel. But I can hardly criticize an urbfantasy author taking liberties with myths. However his vamps and weres are boring, weakest part of the series.

[Puck]

I think that's something to keep in mind re pretty much all urban fantasy, as otherwise it'd all be the same and they have to keep it interesting somehow. Which is why I mostly look for good writing and plot instead of autheticity. However, thanks for the comments, sounds like it's not a absolute no on Iron Druid.

Chance, on 25 December 2015 - 11:50 PM, said:

Puck Puckster, on 25 December 2015 - 09:00 PM, said:

..Steph Swainston?

I ask because my friend asked me about her, and I was like 'Eh, never heard of her', and also because the premise of The Year of Our War sounds like it could be either good stuff, or.. less good stuff.

Very good in my opinion but it isn't universally praised, it's also a series of books unlikely to ever get a final resolution thought the books are fairly self contained but nothing to start for completionists really.

Thanks, I'll pass it on. My friend's less about completion than about good writing, so that sounds good. Any more comments re Swainston are appreciated

[Andorion]

Puck Puckster, on 26 December 2015 - 09:59 AM, said:

I think that's something to keep in mind re pretty much all urban fantasy, as otherwise it'd all be the same and they have to keep it interesting somehow. Which is why I mostly look for good writing and plot instead of autheticity. However, thanks for the comments, sounds like it's not a absolute no on Iron Druid.

Chance, on 25 December 2015 - 11:50 PM, said:

Puck Puckster, on 25 December 2015 - 09:00 PM, said:

..Steph Swainston?

I ask because my friend asked me about her, and I was like 'Eh, never heard of her', and also because the premise of The Year of Our War sounds like it could be either good stuff, or.. less good stuff.

Very good in my opinion but it isn't universally praised, it's also a series of books unlikely to ever get a final resolution thought the books are fairly self contained but nothing to start for completionists really.

Thanks, I'll pass it on. My friend's less about completion than about good writing, so that sounds good. Any more comments re Swainston are appreciated

I believe he has a hero who actually flies. As in with wings. Which idea struck me as very cool

[Coco with marshmallows]

Have read Swainston, pretty interesting books, unusual premise and does quite well with them.

Worth a read i'd say.