familiarity with tabletop roleplaying games is not required to enjoy this book, but it may help with understanding the review fully.On the backdrop of a group of terrible gamers (as in "all but one are complete arseholes") who are trying out a new module with a more realistic approach to resource...
Two others had appeared from the either side of the alley, bringing the total to five. April thought one of them looked a touch familiar then realized he’d been near the stall where she bought the purse. That sort of explained it; she hadn’t been as covert as she should have been about all the ex...
Nicholas replied, accepting her hand. Again, his pulse increased slightly, but this time, the effect lingered longer than before. “Unfortunately, I’m certain you must be mistaken. There is no possible way I could have forgotten meeting such a beautiful woman.”The blonde’s placid expression held f...
By the time we got to Amy’s office, I’d mostly recovered from my scare, though I was still a bit shaken. Thankfully, the raging impulse to run and hide and pray to whatever god happened to care about accountants had mostly diminished. It was still a bit embarrassing that I cowered in the corner w...
Horbon, Nevada was a town roughly an hour’s drive north of Las Vegas. Its claim to fame was not any particular aspect the town itself possessed, but rather its quasi-adjacent location to other, more tourist-friendly towns. Horbon capitalized on that convenience in a rather ingenious method—they b...
Violet held up a truly awful one-piece that had body-masking ruffles perfectly illustrating her point.“I like to be comfortable when I swim,” Camille defended weakly.“And I’d like for the gentleman you’ve got your eye on to not be capable of taking his own peepers off you,” Violet shot back. “Com...
I introduced Lillian as my trainee to the clients, then got right to business. The curtness wasn’t malicious; I simply didn’t want her to have any chance to let them know about her affiliation with the House of Turva. Presumed alliances could be problematic down the line, and I liked to keep my b...
Now.” Titan tapped his left earpiece as he ran, wedging it back into place. Unlike his Hero one, this radio hadn’t been tweaked and updated by every tech-genius to have to worn one in the last several decades, and as such it didn’t quite sit nestled in his ear with the same ease.“Little busy.” Zo...
Coach George announced as he paced along the line of skittish students. “How about you, Persephone?”“Heart thoroughly warmed,” Coach Persephone answered.“Glad to hear it. I must say, I thought more of you would break by now. I was certain some would take this opportunity to drop out of the progra...