Cav's Place

Now that I decided to finish this series of novellas included with The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep, I looked it up and found that this second half of it presents the backstories of some of the characters that can be recruited, so they should make more sense for those who played the game, and […]

Full disclosure: I received this book through a giveaway on The StoryGraph. This has in no way influenced the opinions expressed in this review. To be blunt, that notice shouldn’t even be needed when I have to say that what I appreciated in Blood and Flame mainly has to do with what isn’t there rather […]

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, […]