

Questland
Author: Carrie Vaughn
Narrator: Erin Bennett
Unabridged: 9 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 06/22/2021
Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Contemporary, Dragons
Author: Carrie Vaughn
Narrator: Erin Bennett
Unabridged: 9 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 06/22/2021
Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Contemporary, Dragons
Carrie Vaughn survived her air force brat childhood and managed to put down roots in Colorado. Her first book, Kitty and the Midnight Hour, launched a popular series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk-radio advice show. She is also the author of Voices of Dragons, her debut novel for teen readers. Ms. Vaughn lives in Colorado.
Westworld meets Jurassic Park... Unicorns. Dragons. Elves. These are a few of my favourite things. I love fantasy and literature and all those things rolled into one so Questland, about a literature professor sent on a quest to take back a fantasy island seemed like an actual dream. It wasn't quite w......more
Carrie Vaughns trek into LitRPG territory is a solid run even if it feels like a half-attempt to legitimize the sub-genre by giving it fairly extensive SF roots, a real-world base, and economic "reasons". Of course, most of the LitRPGs I've read don't bother with any of that. They just go straight in......more
This was a fun, fast read, but really not as good as I expected. It's something of a blend of Crichton's West World or Jurassic Park with Dream Park by Niven and Barnes. (As many of the other reviews have said, but true nonetheless.) There are many genre pop culture nods, some subtle and some not so......more
Our narrator is a college professor in literature who is called in to help a team penetrating an island where a magical theme park is being built with futuristic tech, and which is cut off from the world. Despite being the survivor of a shooting with PTSD. In part because of the literary elements, but......more