I've taken a break from your books after for a while, but felt that with a new unexpected K.T. I'd have to take a look at what's going on with your series. I suspect I won't be making friends here any time soon again, but honesty is supposed to be a virtue, so ... Mojo: It isn't really the social is...

Perilous Waif was very good from all angles. (Characters, world building, technology, plot, etc.) Main character is strong, but not as overpowered as his other series. Depends on smarts as well as power. Well, I read it. It was fun, which is what matters. I agree on the coincidence thing. There's a...

Perilous Waif (Alice Long Book 1) by E. William Brown. The beginning of a sci-fi series by the author who brought us Daniel Black (which he needs to get back to). How was it? Amazon basically says 5/5 everyone but reviews that are so super-positive tend to make me suspicious / feel like "fan-o...

I'm currently reading Tengoku by Rae Magdon. Seems to be some sort of Japanese-fantasy thing. Apparently the protagonist is transgender? Well, something different for a change. It's not bad so far but too early to say for sure. Also, Shatter, aka Dark Reach II, by Lora Rasmussen. The first book was ...

Who knows? Might be a comment on being pushed into that situation instead of the protagonist creating the situation were death-by-hands was necessary; eg. actio vs reactio. But I agree, novels "by committee" usually don't work out too well. That being said, I read a lot lately were I despe...

So I read "The Girl Who Bore the Flame Ring". I don't have a clue what's with the flame ring (the sun?) but as expected, the writing was rather bad, but the plot was pretty good. Like the author's first web novel, the heroine is some random girl who just wants some small thing (the first o...

Ya, but from what I gathered I'm not sure the later "plot" is actually an improvement. ^^; Oh well, I might get around to reading 'The Girl Who Bore the Flame Ring'. Read 'The Girl Who Ate the Reaper' a few years back and that was actually surprisingly interesting. Same author, so might be...

I'm not sure it's the type of series/universe where the author has to particular care about brand name. It's going to sell anyway. ^^ Did you have a look at some of the ones I linked in my post on the 13th here in this thread? No. Good point; I was thinking about the ones Amazon constantly tries to ...

I'm still waiting for something in that genre that actually appeals to me. I like the idea, but none of the ones I saw seemed interesting enough. Well, alright, except for Alice Tale, but that one isn't exactly to be taken seriously, and the (fan) translation is mostly plain horrible, ha ha. https:/...

You always want a hint of disaster, thunder clouds looming on the horizon. But if there's no respite it can frazzle a reader's nerves. It's also a matter of giving the reader something to cling on to - Baru Cormorant for example promises bad stuff right from the start. Bad stuff then happens. Even ...