C. Petersen

Good set up, boring in the middle, fun ending!

Revisado: 02-20-25

A decent Bond novel, but not my favorite. It starts out strong, setting up the villains in an interesting way. It slogs a bit on the middle and Bond tours around with his weird friend, then it picks up and delivers a decent ending. It ends on a cliffhanger, which is, as always, both fun and annoying. Overall, worth a read.

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The Lord of the Rings if it was Mad Max

Revisado: 11-25-24

A great Conan story, well written and well told. Great action, fun monsters, weird magic, etc. As expected, Conan is the Lord of the Rings if Lord of the Rings was Mad Max. Oh, and it kind of reminds me of a movie I saw one time…

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All decent, one or two great

Revisado: 07-09-24

This collection is decent, if a little underwhelming. Not a whole lot of action in these stories, but they’re mostly interesting, with one or two that are pretty great and satisfying. If you like Hellboy and short stories, you’ll probably like this, but expect to be satisfied but not wowed.

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Surprisingly good folk horror slasher

Revisado: 06-20-24

I expected this to be gore core trash. Turns out, while there were a few scenes of pretty extreme gore, it’s a surprisingly good, well written folk horror slasher, with a touch of cosmic horror. If you like weird cannibal mutants empowered by freaky otherworldly entity, this one’s for you!

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Big, thick, crunchy, low-ish magic fantasy with too many characters.

Revisado: 05-14-24

If you like big, thick, crunchy, fantasy with decent world building, and an interesting magic system that doesn’t come up very often but is pretty cool when it does, you’ll like this book. If you like a relatively small cast with character names that are easy to remember and don’t sound like four other characters, you’re going to hate this book.

For me, I enjoyed it, more or less. It’s an interesting, well-developed setting, but it really got hard to follow with so many characters with difficult to follow names that sound exactly like several other characters throughout the book. The setting and style was reminiscent of Joe Abercrombie’s stuff, but with a very clear Norse vibe.

I’ll probably check out the rest of the books in the series, but this wasn’t my favorite. I’d say it’s worth a look, but I’m not as into it as a lot of other reviewers.

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Great insights

Revisado: 01-24-24

This book will probably make you uncomfortable, which is why you should read it. Unless you’re a wuss.

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Mostly Hits, a Few Misses.

Revisado: 11-08-23

If you like monsters from classic movies and books, including some really, legitimately interesting and fun reimaginings that stay true to the spirit of the originals, you’ll love 87% of this collection. There are a couple of stumbles, but who cares. Well worth a credit!

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Fun trash

Revisado: 10-24-23

Total fun trash. If you like 70s exploitation trash about evil cultist massacring all the virgins in town, you’ll like this!

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Great folk horror!

Revisado: 10-22-23

I was pleasantly surprised by this one. It’s a really excellent folk horror story, perfect for Halloween. I agree that they spend slightly too much time on character development, but it’s handled well and only goes on for a total of 45 minutes longer than I’d prefer. If you like creepy forest children, a spooky monster with claws and candlelight eyes, and other witchy folk horror weirdness, you will love this book!

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Excellent piece of folk horror paired with cosmic horro

Revisado: 09-30-23

If you like weird cults devoted to nameless gods, creepy folk horror monsters with black worms pouring from their bodies, and mind rending cosmic horror devouring reality around you, you will love this book.

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