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Will Wight just posted the cover of Unsouled on Instagram/Facebook. In the past, he's done this one picture a day countdown until revealing the cover for the newest Cradle book. We're coming up on the end of his three month sabbatical, so it's possible. Also, probably doesn't matter for this thread, but first three Cradle books are currently free: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076G8DVN6?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_marketplace
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Cicero posted:Will Wight just posted the cover of Unsouled on Instagram/Facebook. In the past, he's done this one picture a day countdown until revealing the cover for the newest Cradle book. We're coming up on the end of his three month sabbatical, so it's possible. I'm calling April Fools! He timed his break to resume back on 1 April so I'm pretty dubious. Though if Bloodline should happen to drop soon I'll be dropping everything else I'm reading to devour it. Edit: and the Soulsmith cover just went up. Maybe it's just a Bloodline cover art announcement, or that he's going to take a break after Bloodline to write Traveler's Blade, or maybe that new thing he wants to do.
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# ? Mar 19, 2021 02:12 |
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Just finished reading all of Dungeon Crawler Carl, the sequel, and all the stuff on Royal Road based on people talking about it here. Very enjoyable read. I'll probably reread the third book when it gets officially released next month.
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Dr Subterfuge posted:Just finished reading all of Dungeon Crawler Carl, the sequel, and all the stuff on Royal Road based on people talking about it here. Very enjoyable read. I'll probably reread the third book when it gets officially released next month. Check out Matt Dinniman’s other stuff. LitRPG cosmic horror all the way down.
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# ? Mar 19, 2021 04:25 |
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I'll add a recommendation for Dungeon Crawler Carl. There are some places that could have used an editor's touch to tighten things up, but on the whole the sheer whatthefuckery (in a good way) of the ongoing plot thread with the aliens is enough to keep you engaged and rooting for the characters.
Roadie fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Mar 19, 2021 |
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n-thing Dungeon Crawler Carl. Currently reading Kaiju Battlefield Surgeon. I’m enjoying it, but Dinniman is a sick gently caress. About the closest thing I remember reading in terms of body horror was rear end Goblins of Auschwitz, except Dinniman manages to embed it in a litRPG story.
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# ? Mar 20, 2021 03:04 |
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Will Wight to fanbase: What, you thought my supposed 'sabbatical' was a real vacation, and not just another troll? You fools, you absolute morons. Bloodline (Cradle #9) releasing April 6th in all formats: https://www.facebook.com/willwightauthor/photos/a.292179890964495/1741703862678750
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# ? Mar 22, 2021 14:35 |
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Cicero posted:Will Wight to fanbase: What, you thought my supposed 'sabbatical' was a real vacation, and not just another troll? You fools, you absolute morons. Oh shiiiiiiit. I'm so stoked about this. Great news.
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# ? Mar 22, 2021 15:14 |
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Just wanted to chime in and say that I agree with the thread-OP that Drew Hayes is kind of great. I've heard a lot of audiobooks written by him and enjoyed every one of them. He writes good characters and enjoyable team dynamics. Over the last few months I've heard:
All of these were really fun and often quite clever or unexpected. The last Super Powereds book is incredibly long with a playtime of over 60 hours. But by the end, I didn't want it to be over. Those kids really grow on you. Also, huge compliments to the narrator (Kyle McCarley). There are about 30-40 different people in the regularly occurring cast and he managed to make each voice distinct enough to make it recognizable. And only one minor side character sounded actively grating. At the end of the month, Bones of the Past will appear as an audiobook and I am looking forward to it. (I prefer audio-books because I can go for a walk, or run while listening. I hate how paralyzed I get, when I am actually reading something and barely move all day long.)
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# ? Mar 22, 2021 17:13 |
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Yeah I got really bittersweet at the end of year 4 of Super Powereds.
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# ? Mar 22, 2021 18:28 |
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Cicero posted:Will Wight to fanbase: What, you thought my supposed 'sabbatical' was a real vacation, and not just another troll? You fools, you absolute morons. I always want more Cradle, but Will, for gently caress's sake, please take an actual holiday at some point e: And it's the actual day I come back from holiday, ack KOGAHAZAN!! fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Mar 22, 2021 |
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cant cook creole bream posted:Just wanted to chime in and say that I agree with the thread-OP that Drew Hayes is kind of great. I've heard a lot of audiobooks written by him and enjoyed every one of them. He writes good characters and enjoyable team dynamics. Bones of the Past was interesting to me because it felt much more Super Powereds-y than Forging Hephaestus (in that there was *a lot* of slice of life type stuff and the main plot was more something that comes and goes). Definitely made for a good pandemic read - there's a lot to sink your teeth into, but I could see folks who are approaching it expecting the relatively tight plotting of Hephaestus to suffer some whiplash.
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# ? Mar 22, 2021 21:30 |
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I hated the first few chapters of The Case of the Damaged Detective and thought Second Hand Curses was fine, I suppose, but it didn't do much for me. I really enjoyed Forging Hephaestus, NPCs and Super Powereds, though.
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# ? Mar 23, 2021 02:14 |
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Cicero posted:Will Wight to fanbase: What, you thought my supposed 'sabbatical' was a real vacation, and not just another troll? You fools, you absolute morons. I take it back, wtf he was supposed to be taking a break and looking after his mental health. (still gonna pre-order and binge it within 24 hrs of release)
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# ? Mar 23, 2021 03:04 |
He was finished with bloodline and took time off, apparently.
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# ? Mar 23, 2021 03:22 |
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Bloodline audiobook excerpt posted: https://hiddengnome.podbean.com/e/an-excerpt-from-bloodline-cradle-book-9/ According to Will's brother, it's from chapter 2.
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# ? Mar 23, 2021 20:40 |
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Bloodline’s pre-release is currently #1 on the entire Kindle store.
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# ? Mar 24, 2021 00:29 |
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Cicero posted:Bloodline audiobook excerpt posted: https://hiddengnome.podbean.com/e/an-excerpt-from-bloodline-cradle-book-9/ Wonder if that one poster will still insist Lindon is an Archlord despite Mercy saying Daji and Lindon are both still underlords.
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# ? Mar 25, 2021 01:42 |
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team overhead smash posted:Wonder if that one poster will still insist Lindon is an Archlord despite Mercy saying Daji and Lindon are both still underlords. Probably, it was a weird troll not an earnest belief.
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# ? Mar 25, 2021 03:58 |
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Just noticed that Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine is on unlimited. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004ZFZ4O8/
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# ? Mar 29, 2021 04:15 |
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Captain Monkey posted:Probably, it was a weird troll not an earnest belief. I still have my concerns about how everyone read the same book as me and came to the obvious conclusion that he's a quasi underlord sage, a position that doesn't exist rather than another position that doesn't exist. I've read and re-read the book a dozen times but I can't get my head around how you a have read it. Anyway, I enjoy the series, it's a fun read and I look forward to seeing where Will takes the characters next but I'm not going to listen to pre-release spoilers and ruin the book for me. I'm in Australia so I'll get it a bit earlier anyway. Aargh fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Mar 31, 2021 |
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Oh, it was by reading the text of the book where they explained that he was the thing everyone else told you he was. In the text. In plain English.
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 22:16 |
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Let us not have this debate again. In related news Cradle is doing that thing where some of the early works are free before the latest comes out. This time it is Path of Gold [Book 2 of the compilation]
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# ? Mar 31, 2021 23:23 |
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Compilation volume 2 aka books 4, 5 and 6 rolled in one. e: never too late to shake my fist at autocomplete Dr Subterfuge fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Apr 4, 2021 |
# ? Apr 1, 2021 00:25 |
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Will posted a Bloodline deleted scene that actually takes place right before the very end of Wintersteel: https://www.willwight.com/a-blog-of-dubious-intent/bloodline-deleted-scene
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 00:21 |
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Bloodline out in Australia, which means my Kindle account is an Aussie one for the next little while.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 18:51 |
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Cicero posted:Bloodline out in Australia, which means my Kindle account is an Aussie one for the next little while. I tried to do this and it kicked me out of my amazon household with my wife and sent an angry email about it, lol. I'll just wait a few hours, no big deal.
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# ? Apr 5, 2021 21:58 |
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team overhead smash posted:Wonder if that one poster will still insist Lindon is an Archlord despite Mercy saying Daji and Lindon are both still underlords. Just got Bloodline and it out and out says, within 10 pages, that he is an underlord sage. solved! shirunei fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Apr 6, 2021 |
# ? Apr 6, 2021 01:39 |
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Can't believe Will reads this thread.
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 01:45 |
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shirunei posted:Just got Bloodline and it out and out says within, 10 pages, that he is an underlord sage. solved! quote:
Lmao. Yep.
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 05:26 |
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Enjoyed it but not as much as Wintersteel. Will leave a proper review once I’m not phone posting.
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 09:19 |
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Well it was good to get confirmation that I was wrong early on. Was a bit meh overall, probably inline with blackflame as the least strong of the series.
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 11:15 |
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I really liked it, but then again I've liked every Cradle book. This one felt structurally very similar to Skysworn, in that it followed a Big Climax Book and was more transitioning/setting up the next big plot events, though I think it was still a good bit better than that one.
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 16:14 |
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Cicero posted:I really liked it, but then again I've liked every Cradle book. This one felt structurally very similar to Skysworn, in that it followed a Big Climax Book and was more transitioning/setting up the next big plot events, though I think it was still a good bit better than that one. I agree with all of this. Given that this one was about his long awaited return home, I can see there being people who expected more triumph out of the moment, but personally I liked the fact that his parents still didn’t respect him even when he came back with power and good intentions. Their immediate reactions of doubt felt more real than a sudden jump to trust would have. I was disappointed when the First Elder turned on him, though. That one cut deep.
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 16:34 |
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I enjoyed Bloodline, the choppiness and pacing of the book conveyed a proper sense of urgency... until the whole Sacred Valley part. I don't have an issue with it being a short book but I think that some of the betrayal loops in SV could be cut instead of glossing over advancement and other stuff. It really sucks the urgency out of it when you'd think after the fifth time or whatever Lindon would just be like 'holy poo poo these people are suicidally petty, lets just skip to the part where we unveil our power and swear an oath and then just make them do what we want instead of asking nicely'. . It did set up a lot of stuff and had a lot of random one-liners that made me chuckle sensibly TINY HERALD but not a lot of re-read value for me.
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# ? Apr 10, 2021 18:17 |
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I will say that the bit with Regan Shen was cool but it was so of a thread with the complete flood of similar self-destructive betrayals that I was just shouting OH COME ON by the time it happened.
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# ? Apr 11, 2021 02:09 |
The book was a nice coming of age step for the cast - Everyone had to set aside some of the naiveite of youth, not their hopes or ambitions, but instead their assumption that "well when I'm older/stronger/wiser/freer" things will change without me needing to change them. This is a bit of childish thinking that isn't handled well usually, and it's a nice bit of characterization to see it touched upon in several ways. Lindon realizing his parents will not just suddenly believe in him; Mercy realizing that Malice is often acting as she does because she wants to save people. Etc.
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# ? Apr 11, 2021 02:24 |
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Bloodlines : The way people in Sacred Valley responded to warnings of an impending apocalypse seemed very realistic to me. Realistically frustrating, but I appreciated the restraint in not having everything just work out like it would in a shameless power fantasy. I think the only time I really rolled my eyes was when Mercy spent all that time trying to be nice to that clan of flyers only to successfully browbeat them in minutes once they hit the deadline. That became more palatable when it ended up that browbeating the Wei clan wasn't successful after all. Maybe the sheer number of times the Wei clan betrayed Lindon was a bit over the top, too. But different groups having different reactions both to the evidence of the threat and the methods used to convince them worked well I thought. And I thought Lindon and co going back and actually being able to drive off the Titan was a nice palette cleanser, especially once Lindon finally found the Sword Sage's void space and talked to Elder Whisper. Reigan Shen being a sneaky little rat was just Reigan Shen things. It didn't feel like a betrayal to me since he has always been an antagonist, and I expected nothing better of him. I wonder which is on the chopping clock first: him or a Dreadgod. Probably him, since Monarchs are weaker? I'm excited for more Elder Whisper shenanigans. And maybe Ozriel shenanigans? The title of the next book is certainly evocative of Ozriel, but arguably that's also the path Lindon is on, and the Mad King also has an approximation of the Reaper's scythe now. On the other hand Ozriel is the founding Aurelius, so he's probably responsible for the newly introduced hunger hands, which were stored in that ancient Aurelius vault. But that's only an assumption. Dr Subterfuge fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Apr 11, 2021 |
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Dr Subterfuge posted:hunger hands. Please, it’s called a munchies paw
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Captain Monkey posted:Please, it’s called a munchies paw Holy poo poo.
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