Cav's Place

I appreciate how the early part brings readers up to speed, and obviously also the mention of discussing rules for creating new vampires and stating that it’d be like forbidding humans from having children, which is just the point. And Lestat, the Brat Prince, can still be said to be himself, some others also have […]

This is one of the other three novellas included with The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep, besides the first three, which are novelizations of the original trilogy, and I didn’t see any official description and didn’t play the game, so I have no idea whether it’s directly connected with the game and someone who has […]

It starts well, pointing out the problems with the pursuit of happiness in itself and with this cult of positivity in particular, including the fact that it’s an industry but mainly that it doesn’t, and can’t, work, and in fact usually has the opposite effect. After all, happiness is the difference between reality and expectations, […]

The 19 years that passed since I read the first book were a serious reason for concern, so it was a relief that the fact that readers were likely to need a lot of reminders was fully taken into consideration. Not that it’s surprising, considering the 28 years that passed between the respective release dates, […]

It took me far too long to read this book, and while my eyes having a hard time with the font, even more so when large sections were mostly or even almost entirely in italics, had something to do with it, the main reason is the complexity coupled with the time that passed since I […]