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The Book That Wouldn't Burn - Mark Lawrence. I really liked this one; certainly enough to go on to the rest of the trilogy. Not a standalone book by any means. Livira was named after a tenacious weed, and it fits her. Born out in The Dust, the endless hardpan wasteland/desert that surrounds...

I briefly played with a group that read the 3.0 rule below and thought it meant having a high strength made you worse at shooting a bow. It took 15 minutes of carefully de-constructing the second sentence to make them understand that was not the case. Strength Bonus: When you hit with a melee...

It's going to take WOTC years to live down what they tried to do to the OGL and other things they've done just in the last couple of years, if they ever can - which I sincerely doubt. They are very close to that swaggering snarky attitude TSR had back in the day, supposedly safe and secure in...

Rising Tides (Capes, book 1) by Marion G. Harmon I really, really enjoyed this. This is the start of a new series in the Wearing the Cape superhero universe. I loved the first few books in the other series, and then kinda fell out of it. This got my interest back in spades. It's amazing. You...

Neon Nights: A Cyberpunk Detective Thriller by Anna Mocikat I can only marginally recommend this. I was surprised to find it's not her first book; the characters are side characters from one of her other series. I say that because there's a lot of stuff I see in first novels: too much...

There have been some MCU things I've liked (Wandavision and Hawkeye) but I can't help but feel that everything since Endgame has been a wheel-spinning waste of time and money, and that their efforts would have been better spent working on the X-Men.

Witch King by Martha Wells concerns the kidnap of the demon Kai and his best friend, and them being imprisoned under the sea (water interferes with a demon's powers). He gets free, frees his bestie, and they then try to discover who did this to them, and why. There is a LOT of world-building in...

It took a unique one-in-a-billion accident of science to produce Johnny Storm. Bobby just had to be born. People like Johnny Storm will not replace the human race. Mutants like Bobby will. That is the point people like Stryker and Trask are operating off of.

The Empire of The Wolf series - In the running for Best Modern Fantasy Series I've Read. Great things start from little things. When Justice Sir Konrad Vonvalt prevents a massacre in a tiny northern pagan village and earns the enmity of priest Bartholomew Claver, he has no idea that act will...

Two Tales of Vampires Adrift by K.R. Griffiths Whiteout by Gabriel Dylan Both were pretty darn good. Both deal with isolation - in Whiteout. 30 teens are stranded in a ski chalet by an unexpected storm. In Adrift, an EMP cripples a cruise ship. Then, the vampires show up. In both books, the...