{"id":11431,"date":"2024-06-10T10:14:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T10:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=11431"},"modified":"2024-06-11T13:03:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T13:03:49","slug":"a-lich-in-time-father-of-monstrosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/a-lich-in-time-father-of-monstrosity\/","title":{"rendered":"A LICH IN TIME &#038; FATHER OF MONSTROSITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0D5DLPL4Z\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The fifth<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/HJ-Tolson\/e\/B09GNW6JX3\/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HJ Tolson<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-half-life-empire-liches-get-stitches\/\" title=\"THE HALF-LIFE EMPIRE &#038; Liches Get Stitches\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liches Get Stitches<\/a> novels turned out to be the conclusion of the series. And while the pacing is a bit on the rushed side, for the most part it fulfills that role beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>A work by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/stores\/Dosei-%E5%9C%9F%E6%98%9F\/author\/B0CMSHLQY6\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the same author<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/assorted-web-novels\/\" title=\"Assorted Web Novels\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madman Apocalypse<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0CMNWF8WG\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Father of Monstrosity<\/a> shares a similar focus on grotesquery and eldritch horror. This story is most definitely <em>not<\/em> a comedy however, instead being a mix of cold-blooded progression fantasy (minus any gaming aspects) and tragedy with small hints of potential romance that get ruthlessly snuffed out. It&#8217;s not a fun read, but it is an interesting one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth of HJ Tolson&#8216;s Liches Get Stitches novels turned out to be the conclusion of the series. And while the pacing is a bit on the rushed side, for the most part it fulfills that role beautifully. A work by the same author as Madman Apocalypse, Father of Monstrosity shares a similar focus on grotesquery and eldritch horror. This story is most definitely not a comedy however, instead being a mix of cold-blooded progression fantasy (minus any gaming aspects) and tragedy with small hints of potential romance that get ruthlessly snuffed out. It&#8217;s not a fun read, but it is an interesting one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[863,28,835,833],"class_list":["post-11431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-dosei","tag-fantasy","tag-hj-tolson","tag-liches-get-stitches"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}