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City in the Dragon's Eye by Jordan Loyal Short review

 

    CITY IN THE DRAGON’S EYE by Jordan Loyal Short is one of the best fantasy novels written in 2024 and like the author’s DREADBOUND ODE series or Richard Nell’s KINGS OF PARADISE, probably the best thing you can get for “fantasy literature” on Kindle Unlimited. If you think this is overly high praise, take my advice when I say that this is a five-star book of an actual scale were five means “fantastic” not “I have no real complaints and don’t want to undermine the author due to the int...

Lords of Dragon Keep excerpt

Hey folks, 

We’d thought you’d love to read a short chapter from the recently released LitRPG Lords of Dragon Keep by C.T. Phipps. A humorous tale of an ordinary man dumped into a world that is, unfortunately, more Game of Thrones than Narnia.

Chapter One – The Book is Finally Completed

“You want me to what?” I asked, looking up from my cubicle. It contained a messy collection of papers, Post-it notes, and a pewter dragon that was the only sign of my humanity permitted by employers. Such was t...

Two new series on Kindle Unlimited

Hey folks,

I'm pleased to announce that there's now two more series of mine available in Kindle Unlimited. The first of these is LORDS OF DRAGON KEEP, which is my new fantasy parody series. It is to the fantasy genre what the Supervillainy Saga is to superheroes. The second is FUTUREPUNK, which is the collected volumes of AGENT G, THE CYBER DRAGONS TRILOGY, and MOON COPS ON THE MOON.

LORDS OF DRAGON KEEP

"Give me the incredibly short summary of what the hell is going on, please. The...

Clan Novel: Ravnos by Kathleen Ryan review

    CLAN NOVEL: RAVNOS is the eighth novel in the Clan Novel series for the Vampire: The Masquerade line of tabletop RPGs. I’ve been re-reading the series for the past couple of years and enjoying the world of conspiracies, action, and interlocking plotlines. The series is not without its flaws and wildly changes tones as well as themes depending on the characters. However, it is still something that I think to be quite fun. I also note that the twelve book series has its own smaller seri...

Elfsong by Elain Cunningham review

    ELFSONG is the second of Elaine Cunningham’s fantastic SONGS AND SWORDS series that was also part of the Harpers series (confused yet?). They’re a set of books which follow Harper Assassin (as in a Harper who is an Assassin not an assassin of Harpers, though she was accused of that too), Arilyn Moonblade, and Danilo Than who is a Wizard/Fighter who pretends to be a Bard but is also a Harper. Okay, now I’ve confused myself. The first book, Elfshadow, was fantastic and really deserved a...

Feminism and Fantasy: The Women of Elden Ring

“Fantasy and Feminism” is going to be a series of articles that provides analysis of strong female characters and their role in stories that tend toward the grim as well as dark. A short analysis of those properties that exist in hopeless and shadow-filled worlds that benefit from good writing toward its female protagonists (or antagonists). There will be spoilers for the plot of the game so let the reader beware.

What is Elden Ring?

Elden Ring is a Dark Souls-esque game FromSoftware as wr...

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erd Tree review

    ELDEN RING: SHADOW OF THE ERD TREE is a DLC expansion for the Hidetaka Miyazaki and George R.R. Martin penned Elden Ring. The premise of the game is that the God Queen Marika has shattered the Elden Ring out of grief for her murdered demigod son, Godwyn the Golden. This has plunged the Lands Between into a horrific civil war where the dead rise and chaos reigns. The player character, the Tarnished of No Renown, has set upon a quest to become the new Elden Lord by repairing the Elden Ring the...

Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher review

    PALADIN’S GRACE by T. Kingfisher is the first of the SAINT OF STEEL series that follows the adventures of several paladins after they lose their god to some unseen event. Perhaps I should specify that it follows their “romantic” adventures. The Saint of Steel series is part of a genre called “Romantasy” which is basically romance novels that happen to take place in high fantasy or similar settings. Sort of a sister genre to paranormal romance that primarily takes place in urban fantasy...

New Release Sale - Lords of Dragon Keep

"Give me the incredibly short summary of what the hell is going on, please. The kind you could fit into a movie trailer."

“You’re trapped in a video game world based on a hack dark fantasy author’s rip-off of better books.”
“Uh huh. Maybe you could be a bit more detailed.”

Aragorn "Aaron" Bartkowski was a programmer working at Epic DungeoneeringTM, the world's largest fantasy video game company. Much to his surprise, he was selected to pick up the latest manuscript from reclusive author Larry C.C. ...

Forgotten Realms: The Ring of Winter by James Lowder review

“Mezro?” Artus managed to gasp. “I discovered the lost city of Mezro?”

Rayburton’s gentle laughter filled the library. “It’s hardly lost to the people who have lived here for four thousand years,” he noted. “But if you want to put it that way, the Mezroans probably won’t mind. I said the same thing when I stumbled across the place, and they haven’t thrown me out yet.”

    THE RING OF WINTER by James Lowder is one of the Harpers series, back from when Forgotten Realms was publishing a lot of...