A Place of Safety – Misplaced Characters

After the major divergence at the end of the party’s trip through Shadar Logoth, where Thom hasn’t even joined the Continue reading →

Shadow’s Waiting – Plot Jebaiting

Here we are in episode two, with our team out on their grand journey from Emond’s Field. And once again, Continue reading →

Leavetaking – Taking Liberties

Literally the moment it starts we have our first major story deviation that I really don’t understand the purpose of? Continue reading →

Less ‘Based on Wheel of Time’ more ‘Wheel of Time La Croix’

As I alluded to in my previous article about the conversion of The Eye of the World to Season 1 Continue reading →

I Converted a Novel into a TV Show and All I Got Was This Lousy Sheepherder

Having just finished the re-read of The Eye of the World (8 days, not a bad pace considering how much Continue reading →

It’s a Small World After All – World Design in The Wheel of Time

Welcome to the first article in my ongoing series critically analyzing The Wheel of Time. It made sense to start Continue reading →

The Wheel of Time: Critical Analysis Article Series

The Wheel of Time used to be important to me. I was introduced to the series in Grade 11 way Continue reading →

An Open Letter to Gary L.M. Martin, the very worst author.

Whoo boy, where to begin. First some backstory. In one of my discord communities, somebody linked us to the author Continue reading →

2018 Reading List [Incomplete]

2018 Reading List. This list is incomplete, and I don’t have the data saved elsewhere. This is all the books Continue reading →

On SFF, Gender, and Expanding Boundaries

Recently there was big news in SFF when author Victoria Schwab signed a million dollar deal with Tor books. This Continue reading →

2017 Reading List

2017 Reading List, a good chunk of this year’s reading came from a bundle of e-books that were all SFF Continue reading →

2016 Reading List

2016 Reading List, by this point I’d transitioned to Strange Currencies, and was still running the store full time. I Continue reading →

Novel and Interesting Magic Systems Part 2

Welcome back, readers, to the second instalment of my look at interesting and novel magic systems. The first article can Continue reading →

2015 Reading List

2015 Reading List and the list from my first full year of running my own business. As you can see, Continue reading →

Novel and Interesting Magic Systems Part 1

One of the most enduring tropes in fantasy as a genre is the presence of magic in the setting. Magic Continue reading →

Top Five Books Not Published in 2015

Well it’s that time of the year. The time of lists. And no review site would be complete with a Continue reading →

The Forgotten Realms

The Forgotten Realms is a fantasy setting which was created by Ed Greenwood in the 1960s, which came to commercial Continue reading →

Ranking, Rating and Reviewing

It is pretty much a given, in the internet age, that if there is a website where you can buy Continue reading →

Five Ways to Never End Your Story

Don’t you just hate it when a book or film has so much promise? Interesting characters, a rich setting, well-paced Continue reading →

‘A Memory of Light’ A Triumph of the Will?

So I came into the final chapters of A Memory Of Light with certain opinions, expectations, and ideas about how Continue reading →