A review of Into the Real by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer. The AR gaming premise is fine, but the hidden-identity story underneath is the real reason to read it.
Rewatching The Falcon and the Winter Soldier before Avengers Doomsday. I called it muddled in 2021 and it was, but nearly every loose thread became a film.
Rewatching X-Men: Days of Future Past before Avengers Doomsday. It repaired the timeline in 2014 and the franchise ignored the repair within three years.
Starting a nine-month MCU rewatch before Avengers Doomsday with the four early Fox X-Men films, and the two actors who have been arguing since 2000.
A review of Mark of the Fool Book 2 by J.M. Clarke. Alex finds new ways around the Mark’s limits, and Claygon and Baelin remain the best things in it.
Rewatching Logan before Avengers Doomsday. In 2017 I said time would tell after repeated viewings. It told, and both goodbyes in it have since been undone.
Rewatching Thor: Ragnarok before Avengers Doomsday. That triumphant ending lasts about six months, and the tone that saved Thor later went much too far.
Evaluation starts as a mercenary-flavored LitRPG twist, then turns into an overpowered John Wick clone. Here’s why this Brad Botz book earned a 3/5.
Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 5 opens the crawl to trophy hunters and pays off the Carl and Donut bond. Here’s why The Butcher’s Masquerade is a series high.
My Spider-Man Brand New Day review: the swinging that floored me, Bernthal’s Punisher, a monstrous Hulk, Jean Grey, and what Peter is now.
Rewatching Captain America: The Winter Soldier before Doomsday. Steve dumps every file in 2014 and the MCU has been living in the wreckage ever since.
Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 4 sends Carl after four castles and a caged god. Why The Gate of the Feral Gods is the baggiest, biggest-hearted entry yet.
Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow- picks up right after the Igris fight. Here’s how the Crunchyroll sequel builds on Season 1, arc by arc.
Dive into the action-packed world of Warrior: En Garde, the first book in Michael A. Stackpole’s beloved Warrior Trilogy. This BattleTech novel kicks off a thrilling saga of honor, betrayal, and giant robot battles in the midst of the Succession Wars.
A review of Lamplighter Academy (Above the Drowning Light #1) by Kal Griffith, a post-apocalyptic Isekai LitRPG that leans on world-building over stat-grinding.
The Dungeon Titan buries you in grief for 80% of the book, then delivers the best fight scenes in the series. Here’s whether the payoff is worth the slog.
The Dungeon Predator is the darkest entry in The Dungeon Slayer yet — a brutal, exposition-heavy book five that tests how much punishment a series can take.
A review of Trash Alchemist (Book 1) — a LitRPG isekai with a genuinely interesting modern-knowledge premise, undercut by sloppy plotting and a magic system that doesn’t add up.
A Memory of Light review: the Last Battle, Rand’s final confrontation with the Dark One, and closing out a fourteen-book Wheel of Time reread.
Towers of Midnight review: Mat and Thom’s mission into the Tower of Ghenjei to save Moiraine, Perrin’s wolf dream arc, and the White Tower’s reunification.
The Gathering Storm review: Brandon Sanderson takes over the Wheel of Time, Rand’s breaking point on Dragonmount, and Egwene’s quiet defiance inside the Tower.