According to Tor's nephew, she's not so bad in her older form either. It's not fair, really. She's completely weaponized, and doesn't even have to enthrall everyone like her sister, the Ancient of Soam, did. I still don't get how the others got away from that one. Worse, they seem to have forgotten ...

Hahaha. I read that and thought, "Well, that's terrifying." Not sure why. Because it is terrifying. Think about it. She's like 3,000 years old. Burks didn't realize she was doing what she was doing (or at least not the extent of it), and she obviously has access to facilities the others d...

Being a fan of goofball cult classics, I enjoyed Killer Clowns From Outer Space. So working alien invasion into the story would be cool in my book. After all, they're painting their faces for a reason. It's clearly sinister...

It was worse than that, the nobles were beginning to view commoners as less than human... Yeah, that's pretty much what I said, but my point remains. People usually see their pets the same way, and still, they don't have to treat them with cruelty. Most pet owners love their pets. Even farmers (exc...

Well, as I remember, the nobles don't actually have to abuse the commoners, even though they are allowed to do so. They just can't see them as equals and find it hard to take orders from them. You may love and coddle your pets, but that doesn't mean you see them as equal to humans; you wouldn't take...

You might have a point there...

Mate selection in sexually dimorphic species (like humans) is all about double standards. Nature doesn't care, as long as it works. After all, male peacock tails make escaping predators harder for any individual, even if the fellas who make it are fitter as a class. What makes YA messed up is that i...

I've long since come to the conclusion that "vacation" means something different to Dale than most of us. So I don't really worry much about him burning out anymore, even though it could perhaps still happen. Even so, my reading avarice makes me feel like a pushy jerk about it.

I'm definitely not tired of the multiverse books. Out of the Woods was pretty engaging for me. However, I seem to have fallen down the rabbit hole with these novels, so I may not be representative of the average reader. From the reactions of some consumers in other media (namely anime), I can see an...

But if I have it right, the merchants are still quite a bit shorter still than the nobles. Tor's father, for example, isn't that tall, although he might have been picked for his unusual shortness. Sara Debris isn't that tall really, although she's taller than Tor. I think Trice is at least 4" t...