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TequilaMockingbird LinkI am just finishing Tress of the Emerald Sea, which was the first book from the Brandon Sanderson Kickstarter. I love Brandon Sanderson. He is my favorite author. I started reading the Mistborn...I am just finishing Tress of the Emerald Sea, which was the first book from the Brandon Sanderson Kickstarter. I love Brandon Sanderson. He is my favorite author. I started reading the Mistborn trilogy and then fell in love with the Stormlight Archives series. He put out 4 new books during the COVID-19 pandemic, and I heard that he was doing a Kickstarter to publish them last year. The first book arrived a couple of months ago, but I had to finish the other book that I was reading before picking up Tress.
First off, the book looks amazing as far as aesthetics. The artwork is perfect and the cover feels like a collector piece, as just looking at it is reminiscent of a piece of artwork. The book itself has a slightly different feel to it given the narration (no spoilers). I enjoyed it, but it was more obviously a theater of the mind and less refined than those larger series. Once again, this could have been due to the narration style/narrator, or because it was finished primarily in isolation over a short period during the pandemic.
Overall I enjoyed the book and am looking forward to getting the second installment of the 4 books any day now. For those of you unfamiliar with the Kickstarter, he is sending out 4 books over this year and is shipping them at the end of each quarter. I believe that they are separate themes and not related to each other. I look forward to posting about the next one when I finish it!
I have a group of friends that I met playing Overwatch a long time ago, but we stopped playing that a couple of years ago. Since then, we haven't played together much, which was slightly dishearten. A couple of months ago, a couple of them had mentioned picking up League of Legends.
LoL is a game that I have been off and on for over 10 years. Them starting it up made me want to pick it back up, and we have been having a lot of fun. It is definitely different from what I remember. The jungle is very different, champions and items are different, as well as the overall meta. But if you have played a MOBA before, it is somewhat self explanatory until you get into the fine details.
It is a very detailed game in the end. It is easy to play, but difficult to play well. The community is somewhat toxic, but better than I remember. I still mainly enjoy it with friends and don't solo queue at all.