January Reading

I've actually finished some books!

* Ages ago, I picked up the audiobook of Necromancer's Dance because it seemed very relevant to my interests. The narration was terrible, so I returned it. I am back on Audible for a few months and accidentally bought the book again. I just assumed that books I'd gotten refunded for in the past wouldn't show in my reccs? Anyway, I decided to power through because I didn't want to return it again. That was dumb, I should have returned it and gotten a text copy.

I am going to talk about the first two books in The Beacon Hill Sorcerer series, which Necromancer's Dance starts, and the narration separately. But, since I bought more of the books and obviously hate the audiobook narration you can probably guess my feelings on both.

Books
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Audiobook
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* I DNF'd The Dark Lakes trilogy by M V Stott. The reason why I got audible again was because getting 4 months of audible was cheaper than just picking this up. It's an urban fantasy trilogy read by Dave Jones, the voice of Halsin from BG3. So, I was interested. The voice work is great, but I could not get through the story. ( Read more... )

Photowalking

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* Dark Horse is putting out a graphic novel based on the music of The Midnight. That could be really interesting. It's basically taking some of their aesthetic songs and making them into a story. Trailer for the comic.

I will check it out, but... will knowing what Jason is chasing... isn't not knowing the point?

* Speaking of my synthwave, I've gotten very into Dreamkid. I couldn't get into his voice at first, but now I'm into it. He also does these aesthetic shorts like:

- It's 1989 and there have been way too many UFO sighting and the news tells you to keep calm

- It's 1986 and you are watching the opening credits to your favorite live action TV show

- It's 1984 and you are being chased by a werewolf

I really like the music, but it's also just so accurate, so on point. I haven't listened to them all, but there are some great ones.