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Vagabond Treehouse (2023) [Beware of Chicken 3 - December 4th]
Even if on a watch list however they would just need to travel far enough away to where it wouldn't matter. I guess I'm just ranting cause I see no reason why these problems are happening for the two.
Reader frustration is real! You want them to do more, better, etc. Romy & Neri: Both of them are young with limited knowledge.
Neri is a young teen without that much education and roamed around like a little hoodlum. Plus fear from having magic, etc.
Romy had a terrible crap happen to her, but (view spoiler)
Within story context & what they know, it's not unusual to develop new patterns in known surroundings. Also, they're poor. Were you voting for Romy to go back to a whorehouse? That would have made money.
*playing devil's advocate* Woo~
Ya'll can blame Laura Tenfingers and Anthony Ryan but we should BR Norylska Groans. I believe it's a standalone and it's on KU. I'd have to ditch my webnovels for a bit to read the book, but I'd do it. lol
Doesn't have to be soon, but should I add the book to the Vagabond TBR List?
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Soo, The legendary Moonlight Sculpture, is volume one equal to novel 1 here on GR?I am done with Ch one, and I was not happy with the loan thugs at all... He just got into the new game... I am intrigued.
So I've read further and got to the part where they are trying to create a fake replica. (view spoiler)And yes the reader frustration is real xD
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I just reached the point where Romy hired Neri to make a door/etc to try and make him more useful/reliable... up to this point, he could definitely use a good wolloping (I think I saw Choko say this about somebody recently :D)
Hopefully this improves his temperament...
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And yes the reader frustration is real xD"
If characters act too idiotic, it can ruin a book for me... I'm just too impotently annoyed to enjoy anything... when it's bad, I pause alot, and the book takes twice as long to finish...
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I'm a fan of collective nouns...
An Argumentation of Historians
An Illusion of Thieves
Timelord Iain wrote: "Carol Berg / Cate Glass likes heaping pain on her characters... I haven't made much progress on the book, yet, but I read Transformation & Revelation last year... so muc..."I should've stopped that trilogy with book one, which I loved. The problem for me is that I grew more interested in Aleksander's story and what was going on with him but that was the stuff that was happening on the far peripheries of the story. I just wasn't that interested in Seyonne's search for the true history of his people.
@lain I think the title comes from any of the different events concerning Neri stealing something. That's my guess however and I'm not fully done with the book yet
Timelord Iain wrote: "Don't forget we're reading The Free Bastards this weekend, Soo :D"We didn't set a date for the Lot Lands but I'm down whenever you wanna read it. I have a ? by the title for the BR. lol
This weekend?
Choko wrote: "Soo, The legendary Moonlight Sculpture, is volume one equal to novel 1 here on GR?I am done with Ch one, and I was not happy with the loan thugs at all... He just got into the new game... I am in..."
Yay! You're reading it too. I've written several posts about the series. lol
So the books on GR, I think the page # is for the Korean version and not the translations. But the volume numbers do correlate.
If you're using the link I wrote for the story on Light Novel Pub, the Chapters are labeled with a Volume # and part 1.1/etc. So you can link the volumes on there to the volumes on GR. I'm reading it on a different website, but the volumes are the same.
Lee Hyun/Weed's background is given in pieces during the series. He had it really tough! Which are good reasons for why he turned out the way he did. lol
Illusion of Thieves and series title Chimera have a direct meaning for the book & series. =D Answer it towards where Julian is now in the book.
Julian, I HOPE there's more info in the next book! I totally wanna know more about the magic and have more heists.
Soo, I am up to Ch 3 in the Moonlight Sculpture, and I am hooked. I do wonder what number pages and all together how to mark it as reading here in GR. I am intrigued by how stubborn LH is! I am very interested in seeing where he goes from here:)
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We didn't set a date for the Lot Lands but I'm down whenever you wanna read it. I have a ? ..."
I had the 15th jotted down, because of what I said here: https://www.goodreads.com/comment/sho...
"Not until the 15th or so"
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The sibling issues seem to have resolved themselves handily... as a result, this story feels much more pleasant/forgiving than Rai-Kirah (@Veronica)
I also have a soft spot for heist stories... The Palace Job was great on KU... The Lies of Locke Lamora series started great... The Quantum Thief made my head hurt a bit, but I just rolled with it... The Quantum Magician had promise and the group-assembling aspect I usually like...
Heist stories are awesome! Not always great, but I look forward to discovering them. Parker series by Richard Stark are mostly heists and short. Julian, Romy's (view spoiler)
Choko wrote: "Soo, I am up to Ch 3 in the Moonlight Sculpture, and I am hooked. I do wonder what number pages and all together how to mark it as reading here in GR. I am intrigued by how stubborn LH is! I am ver..."He's very driven, isn't he? =D
The translations are well done for the first volume and then the quality is iffy after that but still readable.
Are you in Volume 1? Like Vol1.3? That would be 3rd chapter of Vol1. I know this can get a bit confusing. lol
Iain, I put myself down to start Free Bastards on 15th. =DI feel like I wasted time on the pseduo wannabe SF/Fantasy/LitRPG book that was on Audible Plus. Oh well, I couldn't stay on the Good to Awesome streak forever. lol
Oooh Illusion of Thieves is in the heisty genre? I can't resist those. I actually bought that one in the sale, hopefully I can start after I finish my current audio!
Emily wrote: "Oooh Illusion of Thieves is in the heisty genre? I can't resist those. I actually bought that one in the sale, hopefully I can start after I finish my current audio!"Hopefully, you'll feel like I did. Intrigued, grossed out, annoyed and then intrigued. lol
Plus, we can all count it as a BR book! =D
Yep, 1.3:) This is fun. I am very interested in seeing how and if he changes his opinion on sculpting:)
Choko wrote: "Yep, 1.3:) This is fun. I am very interested in seeing how and if he changes his opinion on sculpting:)"Lee Hyun is a different character to cheer for, right? He's super cranky, miserly, obstinate and proud. Yet, I can't dislike him because there's a reason for the way he is, and he's not actually a bad guy. Selfish in motivations, but motivated to be selfish for his small family.
Got Dakota Krout's newsletter today and the best news on it is that he's going to finally start working on the next Completionist Chronicles book! WOO! I'm not as excited about him selling books/etc on his website. I went to check it out today and it's not very good. lol I wonder if I should send him a note saying that?
has a cover now! Yay! Except, there's no news about audiobook on Audible. So, boo on that.
Aaaaaannnnddd finished! I loved the last chapter, I wish that we had had more tense moments like the ending. They left the door wide open for book #2 with this!
Some more thoughts:
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Woo! You zoomed to the end. Sniffers: Creepy right?!?! Like the thoughts Romy had about them. Enslaved and gelded. Eek
I thought the author did a grand job of making the opening a jam packed opener, lulled with angst for the middle and ended with a steep rise and landed a solid conclusion.
I'm in to read the next book. =D
That’s a pretty accurate way to describe this book lol. It started out strong, started to fiddle around the halfway point, and then the last 15-20% of the book was strong. I’ll join you for book 2! I want more world building, they also mentioned something about an underwater city. You can’t just throw casual mention of things like this and not go into detail about it. That’s torture to me lol since those are usually the details that capture my attention the most a lot of times.
Also I don’t know why I do this to myself but I immediately jumped to another book the second I finished illusion of thieves. This new book is terrifying but at the same time I can’t stop reading it. Like I don’t want to continue reading it because it’s legitimately kinda nerve wracking but at the same time I want to read what happens next.
Julian wrote: "Also I don’t know why I do this to myself but I immediately jumped to another book the second I finished illusion of thieves. This new book is terrifying but at the same time I can’t stop reading i..."Whatcha reading and why's it terrifying?
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Started Illusion of Thieves today.. going back to read some of the comments. Absolutely agree Neri is a little shit. lolRegarding the many kids thing I think thats a common thing in history having a lot of kids even though its expensive to have kids. Depending on what setting/how advanced science is, etc. the mortality rate for kids is super high so people would have a lot to ensure they'd have some survive to adulthood. Big generalization here, and I'm sure there are other nuances.
But holy shit selling your kid to a whorehouse has me raging at the mom. Loved how the description of her mom (at 40!) was an old crone. lol no love lost there.
Romy so far has a really good heart. Can't bargain with the poorer people bc she feels bad.
Also, yes to the Italian vibes.
It was like, 14 siblings and then add Neri + Romy. What the heck man? They lived in a shack/room deal. No hiding sex. Did the dad even have the energy to have sex? Was the mom a rag doll?!? Ok, enough on that tangent. I know about families being big, etc for that time period, but modern questioning can't be stalled. lol
I miss Leverage! Such a good show.
They had the good? bad? luck to have all their kids survive hahaOkay 14 is a bit excessive xD
Total of 16 when you add Romy & Neri. 16 kids. That's like a whole sports team.
Eoin Colfer is going on the Probably Never Going to Read Anything By This Author short list. I listened to most of Highfire and it just wasn't funny. Like, I could see the author trying to write smart and stupid humor blend into a 'quirky' story. It just sounded dumb to me.
You can't leave reviews or notes on GR without tagging the book as Want to Read or Read. I put it back as a Want to Read. That way my book update note will stay in place and I know that I didn't enjoy my attempts to read the book.
Also I really know what has you terrified Julian? xD
I know, right? Julian, you totally skipped my question! XD
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I listened to most of Highfire and it just wasn't funny. Like, I could see the author trying to write ..."
Go to your bookshelves... click the edit button at the top of the My Shelves list... create a new shelf called "Never Want To Read" or something... make it exclusive... now it's another top shelf option that is exclusive like "Want To Read", "Currently Reading" and "Read"... that's how I made a bunch of genre-specific TBR shelves years ago...
Yeah, I don't want to make a shelf for that. I don't generally have a hard rule about books. I like that I leave some room for change, etc. Like, I didn't think I'd re-read the Dark Tower series, and I'm glad I did it with audiobooks. I'm satisfied with that and won't touch it again. Though, I'm looking forward to reading all the other work by Stephen King.
I read Malazan to the end to see what the hype was about. There's a lot to like and a lot to dislike in that series. Also, it ended in a similar vein as King's Dark Tower. Which makes it another series I don't want to re-read, because the ending influences whether or not it's worth re-reading.
Cradle & Wandering Inn are not as well crafted work like Malazan or Dark Tower, but I'm charmed by the process of the series and look forward to where it goes. More than likely, I won't re-read them as much once I'm done. lol
At some point, we need to finish S - Ship of Theasus. LoL
@Soo The Hot Zone. Its about the ebola virus and does a great job of making me never want to fly in an airplane ever again. @Emily they don't really go into too many details but the main reason they're against magic is because they claim it came from Dragonis
Sniffers are creepy! Also, we get small answers in this book. Totally with you about wanting more on the magic front. Thus far, it seems like magic is the boogeyman that's hushed and controlled, but no one knows why.
Huh, Hot Zone has been read by 10 GR friends and have a rating between 4-5 by all of them. Alrighty! Does the library have it? *goes to look*Woo! My library has it.
Julian, do you want to count Hot Zone as BR? I can get it and read it now.
ETA: Eh, the audiobook is abridged. Bah! Still gonna give it a listen, but prefer unabridged.
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The entire dojo of swordsman entered the game in Vol3. I've been waiting for them to meet up with Weed/Hyun and see what'll happen.
In Vol5 now, the Master & his main assistant swordsman instructors finally meet up with Weed & some of his other friends. The plan was to go hunting for experience. It'll be the first time the Swordnoobs (hahah I think it's a silly translation spin but accurate) fight with Weed.
For a variety of reasons, Weed trained in several craft skills and all of them buff up his stats. He has a routine he does to hunt. Food, gear, magic buffs and ready to roll until all other players wish for death to get a break from Weed's crazy hunting. lol
Well --- no hunting happened cause the Swordnoob's were floored by the tasty food Weed made. The Master asked Weed for alcohol. Weed did have several that he's made but hoarding. He gives in and hands out the bottles. Drunk party! Negative affects, hallucinations and seeing stars in the sun shine skies. LOL
Weed ends up having to fight the mobs by himself. He's getting run down by the endless mob waves. He's like, I didn't want to do this but I have to give it my best!
Pulls out seasonings and starts throwing salt on open wounds, soy sauce on cuts, hot pepper into eyes, etc.
I have to say, this may be the first LitRPG that used seasonings in a mob battle.