Saturday, April 20, 2013

The Emporor's Soul

By Brandon Sanderson

Good book, but you may want to read Elantris  in order to understand a grand total of one of the references. It is also quite short, and not overly cheerful for most of the book, but not as depressing as, say, the Mistborn trilogy by the same author, which I intend to review as soon as I can refresh my memory of them.
Swearing: Medium, D-words are used infrequently.
Violence: Medium, a character is severely wounded in a fight.
Religious/Other: Mention of magically animated skeletons, the main character is a forger and can use a system of "Soulstamps" to rewrite the history of an object or person, various fictional religions are mentioned.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Harry Potter And The Natural 20

By Sir Poley

I am back!
Anyway, I really liked this story, although it is not as ridiculously awesome as I'm here to help, nor is it as long as Harry Potter and The Methods Of Rationality, it is consistently hilarious, and fairly kid-friendly, to boot.
The Blurb: Milo, a genre-savvy D&D Wizard and Adventurer Extraordinaire is forced to attend Hogwarts, and soon finds himself plunged into a new adventure of magic, mad old Wizards, metagaming, misunderstandings, and munchkinry. Updates Thursdays.
Comments: Technically accurate, and strikes me as amusing, to boot.

Language: Medium, a grand total of one D-word by the end of chapter 8, and possibly a S-word or two. "crud" and "parc(backwards)" are used fairly often.

Violence: Medium, killing of semi-sentient beings is done occasionally by a main character, said character occasionally attempts to kill sophonts threatening him or his friends, several characters are mentioned as being killed in the backstory, several characters are injured.

Religious/Other: Most characters use various powers referred to as magic, mention of demons, mention of a villain attempting to achieve immortality, one of the main characters comes from an alternate world where death can be reversed, mention of semi-arbitrary "alignment" determining a character's choices, references to "clerics" being able to heal wounds and resurrect the dead(if of "good" alignment), references to necromancy.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

The Dark Lords Of Nerima

By claymade

Another Entry In "Erratically Updated Productions"

How Much I Liked It: Pretty good, not worth an outstanding ovation, but at least deserves several high caliber rounds of applause.

The Blurb:
"Ranma and Ryouga are no strangers to trouble. But when they accidentally convince both the Sailor Senshi and the Dark Kingdom that they're megalomaniacal villains bent on world domination, trouble starts to take on a whole new meaning."
 Comments: No obvious errors with grammar or punctuation, but misleading in that the referenced characters (Ranma and Ryouga) are not the ones responsible for misleading said Senshi.

Swearing/Language:
Occasional D-words and much rarer F-words, although none from the Senshi or Tuxedo Kamen.

Religious/Other:
An entire species of superpowered beings resembling demons of which the main character is a part, said species apparently lives off of human life energy, talk of reincarnation, talk of sorcery, brief mention of a "relationship" between two inhuman generals who both resemble human males, talk of some of the demonesque creatures being able to take control of human bodies.

Violence:
Battles involving sorcery and "martial arts" are fairly common, and described in detail, some of the inhuman characters "bleed" dust when injured and turn to dust when killed, some human characters suffer injuries.

Friday, February 8, 2013

I'm here to help

By Mark Doherty

I... Live! Seriously, however, I am alive and have finally updated.
This Sailor Moon fanfiction is now one of my favorite short stories, Fanfic or otherwise, and although it is rated M for some reason, it contains less objectionable content than Shinji and Warhammer 40k on the same site, which is oddly rated T.

The Blurb: It has now come to this. I have lived too long, failed too often, and lost all that matters. Grant me this one last gamble. Grant me an end to our eternal conflict. Grant me the death of she who enslaved our world with its Purification. Grant me Serenity.
Comments: It sounds awesome, at least to me, and the story does not disappoint.

Content Rating: High PG/low PG13 because themes of mind control, violence, and death/loss are prevalent, but nothing too dark.
  • Swearing/Language: Medium, D-words are dropped rarely.
  • Other: The main characters are fighting a kingdom of creatures that vaguely resemble demons, said demons are sentient and are frequently killed by the heroes, reference to a possible ...relationship between a demon general and one of his male underlings, the main character is a sympathetic character that still does morally reprehensible things such as killing said demon-creatures for their magical energy.
Overall: 5 stars, loved it.