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The biggest problem with time travel, as Douglas Adams pointed out, is the grammar.

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler

October 18, 2026 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Davi is stuck in time loop you guys! She keeps on waking up in a fantasy world, being told she is destined to save everyone from the Dark Lord—and she’s been failing constantly! For a millennium! It’s been really wearing on her; Davi’s kept count of every single go around the merry-go-round. Every single death, every single time: I slip into the sweet embrace of death with a contented sigh. So long, #237. Go fuck a porcupine. It’s a bit like The Legend of Zelda: […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr18bingo18, Dark Lord Davi, Django Wexler, grim dark, meta fiction. fourth wall, success, To new endeavours

LittlePlat's CBR18 Review No:34 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, cbr18bingo18, Dark Lord Davi, Django Wexler, grim dark, meta fiction. fourth wall, success, To new endeavours ·
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“Age would have taken her if they’d just had the sense to leave well enough alone.”

Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence

June 3, 2026 by LittlePlat 3 Comments

More fantasy with older protagonists please! With Daughter of Crows, Mark Lawrence is giving us a new trilogy—one that is not meant to be tied back to his previous works. Despite this, I thought we might end up covering some old ground when I first read the synopsis: a magical academy that exists to train young women to become killers? Doesn’t that sound an awful lot like his Book of the Ancestor series? Thankfully, this turned out not to be the case; the two stories […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, epic fantasy, fantasy with older protagonists, grim dark, Mark Lawrence

LittlePlat's CBR18 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, epic fantasy, fantasy with older protagonists, grim dark, Mark Lawrence ·
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