Mastodawn

I finished 9 books in March 2026. Still enjoying and making progress on the #Spellmonger and #DungeonCrawlerCarl series. Both have a lot of books, and they're on the longer side. My roomie is also listening to the Spellmonger books and had spoiled a few minor things for me when they were ahead. I have now passed them by roughly two books, to my estimation. 🎉

My #nonfiction book this month was James Nestor's Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, which I listened to sped up. It was fascinating and kind of blew my mind a little bit. I highly recommend it, especially for anyone suffering from sleep apnea and/or crooked teeth. (CW: medical procedures, animal testing, and a passing mention of cannibalism.)

#reading #books #bookstodon #StoryGraph

Websterling Mar 9

Cool. Fucking. Scene.
#ReluctantAgreement
#SeaMage #Spellmonger

Websterling Mar 7

Prologue: Loving the conversation’s detailed analysis of why MC did the thing when he did it. Somehow “his little girl asked him to” didn’t come up…

#SeaMage #Spellmonger

Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷Mar 5

Plus: the new book #Seamage in the #Spellmonger series is out.

However, I'm only 20% in and already wish the series. would. finally. invest. in. professional. copyediting. for punctuation and grammar in particular.

And, heck, English isn't even my native tongue.

Though at this point in this timeline, I guess that suggests almost no AI use, so, ... a plus?

Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷Dec 28

Reading the latest installment in the Spellmonger series, I'm amazed at the combination of some of the most fascinating and epic world-building paired with the most glaring absence of proof-reading.

By Luin's knobbly staff, I'm sure it'd be within the budget. Or a few beta readers would do it for free, even.

#TheSpellmonger #Fantasy #Booktok #Spellmonger

Websterling Dec 2, 2024

Surprised and impressed. Started Court Wizard, and Mancour seems to be halfway decent with women when they’re main perspective characters. Will see how the rest goes, and then how the 14-yo girl romance thing plays in Shadowmage.
#Spellmonger

Websterling Nov 29, 2024

Carmella is a woman he develops well. Mancour definitely focuses on her autism as primary personality trait. But so far the women-perspectives have actually done a half-decent job with them. And she’s always rocked. Suddenly curious about Court Wizard. #Spellmonger

Websterling Nov 29, 2024

Ho. Lee. Cow. (SO MUCH in-joke there.) Carmella did not. Just... Did she? I think she did! I think she did!

Not put important things in a short story my ass. (TBF it was clearly sarcastic when he said it.)

#Spellmonger #RoadToVanador

Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷Apr 17, 2023

I've fallen down the #Spellmonger rabbithole (by #TerryMancour).
I'm currenly on book 11, so I think it's fair to say I don't hate them, but my do I wish that such a successful series would afford to pay for grammar and spelling review.
It is distracting.

Lore Birdsong 🦄Jan 17, 2023

I am a third of the way into Marshal Arcane, the 15th book of the Spellmonger series by Terry Mancour. I can honestly say that I've thoroughly enjoyed every book in this series and the narrator, John Lee is outstanding.
#fantasystory #fantasy #bookrecommendation #magic #spellmonger