I read all of Dungeon Crawler Carl #1 in one sitting the other night. When I was a kid I read all of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in one go, laying on a beanbag chair in my bedroom.

The Book That Wouldn’t Burn was nominated for best fantasy so I’m happy. I mostly read fantasy, sci-fi and historical fiction so I don’t really look outside of those categories.

I recently was sent a copy of The Dogs of War by Thomas Roke because he saw my review for Essex Dogs by Dan Jones on Goodreads and figured I might be his target audience (both books are historical fiction taking place during the 100 Years War in the 1300s). All he asked was that I leave an honest review. I ended up really enjoying the book and left a 4 star review. That’s about the extent of my indie reading but it was an enjoyable experience.

Thrawn: Alliances (2nd in Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy). The first and third books were excellent, but this one was just Anakin, Padme and Thrawn traipsing about on some backwater planet. It was boring, especially since everyone already knows how Anakin/Padme’s story ends. I sat there through the whole thing thinking “none of this matters.”

I just finished the fourth Stormlight book and his prose doesn’t really work for me either, but the story is so interesting that I keep going. It’s definitely not for everyone, for sure. I’ve definitely had to take breaks, especially when he has characters in a fantasy novel saying stuff like “awesome-ness!” But I love it all the same.