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Good: Well-executed page-turner. Someone from our world is sent to a world with magic, and is able to parlay a good general understanding of our science and technology into innovative ways to do magic. Initially, he's just trying to keep some people alive as monsters swarm his new world and a new ice age rolls in. Eventually, he'll be trying to stave off Ragnarok.

Poor: The premise - an knowledge of modern tech turns into game-changing magic - has been done to death, and has been done better. This instance is a *too* munchkin: Whatever threatens the protagonist, the reader knows that the appropriate counter or defense will emerge from his back pocket.

I'm neutral on the sex. There's too much of it, with two many people, in too many combinations. On the other hand, that's not entirely a bad thing in a mind-candy read.

On balance, it's mind-candy - and I'm getting the sequel.


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Fimbulwinter Daniel Black Book 1 eBook E William Brown Reviews

Damn, damn, damn. Another excellent idea derailed by an idiot narrator and poor editing. (spoilers below)

This was, truly, an intriguing idea modern guy gets bounced to alternate world as a magic user --- in the beginning stages of Ragnorok. Cool, right? Next he hooks up with two (!) female sorceresses who he’s basically assigned to protect. Sweet! Next we’ve got fights against trolls, goblins, wolves, and giants --- this is looking good! Action, hot witches, magic, some not-so-subtle sex; just what you need for a little escapist adventure reading.

Then it all comes apart. Crap.

The protagonist becomes an idiot. Here’s an easy example he gets hired to magically build a wall around a city that’s liable to be attacked any day by frost giants. Okay. Cool. How about finish the f-ing wall before screwing around with gates, towers, guardhouses, and freaking crenellations? Seriously. This initially intelligent jackass screws around all day with gates on an INCOMPLETE wall (chapter 8). Are you stupid, or suicidal? Enclose the city, then make a gate. Why? Because monsters keep showing up before he finishes. Duh.

Next, here is every fight in the story encounter really bad monsters, get living bejeezus kicked out of you, survive by narrowest of margins. Repeat. Doesn’t this guy learn anything? Jumping face-first into a meat grinder is a crappy strategy, you’d think he’d either figure that out, or die.

I read all three books, and the last two were a complete waste. They should’ve been titled “how I’d magically build a fortress.” Seriously, what the hell? Pages and pages and PAGES about this wall and that roof. And the dimensions of the place. The setup for the kitchens for crying out loud. What happened? Is the author a frustrated architect or what? If you want to describe something in detail, describe the hot sorceresses --- but stop with all the Better Homes and Gardens crap. The problem with all this is you’ve got massive detail about his fortress, but much less about the actual plot. This is backwards; describe the plot in detail and the fortress in general terms.

This story could’ve been excellent. It should’ve been. But it wasn’t. Not even close. Seriously. Find an editor you trust and put them to work.
**Spoilers**

At first, the concept seemed cliche Human male gets screwed over by human female, runs into a series of bad luck situations, and enters a new world. Said human male then gets into protective stance with non-human females, who then want to procreate ad nauseum.

In fact, the sex scenes take a while to come in, which helps strengthen the story a great deal more. The characters are pretty well developed (in every sense of the word), and the worldbuilding is far above the price range of this book.

Downsides for a series set in Norse culture, there are a lot of vernacular terms. It's touched on once, but ignored overall. While the author has obviously studied Norse mythology, he's ignoring quite a few bits of pertinent lore, like how one of the greatest insults was to call someone homosexual.

For that I have to ding a star. But the rest of the material is frankly very well put together. Few to no spelling errors, grammar is great, and I don't feel like it was a rush job to get some editor's deadline hacked together. So, plus one star for that.

It's not often I find an entertaining series. Well done!
Do you love a game where you have to struggle every minute? Where you have to crawl through broken glass for a mile to achieve a marginal victory? Are you one of those players that scoffs at games where the player is given massive powers to destroy his enemies, and instead wants a burning challenge to ignite his ego and needs drudgery and sacrifice disguised as "Challenge" to keep himself interested?

Then you will hate this book.. because this story is for people who want our games to escape our regular existence and start off really powerful.

Daniel Black is a guy that has his real life turn horrible and in his moment of greatest dispare he is given the option to enter a new world with the powers of a mighty sorcerer. Even better he gets to choose his powers, and like many "character optimizer" (or "munchkins" as they are vulgarly called) Daniel and us KNOW how to make a powerful character.

So he ends up in this new world, brimming with power, and begins to win. Just win. Battles, Women, Property, Everything. Does he have it pretty easy? Yes he does, because he PLANNED IT. He did not enter this world saying "I think I want the powers of a janitor, maybe with a beer belly, but sort of strong."

So if you play Role-Playing games and you tend to be a "character optimizer" by taking the best mix of powers you can. Then I say, this is the book for you. Nothing serious, just fun.
Good Well-executed page-turner. Someone from our world is sent to a world with magic, and is able to parlay a good general understanding of our science and technology into innovative ways to do magic. Initially, he's just trying to keep some people alive as monsters swarm his new world and a new ice age rolls in. Eventually, he'll be trying to stave off Ragnarok.

Poor The premise - an knowledge of modern tech turns into game-changing magic - has been done to death, and has been done better. This instance is a *too* munchkin Whatever threatens the protagonist, the reader knows that the appropriate counter or defense will emerge from his back pocket.

I'm neutral on the sex. There's too much of it, with two many people, in too many combinations. On the other hand, that's not entirely a bad thing in a mind-candy read.

On balance, it's mind-candy - and I'm getting the sequel.