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Week 1 Into Stormlight: The Way of Kings Failed Me, Will Words of Radiance Impress?
I know, it’s crazy that I split up series and haven’t continued much farther into them. I read TWoK a year ago, and Mistborn just this last year, both of which I rated in the 3 star range. However, I decided to go into Words of Radiance. My goal was to see if it was…
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1 Cohesive Book Club Rule You Should Consider Before Joining
The Book Club Suggestion However, you start your book club and someone says “This month’s book is going to be It by Stephen King”. Uh oh. You have one month to read a 1000 page book or listen to a 45 hour audiobook. You are a full time employee, maybe you’re even in school, and…
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Legends and Lattes – Fantasy Meets Cozy 3 Times Over
Book 1 is rated 4.05 on Goodreads almost 317k ratings and 57k reviews Book 0 is rated 4.12 on Goodreads with almost 106k ratings and 18k reviews, 336 pages Book 2 has barely been released since this post, and is on my read list. Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree, TOR Publishing, though originally self-published…
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The Bloodsworn Saga
The Bloodsworn Saga by John Gwynne Genre: Adult Epic Fantasy Rated 4.38 Series Average on Goodreads My Ratings: Book 1: Full review with spoilers Book 2: Full review with spoilers Book 3: Full review with spoilers Spoiler Free-Plotline of the Bloodsworn Saga Starting off on Shadow of the Gods, the story line begins with 3…
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AI vs 3 Narrators: Not so Authentic Voices
What Do Narrators Say? At DragonSteel Nexus 2025, I sat down at a panel for audiobook narrators after initially talking to Jeff Hays, Audiobook storyteller for Dungeon Crawler Carl. In the panel, there was Kaleo Griffith and Jennifer Jill Araya, storytellers for Isle of the Emberdark and Jeff Hays for Dungeon Crawler Carl. In this…
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Required Reading: Is It Still Beneficial Today?
That’s subjective to each reader. I would have originally stated: No, because it’s not fit for all kinds of readers. Now, reflecting on this when I originally wrote it in 2022, I would say no way of required reading will fit every kind of reader or non reader to be “effective”. I am a reader…
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The Intimidating Factor of a THICCC with 3 C’s Book: A Simple Fix?
What makes a large book feel intimidating? Weight There are a few factors to this, however, I think the biggest factor to this is the weight of a book. You will be holding this book in your hand for hours to read. It can get very hard to get comfortable while reading a bigger book.…
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The Butterfly Garden (1/4): Where Beauty Comes At The Price of Age
$10 Amazon, KU supported Book 1 of The Collector series Genre: Adult Thriller, 288 pages Rated 4.09 on Goodreads My Rating: Full review with spoilers The Butterfly Garden’s Spoiler-Free Plotline Main character: Maya is being questioned by 2 FBI agents after the “Garden” has been discovered, where Maya tells the story of how she was…