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One of Knightley’s better, if sillier, series.

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-29-25

From the first time I came across the series, I was utterly enamored of the displaced protagonists and their struggles to live a (relatively) peaceful life among us normals. They’re oddly relatable in an utterly alien kind of way. A solid piece of (slightly smutty) fantasy romance. The second and third titles are equally charming, with the couples’ struggles are almost as different to the first pair’s as they are similar.

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Might be my favorite B.S. book so far.

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-24-25

Sentar has a penchant for elaborate backstories, and this might be the most elaborate world building exercise I’ve seen from him.

He also has a pronounced tendency towards Mary Sue protagonists, but at least this one feels like he’s earned it.

Good stuff all around.

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Cebelius wrote a non-erotic fantasy novel

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 01-20-25

And it was pretty darned good. MC is a bit unlikable at the beginning, but he gets better.

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Cute

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-14-24

Feels like it could’ve been two or three books, so it does feel a little abridged, but entertaining enough. Spicy bits are well done.

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Solid story, if a little oversimplified

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5 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-05-24

Like many such novels, things work out slightly too conveniently to expedite the narrative breaks between steamy section. It’s pretty visible here, but not overly problematic.

I just can’t stop losing immersion with Wayne’s voice being that steady. I’m sure he’s great in other things, but it doesn’t work for me here. It’s slightly too monotonous for him to be the main male voice.

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Somehow magnificent in both its complexity and simplicity.

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-19-24

While admittedly niche, Durand in general and The Perfect Run in particular (second perhaps to Underland) should be required reading for nerds of the superheroing variety, perhaps sci-fi nerds in general.

It’s one of the better time loop novels where it isn’t excessively entangled in high concept sci-fi rigmarole, and Ryan is one of the better deranged fast talking supes.

The whole novel has a wonderfully… post-Amerika flavor to its pop culture. Globalism has its costs, but the culture it has produced is delightful in its fusion fare feel.

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One of my all time favorites

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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-12-24

I have a great respect for novelists who have written novels like Miéville has in this particular case.

It’s trite to say that Kraken’s ending would make very little sense (or sound patently absurd) to someone who hadn’t read the rest of the book. But it’s true and moreso than is the case for most novels.

The slow, sequential exposition is layered on, crisis by avoided crisis, as what was initially bewildering and fantastical becomes commonplace as the centerpiece arcana of each section gets more and more esoteric. It can feel a little overwhelming at times, but I enjoyed it. Plus when you look back at the layers you can see that they were both intentionally placed with care, and make a nice overall impression, like the layers of sedimentary stone in an exposed rock face sometimes do.

The Paul sequence feels a little rushed, but that doesn’t feel entirely inappropriate when you consider, retrospectively, that the clock was ticking, not particularly slowly, towards apocalypse.

Suffice it to say that I highly recommend this book to readers with terminal cases of bookishness or early onset erudition.

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Perfect blend of cop drama and erotic fiction.

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 11-04-24

The pacing is quite good in the sense that there’s always something going on.

On the other hand, you have a pretty good idea where things are headed early on, which I don’t generally prefer in storytelling, but... I got attached to the characters very quickly, so it didn’t matter. I just wanted to watch events play out and watch the protagonists circle each other closer and closer.

A marvelous piece of romantic fiction, if somewhat separated from the mainstream.

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Starts slow, picks up and doesn’t let up. Real page turner here

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-05-24

The expositional set up is necessarily a little involved. The setting’s a little out there, and the MC is off his gd gourd.

With that said, I quite enjoyed it. It’s got Dungeon Crawler Carl overtones, if Carl was a humorless head-case and DCC was a porno.

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Moooooore

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-10-24

Loved it. Just disappointed that there’s only one book in this series at the moment

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