Mar 6, 2025
People lie. People exaggerate. They view the world through tainted glass, yet see themselves in a gilded mirror.
David Dalglish
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People lie. People exaggerate. They view the world through tainted glass, yet see themselves in a gilded mirror.
David Dalglish
Book(s) spotlight: Keepers Trilogy by David Dalglish
I want to preface this by saying I may be a bit biased here. If you saw my post about planning this, I mentioned befriending an author on Twitter, getting to read some of his books before they were published, and getting to play test his choose your own adventure game for a series.
That's David. Keepers was the first series of his I read, and I fell in love. It's high fantasy with a wonderful Ensemble cast, LGBT rep, handling of trauma in ways that made me thank him.
Finishing book 2 was really the start of our friendship, because I reached out to ask him if I could homebrew one of his monstrous races for D&D. He said yes.
One of the things I really loved about Keepers was that the main character is A HERO in his own right, but he's still humble, down to earth, makes mistakes, and ultimately a vehicle for the true hero to come forth and do what needs to be done.
From beginning to end, I was enchanted, and I can't wait to see the final product of his choose your own adventure - because yes, it's for this series (and, he's implementing nonbinary options for the MC of the story).
Book Review - The Bladed Faith by David Dalglish
Remember how I’d be rushing to review an ARC the night before it got published, and in one case, the next day? Well, this book was published in April of last year so it’s fully available already if anyone wants to check it out. >_>
I requested the ARC myself because the book was tagged with f/f and while it does have some, I wouldn’t read it for that, just to get that out of the way. It involves a side character and a quite minor character, so not much of a storyline.
The book itself is a fairly formulaic epic fantasy about a small kingdom attacked by a larger empire and the people and gods who fight back, including the young orphaned prince. The concept of living, present gods is probably the one thing that stands out for me, it pays off in a surprising twist that took a long time to build, but I’m not sure it was worth the whole 85% of slow going before.
Both my questions of “why is this paced so oddly with so much detail?” and “why are we getting so many character POVs?” are answered by that twist but I dunno if I’d recommend it to people who aren’t huge fans of the genre. Or of really detailed action scenes, lol, there are many, elaborately described fights, and I’m sure there’s an audience for that, just not me.
If the city wants blood, it can have it, Thren thought. But it won't be mine.
The Regulator by The Dream Syndicate from the album The Universe Inside - Directed by David Dalglish
Haern. My beloved Assassin... this book needs a bigger fandom. It’s so underrated.
Review on reality’s A Bore!
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Today’s BPD character of the day is: Harruq Tun from The Half-Orc Series
(submitted by @youre-my-definition-of-fun!)