#luke chmilenko

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Finding out you're a fan of something that only has 3 posts on Tumblr about it is just...

Ugh.

Time to start making posts I guess.

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Thinking about the interactions

The way Rei just wants Aria to smile and laugh and be happy more often an that he realizes watching her with Viv.

The way that Viv and Catcher fought for french fries was so fun, I adored it.

When Aria slid her arm into Viv's, and how relaxed and confident she seemed compared to previous hangouts.

How Catcher behaved in the hospital after Rei got beat up on by six people.

Aria and Catcher making sure that the situation after Rei woke up in the hospital gets handled with (relatively) level heads.

They all just are so wonderful when they interact I'm just so soft thinking about them being friends.

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Ascend Online V - JJcanvas

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Iron Prince: Pacing

As of chapter 15...

Iron Prince is a long audiobook. Like, over 30 hours kind of long. I try to keep this in mind when judging the pacing, but I do have my issues with it. (Also, there's colored text here and there because i got bored and liked it.)

First and foremost, I have to praise the narrator for this, if it was not for his method of reading, I would not have been able to make it through Iron Prince in an audiobook format. His methods of reading added so much character and interest to the book that would have been lost. So thank you, Luke Daniels.

Now, onto the pacing.

Iron Prince is a very description heavy novel, which in some ways I feel could have worked out, if it had been paced and proportioned better.

Overall, a lot of the descriptiveness focuses on background. Mostly in the setting sense. And in all honesty, if it weren't for the themes of this book, could have worked, as the setting is gorgeous. But, this is an action based book, with a fast moving plot. The setting descriptions were long, slow paced and intrusive to that pace; it just would feel out of place a lot of times. I feel it would have been better to fit those long, winding descriptions for lulls in the plot, or even if it was spaced out more between actions and dialogue, following as the narrating character took note of different things.

What about world building? Well, while i do enjoy a lot of the world building, as its rather complex and interconnected, i feel as if there could have been more natural ways to introduce it. Rather than the narrating character or whatever other method of delivery bein an info dump, perhaps through things like context clues, memories, or in story articles and history brush ups between characters. This was another case of out of place and too rambling.

In a praise to the authors, the fight scenes were fantastic. Well paced, easy to keep up with, without being uninteresting. Using the most recent fight as an example, Reidon and Aria's fight was phenomenal. Very well described, and paced, my only issue with the scene was how the narration switched between the two. I feel as if it would have been improved by keeping them going, rather than doubling back over what the other character already covered.

I do feel as though character descriptions were rather lacking, in favor to describe the environment and history in deep detail. There we of course moments when wed get a description of a character, seedtimes with heavier detail, but they were so infrequent and short that i had moments where i forgot several characters appearances.

Overall, despite the content being good in quality, i do feel the delivery and pacing of that content could have been improved.

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Today Christopher Keene reviews Bryce O’Connor and Luke Chmilenko's Iron Prince! 🐉

"The book’s formula is almost point-for-point a shonen battle manga, like a sci-fi Naruto or My Hero Academia (and who doesn’t love those?)."

Background image by Mikita Yo Mikheyeu.

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Standing far away from things I didn’t like and muttering at them aggressively was how I’d wasted my first life.

Luke Chmilenko, Savage Dominion

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Throughout the eons of human history, men have done a lot of really dumb things to get laid. When you put that into context, going for a ten-mile hike for a first date when you are as athletic as a cabbage probably doesn’t even make the top ten. It is one of the dumbest things I’d ever done personally, but on the grand scale of things, it doesn’t even register.

Luke Chmilenko, Savage Dominion

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Yawn. Generic humans were generic. Come on game designers, humans are so many weird and wonderful things, why did we always get such dull racial abilities. Come on! We could heal from almost anything. Why didn’t we get regeneration? We could make friends with wolves and wildcats. Why didn’t we get animal handling? Humans were the weirdest animal on Planet Earth, and somehow, when the time came to make games about us, everyone came up with “oh they can learn stuff.”

Luke Chmilenko, Savage Dominion