A Newbie at GenCon 2017!
What do you get when you put together friends, Indianapolis, and a love for board games? You get a trip to GenCon 2017 - so I made my way to Indianapolis on the weekend…
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Category: Reviews
September Reviews: Japanese Light Novels and Magic Women
Girls Made of Snow and Glass (Melissa Bashardoust) - The writing is elegant, as are Bashardoust's interpretations of the elements we all know so well, mirrors and apples and snow. Mina, the "evil queen,"…
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The Red Threads of Fortune and The Black Tides of Heaven Reviews
The Red Threads of Fortune and The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang are a matched pair of stories, and I figured that whichever I read first would change the way I read…
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Review – Everfair by Nisi Shawl
Everfair by Nisi Shawl is an alternative history set in the Belgian Congo during King Leopold II's reign. Instead of years of slavery, racism, and genocide a congregation of Fabian Socialist from Great Britain…
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Early September Book Reviews
Spellbook of the Lost and Found - Moïra Fowley-Doyle's debut, The Accident Season, was a quiet roar of a book that used suspenseful magic to get at some extremely heavy issues, and her second…
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PAX West 2017 Review: Small Studio Video Game Roundup
The Penny Arcade Expo is, by design, a grind. Noise and sound and free things and kids and adults and cosplay and super-bad-for-you food. After two days, you feel it in your legs. After…
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PAX West 2017 Review: Battle Chef Brigade
One of the most unexpectedly enjoyable elements of Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the cooking system. Link, during his journeys through Hyrule, can collect all manner of ingredients that he can…
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PAX West 2017 Review: Donut County
Annapurna Interactive is responsible for publishing what may well be one of the most visually beautiful and emotionally stirring video games of the last decade in What Remains of Edith Finch. They’re also the…
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Godsgrave Review: Are You Not Entertained?
How do you top Nevernight, a book that's basically Harry Potter for assassins, complete with magical, stairway-shifting school accessible only by diving through something that really shouldn't be dived though? Well, actually the second installment…
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Mask of Shadows Review: Assassin’s Read
Assassins are popular these days. His Fair Assassin trilogy, which I thought was going to be stupid but which was a dazzlingly well-researched historical and religious drama, and Godsgrave, which was a crazy-cool assassin…
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