Jack Long (Author of The Dark Frontier Adventures)

Jack Long made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Page count: The Dark Frontier Adventures: DANGO topic " Hello Librarians! My book- The Dark Frontier Adventures: DANGO is listed on Goodreads as 250 pages. It prints from Amazon at 394 (the end of the story) ...more "
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Book Review (Malazan adjacent) Edge by M J G Pither TLDR: Read this book if you want to scratch your Malazan itch. As some of you know I am a real-live-author (or at least a reasonable facsimile) and can be very unforgiving when a novel does a bad job o ...more
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Jack Long rated a book it was amazing Lords of Dragon Keep (Dark Undermaster Saga #1) by C.T. Phipps (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Mr. Phipps is a consummate craftsman. It doesn't matter if he writes a book about zombies, super heroes, spies, or dragons you can be sure the book will keep you turning pages and missing bed time. Lords of Dragon Keep is no exception. If you are alr ...more
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My book- The Dark Frontier Adventures: DANGO is listed on Goodreads as 250 pages. It prints from Amazon at 394 (the end of the story) ...more "

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Edge
by M.J.G. Pither (Goodreads Author)

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Book Review (Malazan adjacent)
Edge by M J G Pither
TLDR: Read this book if you want to scratch your Malazan itch.
As some of you know I am a real-live-author (or at least a reasonable facsimile) and can be very unforgiving when a novel does a bad job o Book Review (Malazan adjacent)
Edge by M J G Pither
TLDR: Read this book if you want to scratch your Malazan itch.
As some of you know I am a real-live-author (or at least a reasonable facsimile) and can be very unforgiving when a novel does a bad job of... a bad job of being a good novel I guess? Cut me some slack we are talking about art here!
I DNF lots of books- especially indie stuff- and of the books that I finish I am FORCING myself through the last 20% at least half the time. I get in that mode where I feel like if I've come this far I might as well finish it- lets call it Chain of Dogs reading. This book, Edge, is NOT one of those. I couldn't get enough of this book it kept me up in bed and alert on flights. Top marks.
A lot of reviews do a sort of synopsis or talk about details from inside the book. I don't especially like those as I want the book to tell me about all of that. So if you want a few juicy details to get excited over you can send me a message or something. Here I am going to talk about the book from a meta perspective focusing on how it relates to Malazan.
I still don't quite have this clear in my own head. The book reads like a Bizzaro World offshoot of Malazan. The writing is less poetic which gives it all a slightly more animated flavor, but the characters and the nature of world and the conflict are very Malazan-esque without feeling derivative or like a copycat. Like, characters in Malazan are always stumbling upon ancient and forgotten ruins (potsherds anyone?) and the book Edge could be the answer to why/what those ruins are there. You get violence, gritty grim stuff, some existential torment, sex, violence, levels of badass-ness, sex, magic, alternate planes, pissed off gods, violence and sex, drugs, great characters and scene work, the flavor of a much larger world off-screen, lots of violence and sex, empowered female characters with agency that do not depend on male characters (if that is important for you) as well as sex and violence and probably some misogyny and helpless bitches (if that is important for you). There are also scenes depicting sex and violence (if that is important for you).
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Lords of Dragon Keep (Dark Undermaster Saga #1)
by C.T. Phipps (Goodreads Author)

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