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Brian Thompson

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Brian Thompson was born and raised in Minnesota. His first professional writing foray was as a freelancer for Cracked.com. One of his articles was chosen to be published in Cracked.com’s first physical collection You Might be a Zombie and Other Bad News which made the NYT Non-Fiction bestseller list. Being surrounded by other talented writers, he saw many of them participate in National Novel Writing Month. One November he decided to try too and failed miserably, but it did kick off the start of his first novel, The Observer. Many of the items researched while writing for Cracked.com were inspirations for parts of the novel.

When not writing, Brian enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, singing with the Angelica Encore Choral E
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Irreverent, dark, crass, and funny. Everything the title promises.

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A wonderful fae Urban Fantasy

It's started with a job, it ended with pulling back the veil on a whole different society hiding among us. Great world-building, and a very imaginative magic system.
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A wonderful start to a series.

This book feels like a tale told by a mysterious figure in the corner of a tavern. "You want to know how The Veilguard really came together?" Interrupting some wild, but ultimately incorrect theories being thrown around.
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A fun, wondrous, and philosophically deep portal fantasy.

This book has the perfect mix of high-fantasy world-building, philosophical musing about the fabric of reality, and commiseration about being an awkward teenager. It blends enough fantasy trope
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A fun introduction to Mafia Romance

I'll admit that I usually roll my eyes at specific sub-niches of romance, and Mafia was one of them, but this was a fun and spicy introduction to the genre for me. I highly recommend it and I'll have to add the sequ
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An imaginative fantasy with great representation.

I started this book feeling like it was directed more at middle age children. Then the world of Lysomnus kept getting deeper, more intricate and the themes matured and really settled into the YA space.
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A fascinating premise presented in a hilarious and heartfelt manner.

Grimtome is a Book Goblin. "What's a Book Goblin?" you're asking, fellow Bobs. Or are we all just collectively a singular Bob, like the Holy Trinity, but just an amalgamation of shar
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A wonderful epic fantasy

The breadth of the world-building in this story was wonderful. It felt like discovering a brand new high fantasy TTRPG source book at the beginning and kept me hooked through the whole story.
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A wonderful story mingling vampire lore and magic sigils.

If you enjoy dark vampire romance stories, this book has what you're looking for. A unique take on vampirism and an imaginative magic system. Along with the spice I know you're craving. Highly
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