I started reading If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord 1 and I gave it up. Hoping for more lone wolf and cub thing, and it was way to slice of life. It’s about a guy who finds a half-starved demon girl in the woods near her father’s corpse. He takes her in and wants to help her out.

That’s fine.

But while he’s going out on his adventures, the story sticks with the girl as she helps out around the inn that he lives in…

Nearly halfway through, and there’s no conflict other than the mystery of what happened to her father and left her in the woods. That could work if there was any real tension or the story was focusing on unraveling the mystery, but I gave up when it started talking about her peeling potatoes.

So I started reading Her Majesty’s Swarm Vol 1, a Light Novel written by 616th Special Information Battalion. The Japanese are weird. And this is a play on the isekai trope. But instead of entering a fantasy world or MMORPG, our queen enters her favorite RTS (Real-Time Strategy) Game. It’s a mix of Warcraft 3 with the fantasy setting and the hero unit mechanic and Starcraft since she’s playing a zergling-like race.

No longer playing her favorite faction, she now commands them as their leader. But what she supposed to do now with her Swarm? I’m still reading this one, but I’m liking it so far. I’m curious to see where the author will take this premise.

I finished listening to The Licanius Trilogy on Audiobook! It was great to listen to this trilogy. It has a lot of visions of the future, time travel, and more, so listening to it in a row really helped to see how the story fits together better.

It is a great fantasy trilogy that gets into how can you have free will if God knows everything you’re going to do. Does that make you a slave? Just because you know how you’ll die does that make your choices meaningless? Things like that.

It’s a series that doesn’t hold your hand. You are as confused by events as the characters but you feel answers are there. And they make sense. It’s a puzzle that James Islington assembles for you over three books until it all fits together at the end.

Really satisfying ending.

Might listen to The Martian next while I figure out another long series to delve into. One of my favorite sci-fi stories. It makes a fun audiobook, too.

I don’t know if any of you have heard of iStripper, but I’m a fan. It’s a program that lets you get girls stripping and dancing around on your computer. Ellie Leen had a new card come out this week. God, she is cute AF. Definitely my favorite card released this week, and it was a good week with some great new shows coming out.

More fun problems from Amazon! The fun of publishing with them! For some reason, my original story The Incubus’s Passions Unleashed (The Incubus’s Naughty Harem 14) has material someone else published. They kicked my book back to draft (an unpublished state) and then I have to wait hours for the automatic email to get sent and tell me what the problem is. This isn’t a big one. They just want me to proactively claim it’s all mine by republishing it.

But it’s always stressful waiting to find out this stuff. Amazon just nukes people’s publishing accounts and keep all the money you’ve made that they haven’t paid you (up to two months worth of royalties).

Oh, and my car battery was dead. Winter and not driving it much have prevailed. It jump-started find, so here’s hoping I don’t need a new battery.

On weight loss front, I am getting away from snacking. So that’s good. And I lost nearly 5 pounds this week!

In my mainstream fantasy writing, I finished editing my second fantasy series. So that’s more than a little emotional.