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[Soo]

Nameless S2 by Dean Koontz is on KU Read & Listen. You can read/listen to Season 1 + 2. I just finished S2 and it was very satisfying! Great episodic shorts. =)

[Brian]

I love that series.

[Soo]

I think most of Cradle series by Will Wight is currently on Audible Plus.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Soo wrote: "I think most of Cradle series by Will Wight is currently on Audible Plus."

all of Will Wight's books were on Audible Plus a couple weeks ago... then most got pulled... I'd grabbed Of Sea and Shadow, then a padlock appeared...

[Soo]

His early series is on there too. It's probably on for a limited time. I'm not a fan of Of Sea & Shadow. I LOVED the idea of the series, but the writing doesn't work for me like Cradle.

[Soo]

I really like Webtoon. =)
Not all of the comics are amazing art/plot, but I've found plenty of fun stories to follow. There are several long series on there. Which is nice because I can read those while waiting for the new release series that I suckered myself into. lol

The Gamer is currently in Season 5 and has over 300 posts. =D

Story starts off as a slice of life that transitions into classic RPG. Main character wakes up one day and finds out that he has status screens like a mmorpg. You follow along as he figures out how that works and the way it changes his life on all fronts. Nice mix of humor, action and twists. Good use of different mythologies/ideologies in the magic/fighting.

[Soo]

Junkyward #4 was released on Audible. I have it wish listed for later. =)

[Soo]

August 17 will be a nice release day! =)

Sandman Slim - King Bullet #12
Pendergast - Bloodless #20
Finder - The Scavenger Door #3

[Soo]

Hey, gang. I just found out that there are more books in the Never Die world. I just got the audio via KU+Audio for Pawn's Gambit. Let me know if ya'll want to BR it. =)

#3 comes out on September 28th. I'm going to guess the audiobook will be released next year.

[Brian]

I’m in

[Soo]

Yay! Let me know when. =D

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Really liked Grey Bastards by Jonathan French… BR setup by Chris and Siobhan… never read the author before and can’t wait to finish trilogy and maybe try other books…

Fantasy about half-orc warbands that ride feral hogs called barbarians…

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Let me see which of Will’s books are still available. I wanted to get to them. Also hello… It’s been a while 😬🤣

[Soo]

Yanique wrote: "Let me see which of Will’s books are still available. I wanted to get to them. Also hello… It’s been a while 😬🤣"

Hi!

I think all of them are on Audible +. He also sells the ebooks for cheap/free a few times a year. At least, he did that last year.

[Soo]

Timelord Iain wrote: "Really liked Grey Bastards by Jonathan French… BR setup by Chris and Siobhan… never read the author before and can’t wait to finish trilogy and maybe try other books…

Fantasy about half-orc warban..."

You shoulda read it with me. XD
I totally went to the BR thread to see what you thought. It's a great book! #2 is good, but different from what I had expected. Excited to read #3 when it's released.

I don't think French has a bunch of books out yet. *goes to check*
Grey Bastards was the first.

[Soo]

... Ugh, I'm not sure if it'll be any good but Tao Wong partnered up for System Apocalypse spin-off series. Going to check it out. I think Craig Hamilton is one of the people that wrote a short story for SA. Book is probably an expansion of the short.

[Soo]

Also, anyone else able to borrow more than normal on KU? Cause mine definitely went over the 10 limit.

[Yanique, Thread Master]

Soo wrote: "Yanique wrote: "Let me see which of Will’s books are still available. I wanted to get to them. Also hello… It’s been a while 😬🤣"

Hi!

I think all of them are on Audible +. He also sells the ebooks..."

I got the series on audio. I need more audiobooks now that I'm commuting to work again. My physical TBR is lengthy.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Soo wrote: "Timelord Iain wrote: "Really liked Grey Bastards by Jonathan French… BR setup by Chris and Siobhan… never read the author before and can’t wait to finish trilogy and maybe try other books…

Fantasy..."

I basically raved about it from about the halfway point onwards... so many unexpected events and great payoffs... BOO for no backlog of books I can read...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Soo wrote: "Also, anyone else able to borrow more than normal on KU? Cause mine definitely went over the 10 limit."

It's been awhile since I was told to delete something to make room... but I also regularly delete to keep my library clean, so if I went over, it wasn't for long, since I've been using the Kindle App lately...

[Soo]

I always have the max checked out. So, when I want to get a new one, I have to remove an item. That hasn't been happening for the past month or so. I have Prime & KU, but that never made my KU limit higher. I'm thinking that some of the KU+Audio that I've borrowed may be Prime only and it went towards that. Except, before my KU total would also count the Prime elligbles. No idea, but I have 12 borrowed right now. It was 17 with the Nameless shorts I had.

[Soo]

*insert ghost emoji* LOL

Due to recommending SF books to someone, I was reminded about how much I loved Sirantha Jax series. I went to look up the audios and the narrator sounds like a cheesy teen! Totally wrong for MC or the story. Yuck

So I won't be adding the audios to my libray. XD

Also, found out there's a book posted as read in 2021 that was actually added as a general read. So, I'm down a book? LoL

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I read 1-2 Sirantha Jax books at some point... I quit at the good stopping point early on, before the plot expanded...

I just noticed The Wandering Inn: Book 4 - Winter Solstice came out last week... I forgot that was out so soon... I've been trying to muddle through Wistram Days since not long after finishing the 3rd audiobook... it's a very long tangent in the story...

I was looking at the audible ratings/revies, and you can clearly tell which reviewers aren't aware of the web serial, because they're very unhappy with how long is spent on Wistram Days and Rags...

I'm kinda hoping the audiobook will help me get past Wistram Days... I like everything else, but Wistram is just a very long side story... and the longest Interlude from what I can tell... all other Interludes are only 2-4 parts and more spread out... I think online, Pirateaba said they banged out Wistram Days because if they didn't do it all at once, it would have dragged on forever...

[Soo]

I finished my audiobook re-read of the Hobbit and it was great! Rob Inglis did a great job narrating the story. There's singing too! I didn't re-read the Hobbit like I did the main books for the Lord of the Rings. It wasn't exactly what I remembered, and yet it wasn't unfamiliar. A nice mix of sorta new and known.

Wandering Inn - I have the audiobook. I started to listen to it and realized it was Wistram and quit. LOL So, if I wanted to tear big chunks of inconsistencies into Wandering Inn, the Wistram Days would be a good place to start. lol

It is good info that you kinda need because there's more in depth involvement with Wistram as the volumes progress. However, the way Pirateaba pieced Wistram Days together is fairly lopsided and not entirely interesting. Rags story is more interesting, but those portions aren't as well written as other POV's because Pirateaba hasn't quite figured out how to write them. You can always tell when she's trying to figure out a POV, because it goes from rough draft all this stuff is happening mode to closer perspective of something important/silly. It took the author about to Vol5 to hack out King of Destruction. I like KoD more now (Vol8) than I did when he was introduced.

There's an interview of the author somewhere and s/he talked about which ones were harder to write, etc.

I'm a little worried about the current volume. I like most of the stuff that's happening, but I feel like we're back in the "not sure how to get the story from point ____ to ____" again.

Like, I'm glad the writer is expanding the webserial to audiobook, making a comic, let someone make a WI game, etc, but all of that takes time and effort. Pretty sure the writer is not a good organizer and that impacts how everything gets done. One of the things the author is trying to do is get an editor. So, testing out how that process works with a few experiments, etc and figuring out costs, etc. I hope s/he works it out! I like Wandering Inn and I do want to read the END of the story. XD

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I read Strongest Florist last night and this morning... they need to hurry up and translate episodes 25-54+ into English... I saw on the webcomic wiki that it started publishing in Korean a year before it started publishing in English, so it's a fair amount ahead...

[Soo]

It's really funny, right? I like it a lot! There are several great comics on Webtoon. It's pretty nice! I like most of the action ones, Sweet Home Sweet is solid horror and lots of LitRPG style ones that are funny/clever/action.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Mentioned how Green Bone Saga finally got me to start the 2nd War of the Rose Throne book, over in the Jade City thread… but I didn’t want to rave too much about how much easier it was tk keep reading… already read 6 of 22hrs… it’s like Peaky Blinders with Magic… but I’ve only watched the first season of the show, so I dunno how similar the 2nd and 3rd books are to the show…

[Soo]

How did Green Bone Saga influence you to read the other book? Not too much in common between the two, right?

[Soo]

I have the Priest of Bones in my TBR and it's in the latest Audible sale. I may get it. =D

I did get:

- Cold Iron #1 by Miles Cameron
- The Wolf's Call #1 by Anthony Ryan

- Player Piano by Kurt Vonneget
- King of Scars #1 by Leigh Bardugo

Okay, I got:

- Priest of Bones #1 by Peter McLean
- Missing You by Harlan Coben

The War for the Rose Throne series has 3 books out. Last book is slated to be released in 2022.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

it's a series I like... i think I paused before because I had BRs to read...

I'm unsure if it's a trilogy/quad or a longer-planned series...

The series takes place after a brutal war, and opens with reclaiming old criminal empire... and kinda balloons from there into a shadow war with the losing enemies from the war, as they try to take control from within through criminal intermediaries... which leads the MC on an upward trajectory of power...

I really liked the 2nd book... it was only 11hrs, my audio file was reading double... I had an inkling around hour 8 when things were building to a climax... I had mixed feelings about the last 10% tho, after the climax played out...

One main plot thread of the book felt like a rehash of the first book, only to be a waste of time when the MCs hopes were dashed at the end... so that whole plotline ended up annoying me...

3rd book should be interesting, tho...

[Brian]

I picked up. Age of Assassins
Gutter Prayer

[Soo]

I looked up the books. Reviews (no spoiler reviews by authors I follow/friends) said that #3 was great and that the whole thing will wrap up in #4.

Right now, I think I have too many "mystery" type stories to read. So, I've been digging into my GIGANTIC have but haven't read pile to read other story types.

Currently reading March Upcountry #1 and I like it! Good SF, coming of age type. Prince Roger is learning to be more than a "noble".

[Narilka]

I am enjoying Treadbare #2 immensely. About 40% in now. (view spoiler)[Threadbare making everyone into toy golems and the whole process/commentary around it has been hilarious! No need to keep going on quests, I'd hang out with this little group any day just for fun LOL Zuula explaining tits... Garon's epic fail with dragon breath... Mogsey (I think that's the spelling) and Mrs Fluffbear... Mads testing sunlight doing the hokey pokey... this is pure awesome :D

I'll be very interested to see if the other toys can unlock more job slots eventually and be more like Threadbare and Mrs Fluffbear. I think they're a higher class of golem. (hide spoiler)]

[Narilka]

And now to check out that Audible sale. Sounds like there's some great titles in there.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Narilka wrote: "..."

Threadbare is a hidden gem... it's a shame it takes such effort to get people to try the trilogy, because like you said, it's pure awesome...

[Soo]

Yay Threadbare! =)
Glad you're enjoying it.

[Soo]

Brian wrote: "I picked up. Age of Assassins
Gutter Prayer"

Let me know what you think of Gutter Prayer. I like the idea for the story, but turned off by the narrator. lol

Oh yeah, when do you want to read Pawn's Gambit?

[Brian]

I’m good in a day or two for Pawns Gambit. Just finishing up this trilogy. Almost done with book 2

[Narilka]

I went with Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold and the Andy Serkis narration of The Hobbit, or There and Back Again.

[Soo]

Brian, I liked the Society of the Sword. =)
How is the Preternatural Chronicles? Good popcorn?

Narilka, I just did my first audio re-read of the Hobbit. I loved it! I have the Rob Inglis narration for Hobbit & the Lord of the Rings. It was more fun to re-read than I thought it would be.

[Brian]

Society of the Sword is good. Easy listening and not too complex. Good characters and a fun story.


Preternatural Chronicles is awesome! Hidden gem. Funny and dark. I highly recommend

[Soo]

Woohoo! Ok, I had my eye on that one for a while, but hedged on getting it because unknown author. Got the first one. =D

[Soo]

Maybe I need to start writing reviews again or keep a book journal. LOL

Even I can't believe I read over 900 books last year and I'll probably get close to that again this year.

Also, I'll start a new Vagabond Club thread for 2022. LoL =D Glad to see we've been hanging out! (In December.) Hahahha

[Soo]

I've been checking up on the Nolyn BR and it doesn't sound like the writing is getting back to the quality from the initial Riyria books. That makes me sad. MJS was a go to author for me to buy books without thinking about it. However, I didn't enjoy the way the Age of Myth books were written and plotted. It felt too forced vs mix of writing states to me. I'll wait for the latest trilogy to be completed and see about purchasing the books then.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Half my problem with Legend of the First Empire, is I feel I should have waited to read the last 3 books all at once... which kinda makes sense... I think it was originally only 4 books, not 6... that 4th book ended up broken into 3 books...

I also kinda know MJS isn't automatically gonna write books I like, after trying Hollow World shortly after Riyria...

All leading into my plan to wait...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Finally continued with 3rd Shadows of the Apt book, 2 months late (I technically started just in time for BR points, then never actually made much progress... but it seems serendipitous, since Olivia made a message today, after I read half the book... so probably gonna get that BR chugging along again...)... 4th book will be the end of the first story arc, I think... there's 3 arcs across the 10 books...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I just realized today that Michael R. Fletcher made it to audiobooks/Audible, and I've wanted to read more of his stuff forever...

Any of you interested in anything... the first thing I tried to make time for on ebook was Beyond Redemption, going on 4 years ago...

Most of his stuff is on KU, so the audiobooks are 7.49... lemme know...

[Soo]

I'm down for Beyond Redemption. I saw that a few days ago. The books are no longer on KU, so it'll be the credit route to get them or we can wait for the book to go on sale. I'm sure that will happen.

Sorry about Shadows of the Apt series. I fell off the planned BR wagon. >.< I'm good with the general ones from the clubs.

Are you enjoying the books? I know part of my reluctance was it would cost credits for me and I was so-so on the narrator.

[Brian]

Timelord Iain wrote: "I just realized today that Michael R. Fletcher made it to audiobooks/Audible, and I've wanted to read more of his stuff forever...

Any of you interested in anything... the first thing I tried to m..."

I am in. Lemme finish Pawn's Gambit first with Soo (Starting tmrw). Should knock that out in a day or two then I can be ready.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Soo wrote: "I'm down for Beyond Redemption. I saw that a few days ago. The books are no longer on KU, so it'll be the credit route to get them or we can wait for the book to go on sale. I'm sure that will happ..."

Manifest Delusions and Swarm and Steel are the only 2 missing from KU... Mirror's Truth #2 is still on KU... Swarm and Steel hasn't released on audio yet... Mirror's Truth only came out 2 months ago...