Shadiversity "Chronicles of Everfall – Shadow of the Conqueror" full book review reading
Channel: Paul Spooner
Date: 2021-11-10

I wrote a big long review of Shad's first published book. Summary here: https://youtu.be/nPsvJqCR93M
It's so long that many people have trouble reading the whole thing, but if you want to you can read the whole nineteen thousand word review here:
https://peripheralarbor.com/author/SOTC/
Or just listen to this stream. I did a bit of commentary as well. If you are interested in my other writing and readings, I invite you to peruse author.tryop.com

Timestamps:
00:00 Warmup
00:28 Title and Introduction
03:41 Show, Don't Tell
11:19 A Few Typos
12:25 Examples of Bad Descriptions
16:16 Blaring
19:43 Dialogue
23:20 SPOILERS
24:07 Authorial Mechanics
25:40 Angst Storm
26:47 Marty Stu
34:22 Foreshadowing
38:14 Hate Daylen
57:46 The Setting of Everfall
1:00:22 Darkstone
1:10:50 World Wrapping
1:24:00 The Sun in Everfall Doesn’t Move
1:40:21 The Shade
1:43:50 Night in Everfall
1:46:01 The Archknights and Lightbringers
1:55:08 Wrapping up
1:56:52 Better as a Video Game?
1:57:58 No Brandon Sanderson
2:00:48 Outro