Cav's Place

While for a while I was saying that reading this makes me think less poorly about my own writing, it seemed to improve somewhat in the later parts, though editing issues have been obvious throughout. It’s a very light read, featuring action and scenes that don’t quite stand up to scrutiny, the likely consequences often […]

Having some curiosity about this ever since release, I jumped at the chance when I saw this edition given away for free and I’m not sorry I did. Of course, it’s a collection of very realistic short stories and my main focus are high fantasy series, followed a long distance behind by a few other […]

Let’s say that the author‘s heart was in the right place, and he did make some excellent points and put a few other interesting issues up for debate, but he mixed that with a bunch of truisms and plenty of other ideas that are just plain wrong, and then buried it all under an entire […]

I like books, but it’s really rare that I’m awed by one, yet this managed that. Authors that try to create original fantasy worlds, with new or at least highly uncommon creatures and systems, also tend to make me raise my eyebrows and think twice, because all too often people struggle to just make something […]

Is it full of clichés? Of course. Does it, like the entire series, bear a striking resemblance to The Lord of the Rings? Again, of course. But the lack of originality doesn’t necessarily make for a bad read, unless of course you are already tired of the genre’s trappings and will accept nothing less than […]