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    Fantastiqa

    Fantastiqa

    9.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

    Tabletop Game

    Welcome to the wild, weird world of FANTASTIQA! Fantastiqa is a deck-building board game set in a...

    Fuji Koro

    Fuji Koro

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    Japan Hōsei 4 (1707). Mount Fuji is on the verge of erupting. Red hot lava will soon consume the...

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Debbiereadsbook (1413 KP) rated Giving the Dragon Fire in Books

Jun 2, 2024  
Giving the Dragon Fire
Giving the Dragon Fire
Victoria Jayne | 2024 | Paranormal, Romance
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
more of an emotional connection would have been nice!
Independent reviewer for Archaeolibrarain, I was gifted my copy of this book.

Gideon meets Ella and their chemistry is smokin! Literally! But Ella can't possibly be his mate, since she is human and dragons only mate with dragons. Right?

I liked this, for the most part. It's 250 odd pages, but it's a quick read, and an easy one.

I liked that both Gideon and Ella have a say. I liked that they are both suffering this attraction thing, and it's messing with both their equilibriums. I liked the smexiness level, it really is smokin hot.

BUT

I didn't like the smexiness level! Contradicting myself I know, but lemme explain.

Every time these two cross paths, there is smex. EVERY time. And while I do like my books on the steamier side, I do like some story with my steam, ok? And for a while, I was gonna dump this simply because all Ella and Gideon did was have smex. *I* found it too much, and that has to be saying something!!

So, what I'm trying to say is, I would have liked some other connecton between Ella and Gideon that wasn't horizontal. More of an emotional connection would have been nice. Once they decide to give this mate thing a go, the book then ends with an epilogue and I wanted more of that interim period.

I also was a bit lost as to Gideon getting his fire. He was convinced that Ella wasn't his mate because she couldn't give the dragon his fire. Then all of a sudden, he had it. Something happened (but spoilers!), but one scene he didn't, then he next, he did. No explaination as to HOW he got it.

So, some gaps in the plot, but once I got over my hissy fit, and finished the book, I can honestly say, I liked it. And it's the first I've read of this author. I'd like to read more of this group of people.

3 good stars

*same worded review will appear elsewhere
  
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Peter Shephard (2822 KP) rated Munchkin in Tabletop Games

Jun 12, 2019  
Munchkin
Munchkin
2001 | Card Game, Fantasy, Fighting, Humor
8
7.4 (35 Ratings)
Tabletop Game Rating
Easy to pick up, great expansions (0 more)
Excellent group game
One of the easiest to learn games, yet the most fun, games I've played. The cards are almost entirely self explanatory, and the huge amount of nods to the different variations and flavours of games (particularly Dungeons and Dragons) is brilliant.

Whether you fight the Level 8 Gazebo, the Level 1 Potted Plant, or the Level 20 Plutonium Dragon, the deals you can make with your friends and enemies can be almost anything - we even house rule that it can be outside of the game (for example, "I will make the next drink if you help me in this fight, and only take 1 treasure"). Its also entirely possible to "help" in the fight, but sabotage the fight so they dont gain levels!

With dozens of expansions, too, the game can grow and grow, and if you like a particular genre, they probably have it as an option (Sci Fi? Space Munchkin. Vampires? Munchkin Bites etc) - and they can all be played in one huge pile, if you want!!

Brilliant game
  
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Cori June (3033 KP) rated Tiger's Voyage in Books

Nov 10, 2018  
Tiger's Voyage
Tiger's Voyage
Colleen Houck | 2011 | Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)
9
9.0 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
The dragons (0 more)
Lots of which one should I choose let's look at things logically, while ignoring everything I learn. (0 more)
This book starts about a month
after the second book ends. It really plays up the love triangle thing but still has the adventure parts too. Unfortunatly, Kelsey is distracted by who to choose and why that she gets distracted easily. Kudos to her though because she doesn't "check out" when Ren doesn't remember her and her heart is broken (unlike the girl who has to choose between the sparkly vampire and the not werewolf because- he is Native American and the European rules of werewolf don't apply and he really could have shapechanged into a bear or cougar....)
I think the dragon's are fun characters and the gold dragon reminds me of Frank Burns but that might be because I was watching a MASH marathon while reading this.
I also enjoy the diving instructor. I know people whose accent will disappear or get thicker to tease, confuse, or disarm someone.
  
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Merissa (12699 KP) created a post

Feb 14, 2021  
Don't forget to add #Hiraeth to your TBR list!

Ellis Clarke has never felt at home anywhere, always feeling a sense of nostalgia for somewhere that she doesn’t know. When she goes to Beddgelert on vacation, she is overwhelmed by the feeling of belonging. Of course, the handsome Luke may have something to do with that.
 
Luke Maddox is a Guardian of Wales, a red Dragon who patrols the skies with the rest of his Weyr. When he meets Ellis and she is welcomed home by Merlin, he knows he has found the other half of him... but only if Ellis acknowledges him.

How will she claim him when she has no knowledge of being either a Guardian or a Dragon? Will Ellis find and accept her lost responsibility or will Luke fade away before she figures it out?

'Hiraeth is a Welsh word for homesickness or nostalgia, an earnest longing or desire, or a sense of regret.'

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55525820-hiraeth

#Contemporary
#MagicalRealism
#Dragons
#Wales