Tl;dr: 1 star. This book is bad. It's an adolescent power fantasy where the author is obviously the main character, see "Marty Stu". He used to have the picture of the main character up as his profile picture, which is always a bad sign to me. It's one thing to be proud of your… Continue reading Review: Liam Arato’s “The Gold Farmer”
Tl;dr: 4 stars. Suffers from some pacing problems in the early portion of the novel, and there are some gaps in the logic/character development that hurt it at times. If you can get past a slow start, it's an intriguing World where virtual reality can mean that life might go on after death, but that… Continue reading Domino Finn: Reboot Review
Tl;dr: This gets a 4.5 star review. It's really good. It doesn't break any new ground and a lot of it is going to be old saw to LitRPG readers, but the devil is in the details and the details of this book are excellent. If you're a reader who wants to know what type… Continue reading Ascend online by Luke Chmilenko
I really wanted to review Luke Chmilenko's Ascend Online since I loved the book, but I read a Reddit thread on Harmon Cooper's new book and decided to review it instead, since the book is shorter and easier to give a quick review on. I've reviewed both of Harmon's other series: Feedback Loop One Feedback… Continue reading Short Review: The Last Warrior of Unigaea by Harmon Cooper
Tl;dr: If you plan on writing LitRPG, you should read Bevan's books. Robert Bevan is the author of a series of books called Caverns and Creatures. It is the most devastating critique of the fantasy genre, and LitRPG genre in particular, that I've ever read. Yet, no one has explored how and why it is… Continue reading The Subversive Genius of Robert Bevan
Tl;dr: 5 stars. Get it now. Longer Review. Spoilers, obviously Brief introduction: In the first book, the protagonist Jason is kicked out of school after being beat up by a school bully named Alex. He begins playing an online game that is run by an AI (Alfred) that is interested in human behavior and follows… Continue reading Awaken Online: Precipice. Short Reviews
Tl;dr, he didn't act like scammers I have met in the past. He was polite and seemed sincere. Most of the scammers I've met in the video game industry go into full-blown histrionics about how they're great artists when they're stealing assets or pumping out 32 games a year that are often re-skins of other… Continue reading A Conversation With Michael Chatfield
Today we will be meta-reviewing Cindy Koepp's review of Edward Brody's Eden Gate. There was some kerfuffle over her review, and I haven't reviewed anything in forever, so this is a good time. In review news, I'm going through the new Awaken Online: Precipice book by Travis Bagwell. It's amazing thus far, I have only heard… Continue reading Cindy Koepp reviews Edward Brody’s “Eden’s Gate” and cursing as an expletive and explanative power
Housing and work updates: Work is great, but looking for a house sucks. The average time from market to buy is around five days thanks to new development, so that means it will be two months or so before I'll be able to go back to the long-form reviews. If I was going to say… Continue reading More Short Reviews – Skeleton King and Luck Stat
Moving! So I'll be out of town for a few days and I don't know how long until I'm really up and running, so this is just a quick review. Quick Reviews: I read two books that almost have the same plot in some major ways, Level Zero: The Next World Series and The Feedback Loop. It should… Continue reading Moving to Nevada and Quick Review
GameLit reviews 