Web serial with plans for publishing. This is basically a first draft, which is just staggering for its quality being a first draft
This makes me hopeful I also won't remember much about it soon enough.
One of those guys who gave it 4/5 in Goodreads. Found it pretty decent, although not spectacular.
I just read a book by a female author that has worse writing of women.
It's a stereotypical fantasy. Routine story & bland, interchangeable characters. I struggle so much to find interesting fantasy. It's a genre that seems to be so devoid of humor, personality, and memorable voices. There are a few writers that try to add some identity to their writing and characters but they really seem to be the exception.
You haven't looked enough. Like in this very thread, like 10 posts above
Do you happen to have ebook versions? I saw that some guy created an epub but the links were expired and i absolutely hate reading from PC/phone.You haven't looked enough. Like in this very thread, like 10 posts above
Nope. Author plans to publish so no ebooks. Either wait or have to read online. Considering the series ends in two weeks, he's likely going to go through rewriting and editing aftetwords so it shouldn't be more than a couple years, hopefully
I helped myself and created an epub
If anyone else wants to read it that way, drop me a message.Yep. Avoid mass sharing of the material through a medium that would affect his plans for publishing...I helped myself and created an epub
As I understood, the author doesn't mind individual people making reading the book easier, he just doesn't want mass sharing of the material that way, so it should be fine.
Is this a medieval-era fantasy? I ask because I checked out the prologue and in the first paragraph, I see the simile "like a bottlecap" and bottlecaps didn't exist in the medieval era. I know it's fantasy but do they actually have bottles with caps in the book? Details like that bother me if writers use simile and metaphor that wouldn't exist in that time period.Only 4 chapters left to the end of A Practical Guide to Evil and H-O-L-Y S-H-I-T-B-A-L-L-S
This is the greatest fantasy work I have ever read. It's better than Malazan even. It's fecking better than Malazan
Y'all need to read it. Now!
It's simil-medieval yeah. Honestly no idea if they have caps, it's really not something that comes up
even though there's a lot of drinking going on Just finished the first after seeing this post, really decent.Starting the last book in the Licanius trilogy. First two books were quite good and I can safely recommend them.
Glad you liked them
What makes you say that?
Just 100ish pages in, mate. And, if I recall correctly, there were around 7200So only the epilogues are left. The finale was, frankly, perfection. Just wow. I'm still too elated right now but damn this is gonna hit me in a huge way next week
@Rake how far have you got?
Nothing groundbreaking so far, but still early days. I remember by page 100 of Gardens of the Moon i wanted to scratch my eyes out ( had to start over several time before I really got into it).Here's my review of that.Glad you liked them
What makes you say that?
On another note, did you start reading the epub? Was it created properly or are there any errors in there? I've managed only ~100 pages so far and haven't noticed anything.
Wordpress. Posted a link in spoiler tags, it's a few posts up. It ends next week, only the 2 epilogues left. There's a few extra chapter for patreons only too, backstory for side characters
Oh, I`m finishing all of it and we will discuss afterwards. The start hasn't put me off reading it by any means.
I have created an epub from the website and can share it with you, but it is only for easier reading and not distributing to other places. Although technically it is something anyone could do, we should respect the author's wishes. Send me a msg if you want the file. I`ll recompile it with the latest chapters.
Well, saying something popped like a bottlecap in a world that doesn't have bottlecaps doesn't make sense in story. It's also, to be frank, a sign of novice or poor writing.It's simil-medieval yeah. Honestly no idea if they have caps, it's really not something that comes up
For the most part the metaphors and similes make sense in story. The swearing too
Oh that's simple. You're reading the very first chapters. The writing isn't great in those. I'm conditioned because by around book 5 it becomes genuinely stunning at times - and then pretty much all the time by book 6 - but yeah, need to understand that:
that kind of thing is fairly standard in my opinion1-4 are all fair points and I'll keep that in mind. But 5 is not fairly standard in the books I read. In crime fiction, a lot of care is taken to depict violence realistically and take care not to do what the author here did in a fistfight ,even in some of the more "Hollywood" type stories like Bullet Train. I also like the challenge that any writer that thinks someone would be thinking like that right after getting punched in the eye should try it! Go to a dive bar and get punched in the eye and see how much interiority they have at that moment. Even if it's fantasy or superheroes, I think care should be taken to depict violence as realistically as possible.Oh that's simple. You're reading the very first chapters. The writing isn't great in those. I'm conditioned because by around book 5 it becomes genuinely stunning at times - and then pretty much all the time by book 6 - but yeah, need to understand that:
1) it's a first draft
2) those first chapters are very much the work of a somewhat rookie author
3) the writing improves by leaps and bounds eventually
4) it still remains a first draft
5) bolded really is nitpicking
I haven't, but most of my blog has. And they all have very good reviews on this. Was similar to John Gwynne books is what I hear!
7-10 are the worst in the saga. 9-10 in particular are pretty bad. I think that most people who don't finish the sage leave it in one of those books.
I read his Raven's Shadow trilogy. The first book there is excellent, the second one is ok, and the third one is probably the worst book in the genre. It is really that bad.
Just to clarify, do you really mean an ebook? I find it really hard to believe that those 7 volumes and how many millions of words can fit into a single ebook. If you did, I would like to know what program you used to compile it.
Yep, i have created one ebook containing all the books. It's currently around 7.3k pages and 7MB in size. I used a handy Firefox plugin called "WebToEpub". It works better than any other software/website I've previously used.
