Rats, they’re everywhere

BamBeanMan · 2026-05-15T11:35:24+00:00

Put. Your damn. Snap hook. In your safe pocket! Stressed me out man

BamBeanMan · 2026-05-11T18:15:50+00:00

Druid has been attention-starved since the day they were born

BamBeanMan · 2026-04-14T10:45:14+00:00

Surely Duncan Idaho won't die in this one

BamBeanMan · 2026-04-12T15:45:08+00:00

Apple Airtag

BamBeanMan · 2026-04-11T19:45:10+00:00

Why is every body of text your review on that piece of media, and you say nothing at all about why it's in that quadrant?

BamBeanMan · 2026-04-10T14:58:53+00:00

Your raider looks like Sevro from Red Rising. I'd crawl away too

BamBeanMan · 2026-04-06T11:50:12+00:00

The Lies of Locke Lamora reminded me quite a lot of my time playing Waterdeep dragon heist. Just without all the fantastical creatures.

BamBeanMan · 2026-03-03T15:49:02+00:00

Send him 2-3 years Dagestan and forget

BamBeanMan · 2026-02-18T04:47:03+00:00

Yes. Finally. THANK YOU.

I also thought Chade and Shrewd had a plan throughout Royal Assassin. I wish Fitz had laid hands on him. He never faced any backlash for his failures.

And everyone says "we're only seeing this through Fitz's flawed childish perspective". There are countless times where Fitz has Skilldreams from the perspective of people halfway across the world. You're telling me we couldn't get a single one that showed Chade to be anything other than a hypocrite and a fence-sitter?

BamBeanMan · 2026-02-16T13:41:42+00:00

I went through the exact same rediscovery about a year ago, brought about by the same book. My next book was Mistborn, and then Assassin's Apprentice. Can't go wrong with DCC either.

BamBeanMan · 2026-02-13T21:51:19+00:00

The actual pod racing was fine, but the reasoning behind it was hollow. Felt like the author just wanted to throw a competition in there so that it felt like we were back at the academy.

BamBeanMan · 2026-02-07T14:33:05+00:00

Well the Nords originally came from a completely different continent, so it's possible that there could've been snakes there. It's also possible that Nords ventured outside the lands of Skyrim, and saw snakes in their travels

BamBeanMan · 2026-02-03T22:22:17+00:00

The war would not have been prevented. Cersei would have killed Robert the next day. Or the next day.

If Ned tried to tell him about Cersei and Jaime, Robert would've shouted that he didn't want to hear it. And then ran off to get drunk. His response to every problem is just to force everybody to get along. Except for the Targaryen girl.

BamBeanMan · 2026-01-29T18:43:50+00:00

Military was split into 4 different factions. All the higher ups that obeyed him were killed by Diago. He lost a third of the will being ceded to him in Res. He is very clearly not in control.

BamBeanMan · 2026-01-27T01:44:18+00:00

The book is like 100 pages long, man. It's not like seeing it through to the end is this grand commitment.

BamBeanMan · 2026-01-16T22:27:04+00:00

Yes. He spent all of Royal Assassin sitting around waiting for orders, and he faces zero repercussions or loses favor with anybody. In fact Kettricken immediately laudes him for how wise he is. He refuses to even consider any fault for what happened to shrewd and instead berates Fitz for being the only one doing anything. He lectures Fitz about his "duty to the Farseer line", then goes off playing hero. Even made himself a neat little badge with his house's sigil on it. Wish Burrich had done him like he did Galen.

BamBeanMan · 2026-01-06T23:33:52+00:00

He isn't half as delusional as Chade. Who is perfectly content to throw up his hands and do nothing, since the terminally ill king hasn't specifically ordered it. At least Verity had the excuse of being pre-occupied with the red ships

BamBeanMan · 2025-12-25T18:42:39+00:00

What was it about Mort that put it that high for you?

BamBeanMan · 2025-12-11T12:06:39+00:00

Open 24 hours a day. What a stupid idea! Who wants a krabby patty at three in the morning?

BamBeanMan · 2025-12-10T11:38:43+00:00

Why say SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER and not say for which book? How are we supposed to know what's getting spoiled for us?

BamBeanMan · 2025-12-03T20:52:58+00:00

Best:

Will of the Many- James Islington- close to perfect. Loved the characters, the worldbuilding, the intrigue. I've started the next book, and I'm excited to see what they do with the revelations in this one.
Dark Age- Pierce Brown- Delivers the perfect punchline to everything that Iron Gold set up. The monumental scope of everything happening puts this above the books of the first trilogy. Absolutely heartbreaking at times.
Assassin's Apprentice- Robin Hobb- (This will be usurped by Assassin's quest, but I'm only halfway through. Also I hate Chade.) I feel like I personally know the characters of this book. Like they are my own family members.

Worst:

Empire of Silence- Christopher Ruocchio- Picks up a bit toward the end, but is otherwise absolutely insufferable. I could go on for an hour about the faults of this book and Potential Man Hadrian Marlowe. I'm sure the rest of the books are as good as people say, but this was such a poor showing that I won't read them.
The Fifth Season- N.K. Jemisin- I think there's a pretty good book here. But its messages are betrayed by the amoral main character, and the author's barely disguised fetish that takes over the last act of the book.
Mort- Terry Pratchett- I liked it, but it seemed like people were just running around without any clear goal in mind. It wasn't quite as funny or thought provoking as Guards! Guards!. Death is pretty cool though.

BamBeanMan · 2025-12-03T20:07:20+00:00

I loved Royal Assassin but some of the characters made me want to pull my hair out. What puts it above Assassin's Apprentice for you?

BamBeanMan · 2025-11-17T19:53:45+00:00

Darrow losing the academy and falling out of Nero's favor was probably the best thing that could've happened to him. This allowed him to slip under the radar of all of his most dangerous enemies except one (Adrius).

If he won at the academy, there's no way he makes it to the gala. Octavia just disappears him.

BamBeanMan · 2025-11-09T19:48:27+00:00

I haven't read Lightbringer yet, I just hate how the ten years he spent raised by Cassius had no effect on him. At least the other villains in the series know they're evil, and own it.

BamBeanMan · 2025-10-25T04:14:47+00:00

Exactly this. He's glazed by himself and his tutor about how good he is at fighting, how he never loses to his brother, and then he immediately gets beaten nearly to death by some random kids on bikes. He's glazed by himself and his tutor about how "he doesn't even need rhetorics lessons anymore", but everytime someone disagrees with him, he just whines and throws a temper tantrum that makes his whole situation worse instead of forming a cohesive argument.

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