What good books have you read lately?

[Velfi]

If every sentence is spoken then a new paragraph for each character's speech would be standard formatting, but if it's not then yeah, that could be annoying. I've read some LitRPG and not noticed this issue but, in my case, I usually listen to them on Audible so wouldn't necessarily have noticed.

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[Velfi]

Last Cradle post before Reaper comes out, from Will Wight's latest blog entry. We were given 3 out of context lines from Reaper, but the one I'm most excited about is:


Reaper Line 2: “…she’ll be your opponent.”
Little Blue put hands on her hips and whistled a challenge.

Also, apparently you can get the book 15 or so hours earlier if you either add an Australian address to your account, or sign up for a new one on amazon.com.au. I haven't resorted to such measures previously, but I am dying of anticipation so I will definitely be Australian on Monday.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f8krdnMNg0

[Alashir]

Last Cradle post before Reaper comes out, from Will Wight's latest blog entry. We were given 3 out of context lines from Reaper, but the one I'm most excited about is:



Also, apparently you can get the book 15 or so hours earlier if you either add an Australian address to your account, or sign up for a new one on amazon.com.au. I haven't resorted to such measures previously, but I am dying of anticipation so I will definitely be Australian on Monday.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f8krdnMNg0

I can't wait for reaper. Love me some lil blue

[Velfi]

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[BriarFox]

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Meh. Reaper was thin and superficial. A light beach read with a couple of good twists at best. Wight can do so much better.

[Viekn]

Meh. Reaper was thin and superficial. A light beach read with a couple of good twists at best. Wight can do so much better.

He needs to slow down. The pace of Reaper was fairly balanced up until the point they enter the labyrinth. Once that happens, it's pretty much non-stop action until the end. There's no need for that. Instead of cranking out books one after the other, I'd like to see him take longer and write some longer books that balance out the pace of each book. I don't need them to be epic reads like GoT, but something a bit longer and more developed than what he does now would be nice.

[Stanley Burrell]

I'm probably going to reread "Anthem."

[LOL BRIELUS]

Dark matter by Blake crouch. Good easy fast paced read. Will read more of this author

[BJARN]

Dark matter by Blake crouch. Good easy fast paced read. Will read more of this author

Fix your laptop

[LOL BRIELUS]

Lol another week they said to replace battery and screen. Supply chain issues. So much free time in the evenings now

[SonoftheNorth]

Finished reaper last night, I liked it a lot, probably one of my favorites along with wintersteel and ghostwater

[Velfi]

Just finished my Reaper re-read yesterday and I have some thoughts on it and the series, but I'll try to stay spoiler free. I tried the Australian thing for the first time on this book and blew through the first read because I was so excited for it, but took my time on the re-read to soak it in some more because it was pretty hectic in terms of the pace. Sidenote, if you're gonna do the Australian early pre-order thing, I definitely recommend making a second account for it and don't risk getting your main Amazon account banned as happened to a number of people, according to r/Iteration110Cradle.

First of all I really, really liked Reaper. It had so many great scenes and moments, and to me it felt like the meatier 2nd half of another 2-parter (after Bloodline's part 1), similar to how Uncrowned and Wintersteel worked out. We really got a sense of how powerful the gang is and how important they are to the Monarch factions and the overall power balance which I found satisfying, as well as some better moments with Lindon's family after the bittersweet return in Bloodline. It was nice to get some slice of life stuff in the beginning before everything really started sprinting, since we don't get a lot of that normally.

Once the pace picked up, I thought the fights were very tense and exciting and the whole back half of the book just goes and goes, very hard to put it down. The ending was something that many fans had speculated on, and I'd read the theories before but I never took it seriously at all. Despite that, I thought it was well done and made sense, especially after reading a lot of posts on the subreddit pointing out little tidbits that have long been in place but now have a lot more or a different meaning in their new context.

Personally, I really enjoyed how Reaper solidified what the gang's end goal finally is. WW has always said he's going for about 12 books, but it wasn't clear exactly what we were going for besides ascending. The crew now has a very firm goal, fueled by the hungry one himself, and I can't wait for the rest of the series. I've got a guess that it might go to 13 (or even 14) books since 2 more books for the gang's plan seems like a stretch, but if they're a couple of thicc bois like Wintersteel, then maybe 12 could work, we'll see.


He needs to slow down. The pace of Reaper was fairly balanced up until the point they enter the labyrinth. Once that happens, it's pretty much non-stop action until the end. There's no need for that. Instead of cranking out books one after the other, I'd like to see him take longer and write some longer books that balance out the pace of each book. I don't need them to be epic reads like GoT, but something a bit longer and more developed than what he does now would be nice.

I wouldn't hold your breath for this. WW has said multiple times before that the tightly-edited, keep it moving and get the books out style is what he enjoys as an author and (I believe) also as a reader, and that he specifically prefers putting out shorter books on a faster timetable vs. a longer book every couple years or something like that. That's just how he do. I agree with you as a huge fan of the series, but I think it's better for WW to enjoy what he's doing instead of agonizing over it, personally.


Finished reaper last night, I liked it a lot, probably one of my favorites along with wintersteel and ghostwater

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[BriarFox]

The second book in Fulmen's Guardians of Aster Fall series comes out on Dec 10. You can join me in preordering now if you'd like: https://www.amazon.com/Aster-Fall-Guardian-Book-ebook/dp/B09HJF498B/

[tash]

Dark matter by Blake crouch. Good easy fast paced read. Will read more of this author

Blake Crouch's early books kind of suck. There's that trilogy like.. Wayward Pines or whatever that was pretty good. Dark Matter was really good. Recursion I think which is a little newer is also really good. But most of the earlier books of his (available for free on kindle unlimited!) are pretty lackluster. It's interesting to watch a writer grow, but damn, some of those early ones had I read them before Dark Matter.. probably would have not read Dark Matter and Recursion.

[tash]

Just finished John Scalzi's Agent to the Stars. He won't care what I say about this one as he's a helluva successful author at this point. Good for him. I liked the book, but much like other books he writes that aren't Old Man's War, they are fun but kind of childish. Clever but immature. It's a good read. It's just after awhile (this is actually the first novel he worked on), you start to see a pattern that doesn't really grow too much. But man his words flow. This aspect of his writing blows me away.

[Velfi]

If any Cradle fans are unaware, Will Wight has a Kickstarter going on currently for hardcover/special editions of the first 3 Cradle books that's wildly smashed the goals that were set, going through the 25th of this month, don't miss out!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/author-will-wight/fantasy-novels-cradle-1-3-by-will-wight

[Taernath]

This whole time I thought his name was Will Wright and not Will Wight and had PA's "Will Wright, please pee on us" comic (https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/05/27/e32k5-request-granted) stuck in my head.

[nocturnix]

Shoe Dog was really good if you're into entrepeneurial/businessey stuff.

[Velfi]

Me reading Dreadgod:

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[Velfi]

Still no date on Waybound (Cradle 12) but it's getting close! However, Will just announced the release date for The Last Horizon book 1, The Captain, his new series that will be coming out before Waybound, on April 4th. It's gonna be set in space with wizards and dragons and sounds interesting, I'm looking forward to a new series from Senor Wight.

https://i.imgur.com/twHiyZU.jpg

[Velfi]

Still no date on Waybound (Cradle 12) but it's getting close! However, Will just announced the release date for The Last Horizon book 1, The Captain, his new series that will be coming out before Waybound, on April 4th. It's gonna be set in space with wizards and dragons and sounds interesting, I'm looking forward to a new series from Senor Wight.

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JUST KIDDING I POSTED THE FIRST MESSAGE BEFORE I SAW THERE WAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT VIDEO TOO WITH A LITTLE GEM AT THE END

JUNE 6TH MOTHERFUCKERS

https://www.reddit.com/r/Iteration110Cradle/comments/11g4w5o/none_wills_new_book_announcement_video/