![]() the proceedings become oddly plausible.”- Publishers Weekly Ringo fleshes out his theme with convincing details. But there’s one catch: he has to stay alive to do it!Ībout Black Tide Rising series entry Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo: With half a dozen or more loup garou appearing every full moon, mysterious shadow demons, houdoun necromancers, fifty-foot bipedal crocodiles showing up every couple of months and more vampires than a Goth concert, New Orleans in the '80s gives a whole new perspective to the term “Hell on Earth.” In fact, more monsters are popping up than crawfish at a fais do do! Chad may be able to collect enormous bounties for the monsters he kills. With New Orleans out of control, Chad Oliver Gardenier, one of Monster Hunter International’s premier hunters, has been dispatched from Seattle to reinforce the beleaguered members of MHI'S Hoodoo Squad in their fight against the darkness.Ĭhad had once taken a werewolf while wearing only jogging gear. Not much happens, the plot sort of meanders talking about some random farmer’s cows, the origin of the not-goblins, and discussing the consistency of dog crap, and I find myself wondering “who cares?” It has made me cautious on new fantasy novels, and so I tend to look at the buzz from others if I’m trying a new author.THE MONSTER HUNTER MEMOIRS SERIES CONTINUES. TWO AUTHORS, WHO COMBINED HAVE OVER FOUR MILLION BOOKS IN PRINT AND 10 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS, TEAM UP TO EXPAND LARRY CORREIA'S MONSTER HUNTER UNIVERSE! I always told myself I’d go back if he could actually get an actual plot moving and wrap it up, but by the time Sanderson finished it I just didn’t care about the series anymore.Īnd I think that has infected Epic Fantasy a lot. The plot only advanced in the last chapter, and I just didn’t care anymore, particularly because the cliff hanger was based upon a character I could barely stand doing something utterly foolish. My last book I read the ENTIRE book was all the other people around the word responding to final event of the last book. Not because it was massive tomes that spanned 40 million novels, but because after book 5 or so less and less actually happened in each book. Yeah, I actually stopped WoT most of the way through and ignored the subsequent published books. I think a lot of it is things happen to the characters and the characters may not talk about it, but they do not forget and it drives their choices and their actions well after the original event. (Both of his hands were broken.)Įach scene stands on its own, but together they form this incredible character arc. ![]() They both end up in the water, laughing at it, and he realizes the other time someone went overboard, he couldn’t have saved them even if he had caught them, and comes to terms with it.īy itself, it’s a beautiful scene, with just enough information to know where he is coming from, but there is also the story where the original incident actually happened, and he watched someone he loved fall to the death because in his mind, he could not catch them. Miles flips over into full ‘never again’ mode, and tries to catch her before she goes over. Miles is dating a lady, and they’re goofing around, and she end up tripping off the foot bridge into the koi pond. My favorite example is the scene with the koi pond. ![]() You don’t need to read all of them to enjoy any of them, but there are more there, and they do add to eachother. You can pretty much pick up any of them and have a good novel. I’ve really loved how Bujold handled it in the Vorkosigan novels. I’ve really come to prefer more self-contained books in a series, where even if there are multi-book arcs, they’re maybe three to five reasonable length novels. ![]() I think it is more a problem that so many fantasy series have turned into the mega-epics that require reading all 452 books to reach the end of.Įven if they are fantastic and the author has great work ethic, things happen and they don’t get done, or worse, write them selves into corners where they can’t come to a satisfactory conclusion at all (see Game of Thrones and Mass Effect). Only picked it up earlier this year after finding out that it had been finished by another author, and that the author had done a very good job of it, via the whole discussion of the Brian Sanderson kickstarter. I actually remember hearing about it, finding out the author had passed before finishing it, and didn’t even start on the first book. The author was releasing them at a good clip, but the story was so huge that he didn’t make it to the end. ![]() I so find myself thinking of series like The Wheel of Time books. ![]()
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