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A physicist reviews Dominic Stal's 'The Last Physicist'

For those coming here from reddit or similar, I'll come clean. I had high expectations for this book. As a physicist myself, a book about a physicist using the scientific method to put some hard rules to magic and delve into the mechanics had me almost giddy with excitement. So I dove into this book, and, I'll be frank, came away disappointed.

A review of Zamil Akhtar's Lightblade

Disclosure: I received this book in advance and without cost in exchange for an honest review. Counter-disclosure: I already pay for KU, so I would have been able to read it for 'free' anyway.

A review of Naomi Novik's Scholomance Series

I didn't expect to read a book from the perspective of an emotional teenage girl and love every page.

A review of Maxime J. Durand's 'The Perfect Run'

It's been a quite a few years since the Alchemist distributed Elixirs into the world, each which grant a unique super power. Since then, modern civilisation has collapsed, because giving some people phenomenal power tends to go badly a lot of the time. Quicksave begins the book searching for his childhood friend, Len, and determined to go through every chapter in his life with a perfect run. Which, as you might have guessed from the hero name, is possible thanks to his ability to set a checkpoint in time he can revert to on death. He can also pause time for up to ten seconds too, which helps get things done.

A Review of CasualFarmer's Cultivation novel 'Beware of Chicken'

As of writing this review, I have read all 212 published chapters on Royal Road.

A Review of Zogarth's LitRPG 'The Primal Hunter'

I'm just going to come out and say it. If you've read Defiance of the Fall and enjoyed it, you will love The Primal Hunter. It has a similar premise, similar (minimal) base-building and progression, but with better characters and less deus ex machina.

A Review of Tobias Begley's progression fantasy work 'The Enchanter'

Let's get the obvious out the way and let me expand on the description above. If you've read the Arcane Ascension series and loved Corin's approach to life, just save yourself some time, click the amazon link above, and go and get this book. If you haven't, but you've read Mother of Learning and appreciated Zorian there, same comment.

A Review of 'Defiance of the Fall', a system-apocalypse LitRPG / cultivation hybrid.

As of the time of writing this review, I have read all four books on KU, and a further 200 chapters on RR, up to and including the time skip.

A Review of J. R. Mathews's 'Jakes Magical Market', a fun LitRPG apocalypse romb with a card based system.

Before I picked up this book, I must have seen Jake's Magical Market recommended a dozen times on the /r/ProgressionFantasy subreddit. It even got a shoutout from Bryce O'Connor, and then, after about ten more people told me to read it, I pulled the trigger, added it to my Kindle, and then I read the entire thing���all eight hundred pages���in a single weekend.