A Parade of Horribles has a clever Emberus solution, but the race floor bored me and turned crawlers against each other. My Dungeon Crawler Carl 8 review.
A Call to Arms review: the book that made humanity the galaxy’s scariest recruits, and one I’ve reread more than once.
Steel Storm picks up the Steel Legion tank war with clunkier prose than Steel Breach, but the Emflife mystery kept me reading. My thoughts, spoiler-light.
My Wind and Truth review: the Recreance answers were welcome, but Szeth pushes Kaladin aside, Dalinar’s ending was sad and it dragged. A 2 to 3 out of 5.
This Inevitable Ruin is one of my favourite Dungeon Crawler Carl books: the crawlers hit back, old Cookbook authors return, and Faction Wars delivers.
My Rhythm of War review: some good elements, but the pace, characters and story struggled for me, and Urithiru fell far too fast. 3.5 out of 5.
A review of The Path of Ascension 7 by C. Mantis, and why the endless dungeon delve through Minkalla left this reader wondering what the series is actually building toward.
My Oathbringer review: Dalinar impresses, the Everstorm twist surprised me, but Kaladin disappoints and the book flagged for me in the middle.
A review of The Dungeon Phoenix, Book 4 of Konrad Ryan’s Dungeon Slayer series, and why the grind is starting to wear on this reader more than the series wants it to.
My The Way of Kings review: my first Sanderson, the best book in the Stormlight Archive, and a 5 out of 5 I’ve stuck to on every reread.
Betrayed By The Hero’s Party Book 2 takes the cozy LitRPG idea I liked in book one and stretches it until there’s nothing left. I nearly didn’t finish.
A review of Ascension, Book 5 of RinoZ’s Book of the Dead series. Tyron’s power spikes, the Realm of the Dead pays off, and the ending is a genuine gut-punch.
I Summoned Their Replacements takes the same betrayed-by-the-party hook and does something different with it. Rough edges, great dungeons, and I loved it.
Rereading Tom Kratman’s A Desert Called Peace in 2026, when the world doesn’t feel nearly as black and white as it did back in 2014.
A review of Mark of the Fool Book 4 by J.M. Clarke, where Alex Roth hits the actual limits of his power and has to find his own way around them.
By Schism Rent Asunder trades naval battles for politics and theology. Still good, still growing its cast, but this is where the brakes go on.
By Heresies Distressed is where Charis starts hanging churchmen and the naval war turns into a ground war. The momentum is well and truly back.
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride gives Carl closure on his father and makes Samantha great, but the card battles didn’t work for me. My DCC book 6 review.
A review of Beyond the Rift by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer. The series finale sticks the landing, mostly, then runs out of pages to close it properly.
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.