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Jeremy Cheng
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Jeremy Cheng

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Hammered, Tricked, Trapped and Hunted are the books that I will be bringing on the weekend. Interesting how in the Iron Druid universe the irish and norse gods are immortal but can be killed but the Olympians are immortal and turn to dust to return to Olympus whenever they are killed on the earth plane. This might be because the Olympian gods were heavily worshipped and had lots of mythology associated with them so they are true immortals. Hopefully Hunted has a Zeus cameo.

21-Aug-2018 00:19:43

Jeremy Cheng
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Just ordered Pinnacle City: A Superhero Noir by Matt Carter and Hounded: The Graphic Novel by Kevin Hearne. Hope Pinnacle City is in the same universe as Almost Infamous and apparently Hounded: The Graphic Novel is actually part 1 out of 6 of the Hounded book's graphic novel series. Was going to order Constance Verity but was at my $60 a month spending limit.

23-Aug-2018 05:17:16

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I enjoy YA a lot just because I enjoy fantasy, if there were more books like the action adventure that I read that are YA I'd definitely be interested to check them out but usually I finish a book of 300-500 pages in about a week depending on my work schedule and free time to read though. Looking for recommendations.

I have a decent collection of about 40 or 50 books not including the manga that adds another about 40. My favorite authors that I keep going back to include Libba Bray (Trilogy for A Great and Terrible Beauty just phenomenal if you liked Lord of the Rings, pales in comparison but still a great read(Going Bovine was great too if you liked Scott Pilgrim vs the World)), the author Scott Westerfield for practically all his books, as well as Suzanne Collins and Ann Aguirre for their post-apocalyptic books. Ellen Hopkins narrates some great real life story type books as well.
Currently I'm reading the second book of The Deviners trilogy by Libba Bray and almost ready to start the third book.

23-Aug-2018 13:13:12

Jeremy Cheng
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My receipt says that Pinnacle City arrives on Nov 13 but my email says it arrives on Sept 5th. Hounded receipt says it arrives in 3-9 business days which means Nov 13 is correct as it comes out on Nov 6th but takes 7 days to arrive at the bookstore. I've also decided to purchase Christopher Farnsworth's Killfile and Flashmob as those go under my $60 a month spending limit on books. Thought I heard a rumor that at the end of Flashmob Deep State, Nathaniel Cade book (novella) #3.5 is included. I really don't feel like buying a Kobo so yeah.

23-Aug-2018 13:36:52

Jeremy Cheng
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I am going to purchase the leatherbound signed limited edition of Monster Hunter Alpha. Since the author is part of the book pumping out machine that is Baen Books there is 100% chance all of the Monster Hunter Books are going to be in stock for the many months it will take for me to buy the entire series, all 10 of them. I'm on an urban fantasy binge.

23-Aug-2018 14:10:13 - Last edited on 23-Aug-2018 14:10:43 by Jeremy Cheng

Jeremy Cheng
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So idk if anyone here reads david golemon's event group books but major spoiler for empire of the dragon:

So the matchstick man comes back to life due to the life prolonging/injury healing dragon fire mineral infused with his body. Even though he died in 2016 and empire takes place in the summer of 2017. Don't think david is trying to rip off superman being resurrected by the mother box in justice league but its pretty similar. Three ways I speculate this ending could go:

1. More immortals route
The matchstick man is heading off into the arizona desert to meet with another immortal hiding there. This could be a way of introducing the demigod Hercules, in the event group books he has superpowers like the Airbenders in empire due from consuming and being near dragon's fire.

2. Dragon's fire asteroid connection to Legend
Perhaps there were "good" gray aliens that crashed where the amazon forest would be and adapted to the poisonous methane atmosphere of 700m BC earth by transforming into fishmen/alien mutant due to eating the dragon's fire mineral. Pretty sure the fishman in this book is the last gray alien mutant, 700m years old and wants to meet the matchstick man for whatever reason.

3. A gray saucer is buried in the desert
The matchstick man could be heading to the hidden gray saucer that crashed hundreds of millions of years ago in order to either resume the gray invasion in a shocking betrayal or allow humans to reverse engineer wormhole portal generation technology.


A year and a month was how long it took for david to write empire of the dragon, released june 12 so event group #14, hopefully one of my theories is correct or at least partially right. Will definitely buy as soon as its available, even expensive hardcovers. Aside from the mountain David does not disappoint.

24-Aug-2018 02:21:08

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