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Sequel to Worm, Ward features a change of protagonists and takes place after the events of the first work. Spoilers below. The unwritten rules that govern the fights and outright wars between ‘capes’ have been amended: everyone gets their second chance. It’s an uneasy thing to come to terms with when notorious supervillains and even monsters are playing . . .
Cassidy Evans lives in a world of superheroes and supervillains. Born to a rich, prestigious family who genuinely and openly love and care for her, she has never truly wanted for anything. It is, in so many ways, a fairy tale life. But Cassidy is about to learn that fairy tales come at a cost. Witnessing something horrific, something . . .
For centuries, the Lands of Night and Light have been locked in a struggle of light against darkness. This is about life in the Land of Night, a place where even Dark Lords have hobbies. . . .
From the author of the award winning novel “River” and internet cult hit “Catharsis” comes a serialized novel about the end of the world and the lives of those destined to stop it. Three girls are thrust together by their shared abilities and the roles they are to play in the nearing apocalypse. They are guided only by the mysterious . . .
Four unlikely friends are permanently linked together when they install a beta “ultimate collaboration” tool on their computers—that allows them to teleport to and from each other’s homes at ease. Of course, they get more than they bargained for when they discover they can’t turn their connections off . . . . . . .
The year is 2061. The Golden Age of empowered heroes ended in the cataclysmic fires of The Collapse. Costumed demigods brought the world to a dire precipice and individuals and institutions are still picking up the pieces, still walking the precarious tightrope of a world-shaking paradigm shift. The world is not as it once was. The relics of the . . .
In the pre-dawn hours on a Saturday morning, something malevolent has awoken, striking fear and terror into unsuspecting citizens all throughout North East Ohio. Former acquaintances, neighbors, loved ones—all at random—transform into flesh-craving monsters hell bent on devouring the living. Corpses are rising from their places of unrest. Nocturnal animal-man hybrids hunt in packs. The dead are awakening from within . . .
Odd & Ends is a series of tales set in the unusual city of Skymoore, floating above the world of Solkin. It follows the lives of Donovan Allman, Nestor Pinkly, and Karessa Plunderton as they struggle to keep their humble magic shop alive while battling the literal and figurative demons of their present and their past. . . .
In the future of decades past, a world of robots and CRTs, Atlanta is the most powerful city in the world. And in that city, one twentysomething slacker named Morgan Harding dreams of being able to live a normal, peaceful life, but . . . that’s not happening. Together with a mysterious sentient robot and an overworked college student, Morgan must keep Atlanta safe . . .
“In a city of dreamers, there are bound to be nightmares.” When a contract leads Jespar Dal’Varek, mercenary and professional cynic, to the island nation of Kilé, he sees it as a chance to turn the page. He quickly finds that the “Land of Opportunities” and it’s glittering metropolis walk on a tightrope. While the upper class lives . . .
Stars are all Kinri has. Exiled from the noble heights of the skylands, she scrapes by in the backwater cliffs of the land of glass and secrets. It’s a chance to make real friends and live a simple life away from her family—it’s all she wants. She’s different now, and she’ll prove it. But can she even convince herself? . . .
Rainer, an amateur arcanist and college student, sought to create a new spell far surpassing the magic he inherited from his grandfather. Yet the interference of an unknown event during the casting of his spell led him to be thrown through space and time. Rainer landed in a world where status screens were accepted as normal and class distinctions . . .
Jul 26, 2008: It’s hard to write a long descent review about a collection of vignettes (each different in their own way), so let me just say this:
Ljones writes short stories which may be true or false, but it doesn’t really matter. Every word, every action, encapsulates a certain emotion or feeling that is real and beautiful, no matter if it’s fiction or non-fiction or a little bit of both.
Jan 15, 2016: Summary for lazy people. Dark, violent, and compelling. If you like zombies read it. Russel is a great character, like an unrefined Dexter Morgan. Don’t read if you’re squeamish.
In depth:
Pros: Human characters. Flawed, real people. The characters seem to sort of fit one type of archetype, but in reality are huge inversions. This is like the Neon Genesis Evangelon of zombie stories. The greatest protagonist, Russel is awesome to [more . . .]