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Yeah not as simplified as if they simply Transfigured themself into an animal. In that case they wouldn't even keep their human mind. The book said:
>While in their animal form, they retain most of their ability to think as a human, their own sense of identity and their memories. [...] However, feelings and emotions are simplified and they will have many animal desires
Just discovered this series and absolutely love it. Two books are out on Amazon with the third coming in April. The third book and the start of the fourth are also available on Royal Road.
It's a mix between Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Hunger Games/Battle Royale type dystopian novels with litRPG mechanics. Quick read, very funny and the writing and editing is solid.
They're shorter and definitely lighter fare, but the other series I always pick up as soon as they are released are the Starship's Mage books by Glynn Stewart (https://www.amazon.com/Starships-Mage-Glynn-Stewart-ebook/dp/B00QW6ZG14)
Stewart has a bunch of fairly boilerplate sci-fi series in terms of character and plot with excellent fleet combat scenes and a lot of creativity when it comes to coming up with different sets of technologies/features of the setting that enable, say, FTL travel, or prioritize fighter combat vs capital ship combat, and extrapolating out interesting uses for that technology that fit in-universe.
Starship's Mage is his series where the MacGuffin isn't some sort of special technology, but instead that 200 years from now a very illegal eugenics operation is undertaken to discover and activate latent genes that let its bearers use magic. FTL travel then becomes feeding the energy to perform a teleportation spell into a specialized rune matrix that causes an entire ship to jump 1 light-year instead of one person to jump 1 mile.
The series follows a young mage who joins a merchant ship as a jump mage but quickly realizes that his abilities in magic are far beyond that of normal mages and is eventually recruited by the government to become, in effect, a one-man peacekeeping force. In the background, a set of anti-mage systems are slowly moving towards open rebellion against the rest of the empire through the technological development of FTL travel and communications.
One nice thing is that the guy writes as fast as Brandon does. A new book every year in that series, and if you branch out to his other series, he puts out like 3-4 books a year on a rotating schedule.
While my books aren’t (yet) for sale locally, you can order a paperback of Apocalypse Parenting #1: Time to Play off of Amazon. (You can also gift someone an eBook from Amazon. Here's how.) You should check it out if you:
• like post-apocalyptic literature, litRPG, or pop sci-fi, but would be interested in seeing a protagonist who isn’t a single young adult without attachments or responsibilities
• wonder why more science fiction isn’t set in the Huntsville area when it’s basically the nerd capital of the south
• want to support a local author with over 4.7 stars on Amazon, almost 200 reviews, and an audiobook coming early next year produced by Podium Audio
I should note that the paperback cover will be updated to match the redone eBook cover in the next few months, which could either be a selling point (limited edition! Could be a collector's item if I make it big!) or the opposite. Food for thought either way. I'm also part of Kindle Unlimited, so you can check me out for no extra charge if you have that service.
So how else to describe Super Sales on Super Heroes? Should I just say I like it? I feel like that doesn't convey my relationship to that book...
Have you seen Erin Ampersand's: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/47434/apocalypse-parenting https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B3XT4TCJ
It taps into a lot of stressors and issues of a family and community. I'm of the opinion that it's really strong for having focused in on family/friends/community in a radically changing situation.
The Golden Enclaves, by Naomi Novik. Conclusion to a fantasy "magical school" trilogy that really sticks the landing (though there are clearly more stories that could be told). The moment I finished, I literally went back and reread the entire trilogy. It's wonderful how many subtle clues she seeded from the very first page, that bore fruit in book three.
These books almost certainly started life as a reaction to the high student injury rate at Hogwarts, with Novik inventing a world in which wizard parents might plausibly risk their children at such a dangerous place. But it's far more than just a Potter fanfic. The main characters are teenagers, but their concerns could not be more adult. And a lot of the third book is a surprisingly strong metaphor for capitalism, of all things!
First book is here. Amazon will let you read a good chunk of chapter one, which was enough to hook me.
You could check out my series, Apocalypse Parenting (book #1 out now, book #2 should finish up in the next month or two on Royal Road).
Some of the characters are the farthest thing from mature, as literal children, but rest of the main cast mainly consists of parents and geriatric people. The main character is a mother of three.
Yeah, I second the Pottermore notes. They're a lot of fun and especially good for backstory on some of my favorite characters.
You can find them on Amazon too, here's one example - https://www.amazon.com/Hogwarts-Hardship-Dangerous-Pottermore-Presents-ebook/dp/B01JLXETNK/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=1KYL3870UEPU6&keywords=pottermore&qid=1663022132&sprefix=pottermore%2Caps%2C127&sr=8-1
It's not exactly what you're looking for (not rational enough), but I quite like Dungeon Crawler Carl. (First couple books are now on Amazon, current book is on RR / Patreon)
An alien appears and advises you that in one week every structure on the planet, from chicken coop to Taj Mahal, is going to be sucked down into the ground. Everyone and everything in those structures will be destroyed...except not quite. They will be placed in storage, and if some human can fight their way through 18 levels of monster-infested dungeon then they will gain control of Earth and can put everything and everyone back the way it was. If no one can do it then the Earth will be strip mined and all the stored people and things will be reclaimed by the aliens.
You are a YouTuber with a platform of 200,000 and you rise to the challenge. What will you bring with you? Who will you invite to come along? The choice is up to you and all of the other readers who choose to vote.
This is a quest written by yours truly and set in the universe of Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl. As of this posting we are 6 chapters in so the initial decisions have been made but there's still a lot to do if you want to recover the Earth! Drop by and join in the fun.
Apocalypse Parenting has over 1,400 followers on Royal Road, and you can now read it as part of Kindle Unlimited or buy it on Amazon!
Synopsis:
A few minutes ago, Meghan Moretti's biggest concern was getting the kids' athletic clothes washed in time for practice this evening. Now, it seems that Earth has been forced into participating in some high-stakes intergalactic reality television. All electrical wiring has been slagged, and most combustibles neutralized. Some kind of evil space rodents are appearing on the front lawn, too.
Like any parent, Meghan's first instinct is to keep her young kids safely away from the monsters, but an odd stroke of luck has her coming into some advanced information about this dangerous game. She learns that her kids will have to fight too.
What's a mom to do?
Apocalypse Parenting is a stats-lite LitRPG, my attempt at making an "only the interesting bits" system: enough there to theorycraft with, but not endless stat blocks to scroll past. Read this book if you like the sound of:
A book that reached the top rated books on Royal Road with nearly 1,500 followers
A middle-aged mom protagonist
Kids who are actual characters
A slow start with focus on the details. What can you find in an average suburban home to use as armor? Weapons?
A protagonist who doesn't start off exceptionally lucky, strong, or badass
Thanks for considering reading. If you like it, I hope you'll leave me a review on Amazon! Here's the link again: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B3XT4TCJ
Apocalypse Parenting has over 1,400 followers on Royal Road, and you can now read it as part of Kindle Unlimited!
Synopsis:
A few minutes ago, Meghan Moretti's biggest concern was getting the kids' athletic clothes washed in time for practice this evening. Now, it seems that Earth has been forced into participating in some high-stakes intergalactic reality television. All electrical wiring has been slagged, and most combustibles neutralized. Some kind of evil space rodents are appearing on the front lawn, too.
Like any parent, Meghan's first instinct is to keep her young kids safely away from the monsters, but an odd stroke of luck has her coming into some advanced information about this dangerous game. She learns that her kids will have to fight too.
What's a mom to do?
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Apocalypse Parenting is a stats-lite LitRPG, my attempt at making an "only the interesting bits" system: enough there to theorycraft with, but not endless stat blocks to scroll past. Read this book if you like the sound of:
A book that reached the top rated books on Royal Road with nearly 1,500 followers
A middle-aged mom protagonist
Kids who are actual characters
A slow start with focus on the details. What can you find in an average suburban home to use as armor? Weapons?
A protagonist who doesn't start off exceptionally lucky, strong, or badass
Thanks for considering reading. If you like it, I hope you'll leave me a review on Amazon! Here's the link again: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B3XT4TCJ
Not a high fantasy, but a fun read. Good Intentions tells the story of a young man who disrupts an occult ceremony and accidentally binds both a succubus and an angel to himself. From there it goes through a sexy, twisty story involving vampires, witches, demons, and other creatures who want to kill him and his partners. Lots of explicit sex, but good story and fun characters. The series is 4 books, but I'm still on book 1.
Naomi Novik's Scholomance series, as the other person said the first book is Deadly Education.
Currently the Kindle version is on sale!
Is this the one?
This is one of the ebooks Rowling published with the most important writings she did for the old Pottermore. I don't know if this is on the Wizarding World website nowadays. The new website sucks.
Wiliam D Arand has various cross-universe works.
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Super-Sales-Heroes-William-Arand-ebook/dp/B072HQF1B6 is one of the 'offshoot' works.
I did not in general feel this added to the individual books.
Not exactly clear, but in the description of how to become an Animagi which Rowling wrote in one of her E-Books it is noted that it's always the animal that becomes your patronus.
>The animal into which one turns, if an Animagus, seems always to be that which becomes the Patronus. There is no known instance of the Animagus form changing to match the Patronus if the latter changes, but the Animagus who can also produce a Patronus is highly unusual and no study has ever been done on sufficient numbers to draw firm conclusions.
So stuff like personality probably plays a role. Though names probably also affect things somewhat, as Sirius Black turned into a large Black Dog(Sirius himself being named after the Dog Star)
Which is why, in "galactic reality-show" type games like <u>Dungeon Crawler Carl</u> or <u>They Called Me MAD!</u>, it's always shown that the human population VERY quickly goes from 7.5 billion to around 1-2 billion. Literally 80% of humanity dead in a week.
If you don't mind polyamory and erotica, "Good Intentions" by Elliot Kay have *exactly* what you need:
Oh great! Lol no one I know has that subscription so I can never recommend books to them.
Well if thats the case I hope you dont mind if I slide another recommendation your way. Starship Mage by Glynn Stewart
Hmm, the premise is a little harder to explain without spoiling anything. But the gist is that in the future a Eugenics program results in magic being bred back into humanity. With magic the stars themselves became within humanities reach. Hundreds of years later mages are an integral part of humanity since they are the only means by which ships can travel between the stars. The main character is a mage. I dont want to say anything more for fear of spoiling anything. The first book might have a more spoiler free synopsis.
Short stories from hogwarts. They are digital releases from jkr! It’s great! I had a great time reading all 3 of them. Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies (Kindle Single) (Pottermore Presents Book 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JLXETNK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_H.CaGb7GMHDNR
Yes, but that is an advanced ability.
It's mentioned as part of the process of becoming an animagus in one of the E-books Rowling wrote.
> 10.To return to a human form, visualise your human self as clearly as you can. This should be sufficient, but do not panic if the transformation does not occur immediately. With practice, you will be able to slip in and out of your animal form at will, simply by visualising the creature. Advanced Animagi can transform without wands.
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Highly recommend Short stories written as a supplement to the books. Also if you're interested in some fan fiction I really enjoyed Herminone's POV