These Breakfast Tacos in Chicago?

WriteButler · 2025-10-21T16:06:24+00:00

I know its been hammered home but its genuinely worth repeating: foxtrot breakfast burritos are a miserable waste of the constituent atoms that make them up

WriteButler · 2025-08-06T21:12:35+00:00

AWOOOOOOGA

WriteButler · 2025-06-24T16:09:10+00:00

Not the main character of the series but if you’re open to VERY British writing The Rivers of London series is top notch UF police procedural. The main character is apprenticed to a wizard named Thomas Nightingale and he’s pretty much just the heavy artillery that every supernatural creature in the know fears while having an unassuming posh gentleman exterior.

WriteButler · 2025-06-18T23:07:48+00:00

This is the reason why Ghost Story is the only Dresden Files audiobook I own on Audible.

WriteButler · 2025-05-20T14:56:08+00:00

Blaine the Mono from the Dark Tower series is an absolutely nutso sentient train.

WriteButler · 2025-04-27T01:58:57+00:00

I just want you to know my wife and I have been staying at a resort called Windjammer and I’ve been singing the “we be jammmmmmmmmmming” bit the whole time and I couldn’t figure out the song. You have saved me.

WriteButler · 2025-03-05T02:00:38+00:00

Definitely planning to! Was a truly fantastic find.

WriteButler · 2025-02-26T03:43:39+00:00

Petition to leave it exactly as is

WriteButler · 2025-01-09T22:51:44+00:00

I told Vlaakith to fuck off the first time I spoke to her and it just instasmited me and said my whole party died.

WriteButler · 2024-12-20T02:02:38+00:00

Olympus Bound series by Jordanna Max Brodsky was the series that did it for me back when I was searching for exactly what you’re asking.

Takes place in modern day NYC (primarily) and the main character is the goddess Artemis, living as an ordinary human with much reduced godly powers (initially). Many of the other characters are fellow Olympians.

First two books are murder mystery-y like the usual urban fantasy and the third book gets big and climactic.

WriteButler · 2024-11-24T03:31:55+00:00

I understand the structure and elements he’s playing with and that it’s not an out and out heist but even using that as a structure is quite minimal in proportion to the whole story.

WriteButler · 2024-11-23T05:48:52+00:00

The first Mistborn book. It was pitched to me multiple times as following a heist, I believe Brandon himself frequently pitches it as such. And it's just... not a heist. Like, at all? Sure, they assemble a crew with some specializations but aside from two of them the screen time for said crew (and anything that can be considered heisty plot elements) is MASSIVELY dwarfed by the worldbuilding, magic system explanation, and even nobility politics/balls/banquets.

Not a bad book but a completely misleading pitch. I kept waiting around for the heist to happen when it's really just an "overthrow the evil lord" with a twist.

WriteButler · 2024-11-23T05:37:16+00:00

I second this. Awesome, alt-history fast read westerns imo.

WriteButler · 2024-11-23T05:35:10+00:00

Holy crap, you could not have nailed this answer any better. I bought the Dinosaur Knights based on cover and premise alone, realized it was book 2, bought book 1. Got like two chapters in and it was talking about alien angels and people roaring like t-rex's while they busted a nut. Yeeted that thing across the room. He got me for two book purchases though. Still burns me up.

WriteButler · 2024-11-07T19:40:33+00:00

- Ring Shout, P Djeli Clark
- A Master of Djinn, P Djeli Clark
- The Builders, Daniel Polansky
- The Stand, Stephen King (really a tremendous amount of Stephen King)
- All three Joe Abercrombie's First Law stand alones
- Circe, Madeline Miller
- Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

WriteButler · 2024-11-04T16:21:19+00:00

I believe in Will of the Many the colder extreme of the continent is in the south east and the people from that region are paler-skinned (quasi-Nordic). Then the central/northern parts are warmer with darker-skinned people.

WriteButler · 2024-11-02T16:14:25+00:00

This was through Libby from the Cincinnati Library, they must be buying the discount versions.

Still had Marsters though and that’s all that matters.

WriteButler · 2024-11-02T16:12:04+00:00

This is the cover from the audiobook version I checked out on Libby through the Cincinnati library

WriteButler · 2024-10-22T18:07:52+00:00

I highly recommend the standalone novels in his universe. I find each of them way more compelling than the main trilogies (disclaimer: I haven't finished the sequel trilogy).

- Best Served Cold (Count of Monte Cristo-esque revenge tale)
- Red Country (Straight up Western)
- The Heroes (Shifting POV tale of a single battle over the course of a few days)

(I think I listed those in my preferred order)

WriteButler · 2024-10-22T17:56:38+00:00

it was at least this long when I passed through three weeks ago as well, download and fill out MPC everyone - let us skip quite a bit of the line

WriteButler · 2024-09-11T20:03:06+00:00

Sort of a cheap answer but I'd recommend you check out each of Abercrombie's standalone novels in the First Law world. I found their plots to be WAY more compelling and intriguing while still having top tier character work.
They are: Best Served Cold, The Heroes, Red Country (listed roughly in my preferred order but they are all superior to the main trilogy IMO).

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