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'Mercurial, Beautiful' is possibly the most original book I've ever read. Written in second person, it is reminiscent of the choose your own adventure horror books of my childhood that I loved - or of a DM telling you a story around an RPG table. I found it drew me into the story. I loved the eldritch horror of it and the way that horror slowly but steadily grows. Mostly, I think what I loved was that it was a surprisingly clever book - the kind that gets better with a second read. Those are my favourite kinds of books. I read an e-copy first, but then bought the paperback for the rereads. Definitely the kind of thing you go back to in order to get the most out of it.
The graceful airship CAS Ostwind sets out on a voyage of exploration and discovery. On board are a crew of expert sailors, enthusiastic scientists, zealous religious scholars, enigmatic dog-sled handlers, and you.Three days in, the first body is found.Trapped on an airship over Antarctic waters, days from land, with a possible killer on the loose. The bodies are piling up - what do you do?. Mercurial, Beautiful is a non-binary fantasy horror novella. It contains no gendered pronouns, gendered characters or, where possible, words with a gendered root.
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
'The Demon of Elderstay' is a classic D&D adventure in book form, without technically being LitRPG fiction. That is the kind of thing I enjoy and I liked the way this one adapted that. The main character is a very tragic figure that my heart absolutely bled for, although I will admit he's a complete disaster (so's the entire adventuring party - as they should be in a D&D-esque story). I was hoping for it to be funnier than I found it. The story is a dark fantasy, which I'm always down for - loved the horror elements of it. However, I definitely felt too sorry for Gerome the Gnome and his awful predicament to ever laugh at him, even though sometimes it felt like I was supposed to.
Magical makeovers are a messy business.. But how was junior arcane lecturer Gerome to know his attempt to improve a part of his anatomy would open a portal to the Shade Planes? Or, worse, unleash the all-powerful “Harbinger of the New Dark” – fondly or not nicknamed Al?. Utterly broke and burdened with demon (literally), Gerome begrudgingly joins a shady nobleman’s quest to free the stronghold of Elderstay from a powerful curse. His dysfunctional crew – the insufferable siblings Bijan and Najib, the perpetually moody Polly, and the enigmatic green-skinned Sha-sha – have more problems than they can wave a…
