Aug 12, 2018: Terrestrial Magic follows Jordan as she and her scientific team try to document legendary animals that have begun to reappear in the world, outside of heavily protected human settlements. The author does a good job of setting her world’s information up without a lot of exposition, and sinks the reader right into some interesting action at the beginning.

The setting she uses, wilderness outside of Rome that’s peppered with ruins, is interesting in and of itself, and then we get to [more . . .]

Jul 22, 2018: Beneath Her Makeup is a funny, slice-of-life look at a young woman, Desiree, who upon getting fired from a high-powered accounting job, takes the opportunity to follow her passion – beauty vlogging.

I thought the author’s use of first person was well chosen for the story, and it made the tales of Desiree’s scrambles to set up her channel on a shoestring, and the sometimes disastrous attempts at collaboration with others, to feel as if I was really there, an immediacy [more . . .]

Jul 17, 2018: Aparently im a glutton for punishment, as I read about 80 chapters of this. The premise is incredibley interesting. Super powerful alien decides to conquer world to save it from humans. Begins by growing up as a human himself, and learns to deal with human emotions. Also the entire world/universe domination thing. The mechanics and scope of the abilities, creatures, and technologies the writer comes up with are pretty cool too. Some are genuinely entertaining.

The issue comes forom the sheer [more . . .]

Jul 12, 2018: Full disclosure: this was done as part of a review swap, but I always endeavor to be honest.

Vorrgistadt Saga is dark fantasy with no cream or sugar, it is daring in its willingness to kill characters you sympathize with, and, both to its benefit and its detriment, it is a daunting read.

The Saga reminds me of a classic D&D adventure, especially the first episode, and as I am a huge [more . . .]

Jun 30, 2018: Ghostbow is a tale told in retrospect. Our narrator, Anaya, leads us through the story of how she won a place in a family-type group of fighters, and later loses them as the result of a war. We go back and forth between her memories of her time with her friends and the memories of what happened to her after she’d lost everyone, where her story takes a very different turn.

I wasn’t sure if the way the tale was told [more . . .]

Jun 11, 2018: So, this won’t be a long review, since I’m lazy. I found the title while randomly looking for interesting stuff to read. It’s a different take on the VR gaming Lit-RPG idea that’s gotten so cliche. The English is good, and I haven’t found a single spelling mistake so far. The story updates on a weekly basis, at 1.5k words on average. I’m writing this after I’ve read the first 21 chapters, and concluded that the story deserved a review. Light spoilers ahead:

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