{"id":914,"date":"2014-08-09T18:05:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T18:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=914"},"modified":"2021-07-25T00:01:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T00:01:35","slug":"of-heroes-and-villains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/of-heroes-and-villains\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Heroes and Villains"},"content":{"rendered":"

I do not have a high opinion of web-based publishing sites. In my experience, most of the stories found on them are far below the quality of even the worst supermarket paperback you may pick up. I stumbled across a link a few days ago however which lead to two particular stories, Of Heroes and Villains<\/em> and the sequel The Ties That Bind<\/em> (both by the relatively new author Minikisa), which are fairly impressive.<\/p>\n

I would say they are easily on par with your average paperback romance\/paranormal romance novel and are indeed actually of a notably higher quality. I know, I know; low bar. Still, it’s something worth noting. Anyway you should judge for yourself. A few preliminary words of warning however:<\/p>\n

The first of these stories is heavily focused on a Male-to-Female transgender, and so if you find that uncomfortable for whatever reason I do not think it would be a good idea to read it. While the setting and characters are very good, the gender identity conflict is rather central and so dislike of that aspect will probably result in dislike of the entire thing. The second story however just has some temporary body-swapping and so should be more or less fine for anyone. Oh, and yeah, there are a few sexual scenes scattered about (more in the first, though neither story makes them the focus).<\/p>\n

Of Heroes And Villains<\/a>
\nThe Ties That Bind<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do not have a high opinion of web-based publishing sites. In my experience, most of the stories found on them are far below the quality of even the worst supermarket paperback you may pick up. I stumbled across a link a few days ago however which lead to two particular stories, Of Heroes and Villains and the sequel The Ties That Bind (both by the relatively new author Minikisa), which are fairly impressive. I would say they are easily on par with your average paperback romance\/paranormal romance novel and are indeed actually of a notably higher quality. I know, I know; low bar. Still, it’s something worth noting. Anyway you should judge for yourself. A few preliminary words of warning however: The first of these stories is heavily focused on a Male-to-Female transgender, and so if you find that uncomfortable for whatever reason I do not think it would be a good idea to read it. While the setting and characters are very good, the gender identity conflict is rather central and so dislike of that aspect will probably result in dislike of the entire thing. The second story however just has some temporary body-swapping and so should be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[129,130,29,62,30,511],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","category-internet-related","tag-minikisa","tag-of-heroes-and-villains","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-science-fiction","tag-urban-fantasy","tag-web-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t