{"id":13986,"date":"2026-05-24T12:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=13986"},"modified":"2026-05-24T12:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T12:55:54","slug":"a-bond-between-equals-the-op-lich-is-a-returnee-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/a-bond-between-equals-the-op-lich-is-a-returnee-22\/","title":{"rendered":"A BOND BETWEEN EQUALS & The OP Lich IS A RETURNEE #22"},"content":{"rendered":"

The main thing to be aware of going into Luca De Rosa<\/a>‘s A Bond Between Equals<\/a> is that it features frequent, detailed, sexual scenes which tend to have a heavy focus on fluid dynamics. Less detailed is the System implementation, justified in-universe by it being on its last legs (to a greater degree than Heretical Fishing<\/a>‘s), and the character interactions can be a bit uneven. What ended up being a deal-killer for me was how that whole computer room scene at the end played out and its implications for future developments… most notably the complete about-face on the harem issue.<\/p>\n

Stuart Grosse<\/a>‘s twenty-second<\/a> Lich Returnee<\/a> novella is one of the more laid-back ones focused on magecraft. It does however end with the indication that both the dragon subplot and the ‘left a hero behind on that fantasy world’ subplot are going to take center stage soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The main thing to be aware of going into Luca De Rosa‘s A Bond Between Equals is that it features frequent, detailed, sexual scenes which tend to have a heavy focus on fluid dynamics. Less detailed is the System implementation, justified in-universe by it being on its last legs (to a greater degree than Heretical Fishing‘s), and the character interactions can be a bit uneven. What ended up being a deal-killer for me was how that whole computer room scene at the end played out and its implications for future developments… most notably the complete about-face on the harem issue. Stuart Grosse‘s twenty-second Lich Returnee novella is one of the more laid-back ones focused on magecraft. It does however end with the indication that both the dragon subplot and the ‘left a hero behind on that fantasy world’ subplot are going to take center stage soon.<\/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":[1335,28,812,1334,841,29,62,813,30],"class_list":["post-13986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-bound-to-the-fallen","tag-fantasy","tag-lich-returnee","tag-luca-de-rosa","tag-novella","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-science-fiction","tag-stuart-grosse","tag-urban-fantasy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986","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=13986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}