Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

This is a Buddy Read for A Decade of Death and Decisions by Drew Hayes starting on October 1, 2025.


Happy Reading!

Thank you!
This is a Spooktober thread. Read any time in October!

Check out the list of other scheduled spooky reads in the Spooktober [buddy read] thread, or seek friends for a plan of your own in the [planning] thread!

This is also a continuation of Drew Hayes series reads, starting with:

1. Fred the Vampire Accountant: (Jan-Aug)
2. Second Hand Curses (Sept 23) [link]

Spooky Oct: A Decade of Death and Decisions (any time in Oct)

Next? Here's a list of possibilities:
You can see Iain's summaries in comment 15 [here]
5-Minute Sherlock (3 books): The Case of the Damaged Detective
Roverpowered (4 novellas): Roverpowered: Tales of an Aspiring Alchemist
Super Powereds + Corpies (4 books + shorts): Super Powereds: Year 1
Spells, Swords, & Stealth (5 books): NPCs
Villain's Code (3 books + 2 anthologies): Forging Hephaestus

Standalones:
Pears and Perils

I am working on this one and am about to start year 3. Year one I found kind of annoying. Year 2 wasn't bad and I could have had more in depth of that series. I have started to keep track of how many decisions I would have made different than the popular vote just for fun.

Cool idea I'll start soon and comment at least once per year

I set up a scrap paper to record and found that:

Year 1: I would have made 7 of the same decisions and 5 different.

Year 2: 6 and 6

I am going to put a bit of a hold on this book and work on The Butcher's Masquerade. I do need to finish this book by the end of the week, however, so I will go back to it shortly.

Year 1: I think what I found annoying was (view spoiler)[ it really has a frat party vibe and I was just thinking that if the whole story is going to be like this then I don't know if I would want to continue. Luckily it doesn't appear that this is the case. (hide spoiler)]

The story probably evolves over time as Drew changes as a writer... this is pretty much a chronicle of his writing start to today, I think... his web serial started coming out in ebooks in 2013...