Behind the Veil (TransDimensional Hunter #3): The Book the First Two Were Building Toward
A review of Behind the Veil by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer. Book three is where the alien plot finally pays off, and it’s the best entry yet.
A review of Behind the Veil by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer. Book three is where the alien plot finally pays off, and it’s the best entry yet.
Off Armageddon Reef opens with humanity losing an extermination war, then hides the survivors in a fake Dark Age. A book I’ve reread several times.
A review of Mark of the Fool Book 3 by J.M. Clarke, where the Games of Roal tournament arc delivers real stakes instead of the filler it could have been.
Betrayed By The Hero’s Party has a lovely cozy LitRPG concept and prose that reads like it came out of a machine. Both of those things are true at once.
Antdustrial Revolution swaps conquest for trade deals and world-building. A slower Chrysalis, and a bridge to whatever the fifth stratum turns into.
A review of Through the Storm by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer. Great Lynn material, but the middle book trades the alien plot for fame, bullying and doxing.
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.
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.
The Hot Gate (Troy Rising Book 3) by John Ringo delivers the best space battle of the trilogy and the one argument I no longer buy. Full review.
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.
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.
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.
Nolan’s Odyssey is sprawling and occasionally disjointed — Matt Damon is jacked, Hathaway is better than expected, and that ending is pure Tolkien.
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.
Knife of Dreams review: Perrin finally confronts Padan Fain, Mat marries Tuon, and the Wheel of Time reread gets its momentum back after a quiet stretch.
Crossroads of Twilight review: Mat and Tuon on the run, Elayne’s fight for Andor, and an honest look at the slowest book in the Wheel of Time reread.