Nick Kyme is an interesting one. He's obvious, ponderous, in some cases boring, fanboyish, and his foreshadowing sucks*, yet for all that, i kind of liked them. They weren't great, and our own fiction boards have much better writers, but the story was enjoyable. When i read it in Beowulf. But i liked it none the less, the ponderousness to me, fits the Salamanders, I hope he's picked his game up, and that these books are good, rather than confined to the Battle of the Abyss section of my library.
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(come on, Iago was a manipulative beslubber when Shakespeare wrote him, who didn't see that coming?, and Dra'Kir's name is two letters of Draken),