The Long Dark: Wintermute - Episode 4

 They finally released the fourth episode in The Long Dark - Wintermute. And it's pretty good. I mean, there are some puzzles that are just tedious. Like in the steam tunnels. The valves. Opening and closing them. I honestly can't say I enjoyed that. Or the parts you have to sprint through because you would suffocate otherwise. Really not a fan of those. Mostly because as you near suffocation, your vision gets blurry and you can't even see properly where you're going. Honestly. Those parts are really bad. 

New Keyboard

 

So, I bought a new keyboard today. A gaming keyboard. Because my old one unfortunately died last week. Too bad that. But now I have a new one. A gaming one again. And I'm super happy with it. And it was relatively cheap. Only about 400CZK. And no, I'm not gonna recalculate that into dollars or euros. Tough luck!  If you wanna know, calculate it yourselves. I'm not doing it. The only thing that was better on the old one is you could change the lighting color scheme. Here it has only one color scheme and then you go on and off. Nothing more. But! And this is a big plus for me, the media keys are separated. You don't need to FN them. I love that about this keyboard. 

And while I was on a shopping spree, I also bought myself some pants and a pair of shoes. Funnily enough, while most girls might spend the most time on the pants (or shoes) I spent most of the time on picking the keyboard. I just couldn't decide. I mean, there was one that I liked even better. Visually I mean. But, it was part of a set that also contained a mouse, mousepad and headphones. And I really don't need those. I have a great mouse and I don't use headphones that much so the pair I have is good enough. And I haven't used a mousepad since I was around 14 or 15 years old. And now I'm 29 so almost 15 years. The only time I use a mousepad is at work as we have the desks covered with a plexiglass. And on one side of the table, the mouse sits on top of the plexiglass and it simply doesn't work on it. So we have to use a mousepad on that side. Luckily, the other side is mousepad-free. 

Just some architecture

 

I promised myself I would post something today. This was offering itself. It is a little old, like two months or so, maybe three, but I think it's good. I like it. And I hope you like it too. It is done with colored pencils if I remember correctly. And some black liner to do the outline. Well, sketchy outline. Do you like it? Tell me in the comments.

Written on the 15th of December, 2021

~AnnElfwind

S. R. Green - Forest Kingdom Saga 3: Hawk & Fisher 6: The Bones of Haven

 

So I have finished another book. This one is called The Bones of Haven. It is the sixth book in the Hawk and Fisher series which is a part of the Forest Kingdom saga. And I enjoyed it immensely. And while it may not be as good as Beyond the Blue Moon, all the Hawk and Fisher books are good in their own way. This one takes us on a Haven SWAT team chase through a prison and then on an infiltration operation to deal with a hostage situation that has two kings captive as well as a whole bunch of other people. 

I will not even attempt to type most of the names in this book. I have listened to it in an audiobook format and well… It makes it hard to know the spelling of some of the more complicated names and this book is brimming with those. So no names. Or, almost no names. 

Like I said. It starts with a prison riot that takes Hawk and Fisher on a trip through a high-security prison and mostly that one wing that is in a separate dimension and from there, it devolves into a hostage situation with two kings that wanted to sign a peace treaty. Add in some escaped prisoners and a nasty ritual requiring mass sacrifice… Well, in the end, Hawk and Fisher need to die to reverse it. And for some reason, they are returned to life afterward. But I already knew that they won't die permanently. After all, I have read the fifth book in the Forest Kingdom Saga which still features them. Alive and relatively well. 

So, yeah. Done with Hawk and Fisher for now, but I did enjoy it and I highly recommend it to you. If you like fantasy, there's a high chance you will like this book. And not just this book. But the whole FK saga. Also, if you've read any books from Salvatore, featuring the drow Drizzt, you will definitely like this. So go and give it a try. I'm sure you will enjoy it. 

And if you want it in an audiobook format, I highly recommend the graphic audio version. It's great and I've started to look for more audiobooks like that. I have the Deathstalker saga and I think (hope) that I have that in the graphic audio format. And why is it so great? Well, it's like having a movie you can listen to. There's sound effects and while there are no visuals, you have narration to substitute for it. And then there are the many different people reading the different characters. And they are doing a great job of it! 

And I think that's it for this post. 

I will see you in the next one. 

~AnnElfwind

Written on the 27th of October, 2021

Hailey Turner - Soulbound V: On the Wings of War

 I'm almost at the end of this book. And I decided to start writing about it while it is still fresh in my memory. I always do better with these posts when I start writing them during reading instead of after I finish the book. 

This book, like all the previous ones, follows special agent Patrick Collins (and his boyfriend Jonno, the god pack werewolf). They are tracking down the Morrigan staff and it leads them to an auction in London. So they drag Lucien in to be the one to bid for the staff as they can't easily get into the auction. Lucien is a vampire. A ruling vampire from New York, Manhattan. 

In London, they encounter the local god pack and find out that one of the leaders is actually a hunter possessed by a demon of a pretty high rank. They dance around each other for a while until it all culminates during the auction and after a big fight, the staff is gone. They track it to Paris and after a bit of searching and a meeting with the Paris god pack, they have to fight their way through a horde of some kind of super zombies and try and defeat the necromancer that seems to have the staff and is a worshiper of some death god from Europe of old. I'm pretty sure the god's name starts with a T, but don't ask me to spell it out, it sounded complicated. I think it was from Slavic folklore specifically.