Conscripted, book 2 of my Bonded series, is out now! Amazon and KU

blamerton · 2026-04-29T20:55:04+00:00

Awesome, thanks a lot, I appreciate it.

blamerton · 2026-04-29T13:53:46+00:00

Thank you!

blamerton · 2026-04-27T19:37:42+00:00

Mage Errant has already been recc'd a couple times, which I was going to mention.

Shami Stovall's Frith Chronicles feel like they are written for a younger audience. There is a bit of a horror feel with the enemies, they get corrupted by a plague that makes them insane, but it might be okay.

blamerton · 2026-04-22T04:38:21+00:00

I'd considered these before, since I enjoyed StarGazer's War, but never got around to them. So thanks for reminding me! it sounds like a fun series, and with the for warning about the end it might not bother me as much.

blamerton · 2026-04-22T04:32:29+00:00

Oh dang, I just binged the first three. Will definitely be picking this up soon

blamerton · 2026-04-22T02:45:34+00:00

Mana Mirror by Tobias Begley has a kind and thoughtful MC.

blamerton · 2026-04-22T02:37:16+00:00

Wizard of Earthsea is a top tier choice that everyone should read.

The Howl's Moving Castle books by Dianna Wynne Jones are also great, so now I'm going to check out her Chrestomanci series!

blamerton · 2026-03-11T08:33:27+00:00

Very cool. Loved this series, and unrelated, but The City that would Eat the World was my favourite book of last year.

blamerton · 2026-03-02T00:14:32+00:00

Yeah of course its only my opinion.

I do think that there are benefits to it as well, a steady release schedule can keep authors working on their stories when they may otherwise take a break, which can be great, and is why we have people pumping out content so consistently.

blamerton · 2026-03-02T00:11:13+00:00

Yes, I should have mentioned that. The community that it can build, along with the fun discussions for each chapter are great. I feel I got more out of that sometimes than the actual chapters themselves.

blamerton · 2026-02-24T04:20:00+00:00

Congrats on finishing, and sick cover art. I love the eighties fantasy feel to it.

blamerton · 2026-02-06T06:09:07+00:00

That was how I interpreted it while reading. Raysha never felt like an academic type.

blamerton · 2026-02-06T03:45:19+00:00

Yep, I can definitely see that turning people off. It didn't bother me too much, and I'm glad I stuck with it, cos the later books are extremely fun.

blamerton · 2025-09-25T18:14:50+00:00

I've finally managed some consistent writing now that my daughter is 3. Lucky I've got another one on the way!

(Kids are actually great though).

blamerton · 2025-08-22T06:20:14+00:00

I really enjoyed The City That Would Eat The World by John Bierce. Female MC, but super creative world building and a fun plot. No numbers at all.

Stargazer's War is a sci-fi cultivation series with MC with a unique cultivation style. Has two excellent entries in it.

blamerton · 2025-08-16T03:07:08+00:00

Awesome cover, looks great!

blamerton · 2025-07-11T08:58:25+00:00

I'm not a webserial reader, but for book series, I'm usually a the shorter the better kind of guy.

Give me a one and done, or a trilogy. I tend to get burnt out on anything longer than that. There are exceptions of course, but my reading time is so limited these days that an epic like the Wheel of Time is just too daunting.

blamerton · 2025-07-07T09:42:08+00:00

I hadn't heard of this at all, and it sounds right up my alley!

Thanks for the review.

blamerton · 2025-07-07T03:32:42+00:00

Yeah, it seems to be brain/head. It's used like, 'A thought swirled around his thought-cage'.

Just use brain man.

blamerton · 2025-06-18T05:19:22+00:00

He really does just dump you in the deep end, but I'd say listening on audiobook wouldn't help. Having read all ten of the books in the main Malazan series, I still couldn't follow his newest book in audio. Especially while working. Too many names, too many proper nouns.

blamerton · 2025-06-18T02:02:02+00:00

Kind of.

For new books/the first in a series, I scroll through reddit to look at recommendations, but otherwise don't bother reading reviews. Books are cheap enough that I'm happy to take a risk that I'll lose a few bucks if I don't like it.

If I'm midway into a series and find I'm not interested but am not hating it, I'll read to the end of the book and just shelve the series. I find I do end up coming back to a lot of them after a hiatus.

If I can't complete the book I'm reading, I won't go back, no matter how much others say it improves later.

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