[Whisperzzzzzzz]

 pat5150, on 29 April 2025 - 03:01 PM, said:

 Whisperzzzzzzz, on 28 April 2025 - 08:28 PM, said:

Making my way through Moon's Deeds of Paksenarrion and enjoying it. I can't help but feel like Paks is the player character in a solo D&D campaign though...

Don't know where you're at, but I just finished the second volume and man did things take a shocking turn!

Book 2, Chapter 20. Excited for whatever twists may come and shake the story up!

 amphibian, on 29 April 2025 - 03:08 PM, said:

 pat5150, on 29 April 2025 - 03:01 PM, said:

 Whisperzzzzzzz, on 28 April 2025 - 08:28 PM, said:

Making my way through Moon's Deeds of Paksenarrion and enjoying it. I can't help but feel like Paks is the player character in a solo D&D campaign though...

Don't know where you're at, but I just finished the second volume and man did things take a shocking turn!

What Moon does with that series and the follow up one is brilliant. Extremely impressive writing and it takes a bit of faith from the reader that she's not taking you into the boring tropes.

Good to know!

[Chance]

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 28 April 2025 - 08:28 PM, said:

Making my way through Moon's Deeds of Paksenarrion and enjoying it. I can't help but feel like Paks is the player character in a solo D&D campaign though...

Pretty sure Moon has confirmed it was a D&D campaign at least partially.

Abyss, on 29 April 2025 - 04:26 PM, said:

JPK, on 29 April 2025 - 04:06 PM, said:

Abyss, on 29 April 2025 - 03:41 PM, said:

Chance, on 29 April 2025 - 05:02 AM, said:

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Abyss, on 28 April 2025 - 01:39 PM, said:

Chance, on 27 April 2025 - 09:54 AM, said:

Probably finishing the Raven Strategem today having taking a lot of time mostly because I haven't had any good reading time recently but it is pretty damn good when I get a few hours.

Just Finished RAVEN STRATEGEM, very satisfying book. The author worked in some great twists, where the reader knows more than the characters but will doubt what they think they know. Straight on to bk 3, REVENANT GUN, which has an excellent start.

Yeah this re-read is cementing it as one of the recentish greats of SF.

Also continuing into the Revenant Gun which I don't think I've re-read yet.

The whole trilogy (so far) is extremely clever and well written. There is so much risk to what the author does w the setting

Spoiler

the calendrical system

and it's kind of stunning how well he pulls it off.

I think my favorite part of the entire series is how well he tends to take expectations and flip the table. Book 2 spoiler territory:

Spoiler

When Mikodez is introduced he seems so clear cut to be a character you are meant to hate. I mean, his sister transitioned into his brother that happens to be a physical copy of him. Oh and they fuck. But somehow Mikodez turns into one of the best characters in that book (and series overall.)

leaving aside some of the particularly iccy elements, those characters and their relationship were fascinating.

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i was not surprised by Mik turning on the other Hexarchs, or that he allowed Istra to be the suicide weapon that did it, but i was surprised at how much i actually cared.

Even minor characters like the droids in the hidden base are wonderful to read and of course Cheris will notice their stone garden. The author is awesome at building up the least expected characters and making me care.

I think something very refreshing with the unconventional relationships (which is most all of them) and sexuality in the book is they don't become the point of the character or the main driver for the plot but compliments to understanding who they are. No one in world cares or even knows about current day or last century morals. They live in their own strange and fascinating reality something few authors completely pull off.

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[QuickTidal]

Re-reading Erin M. Evans second Brimstone Angels book LESSER EVILS as a primer to finally read the final three in the series. I'm enjoying it even more this time than I did the first time. Evans keeps things compelling throughout.

After this if I'm still on a D&D kick I'll finally dive back into the Drizzt lineup with SERVANT OF THE SHARD (which is technically book 14, though I understand it doesn't feature much Drizzt and is more about Entreri and Jarlaxle, which is fine), which is next up in my now-years-long first time read of these books.

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