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About jmsudar

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JM Sudar dreams of someday walking into a bookstore and seeing a book of his own for sale. After hearing his wife lament that she forgot to write her Cannonball review _again_, he decided to pick up a controller and give it a try himself.

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Earthside

Earthside by Dennis E Taylor

March 3, 2023 by jmsudar Leave a Comment

Every general bit of praise and criticism I have for Earthside can be cribbed/shared directly with my criticism/praise for Outland, so I’ll avoid rehashing all this here and get to what’s both different and worse, much much worse, about Earthside: Dennis E Taylor turning his Pollyanna rose-tinted glasses to a post-apocalyptic justice and political system. There are witch trials, and it’s terrifying. The stakes of these witch trials are life and brutal, unyielding death. If you’re lucky you’ll be exiled to an almost uninhabitable Earth, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Dennis E. Taylor

jmsudar's CBR15 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Dennis E. Taylor ·
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The Bone Maker

The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst

March 3, 2023 by jmsudar 1 Comment

In no uncertain terms, this is the best book I’ve read in recent memory. My wife recommended it to me, and every time a character was in peril I messaged her demanding to know if they’d be okay and cursing her for putting this book in front of me and turning my insides into soup. It has emotion, humor, quips, excitement, political intrigue, and a setting that is both immediately familiar to Sword & Sorcery aficionados and unique and new at the same time. In […]

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jmsudar's CBR15 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Sarah Beth Durst ·
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Outland

Outland by Dennis E Taylor

March 3, 2023 by jmsudar Leave a Comment

Dennis E Taylor is the author of the Bobiverse, one of my guilty pleasure reads. I say pleasure because the books relax me and I gobble them like popcorn, always curious what new adventure is going to come bubbling down the pipe. I say guilty because… they’re not very good. They’re simplistic, naive, and they commit a cardinal sin of treating the main character, Bob, as being able to do anything with enough time and resources (Batman-style) because he’s a tech genius. As someone who […]

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jmsudar's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Dennis E. Taylor ·
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Literature with a Capital L

The Old Man & The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

February 2, 2023 by jmsudar Leave a Comment

I’m not a fan of Literary Fiction. Ultimately, I think it’s a good thing. It’s the concept car of fiction, pushing the envelope and helping to define how the field operates. It’s what my favorite creative writing teacher (though possibly my least favorite, I have two separate people in my head to which I want to attribute this quote) called, Literature with a Capital L. It’s also my least favorite thing to read, because of what I, as an uncultured barely hominid raccoon-person uncharitably call, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Ernest Hemingway

jmsudar's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Ernest Hemingway ·
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The Librarian of Crooked Lane

The Librarian of Crooken Lane by C.J. Archer

February 2, 2023 by jmsudar Leave a Comment

There’s a genre of TV my wife and I return to time and again, for which I shamelessly claim the honor of having named: Comfort Comedy. This is the media equivalent of mac & cheese. Nothing revelatory, nothing risky, and at the end of the day you know you’ll feel satisfied, comforted, and um… full, I guess. This for us is fiction like Bob’s Burgers and Kim’s Convenience. It’ll tell scampy stories with some hijinks but always come back to homeostasis of a loving family who […]

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jmsudar's CBR15 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: C.J. Archer ·
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The Deep

The Deep by Nick Cutter

January 23, 2023 by jmsudar 2 Comments

The dog dies. Horribly. It will make you sad. I checked online to see if the dog died as soon as I read there was a dog, because that’s just something you need to check for with horror stories. I kept reading, hoping the story payoff would be worth it. It was not. I love horror stories, it’s definitely my favorite genre. I have a pretty high tolerance for gore and horrible things happening to people, though I draw the line at like, the insane […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: nick cutter

jmsudar's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: nick cutter ·
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