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@@ -3359,6 +3359,7 @@ Not bad for a 6 hour game.
 :PROPERTIES:
 :EXPORT_HUGO_SECTION: fantasy/chronicles-of-amber/
 :EXPORT_HUGO_MENU: :menu "brain-rot-fantasy-amber"
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :primary_menu "brain-rot-fantasy-amber"
 :END:
 
 *** DONE Nine Princes in Amber (Roger Zelazny, 1970)
@@ -3412,8 +3413,6 @@ If anything, it's /Magnum P.I./ of the genre.
 [fn:cover] or whatever your edition has
 [fn:tolkien] hello Tolkien
 
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 *** DONE Guns of Avalon (Roger Zelazny, 1972)
 CLOSED: [2024-08-31 Sat 22:25]
 :PROPERTIES:
@@ -3422,12 +3421,13 @@ CLOSED: [2024-08-31 Sat 22:25]
 :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :rating 4
 :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :image covers/guns-of-avalon.jpg
 :END:
+
 The fastest fantasy in the wild west continues where we left off.
 Corwin escaped his prison, and armed with newly regrown eyes, is ready for his revenge.
 
-/Chronicles of Amber/ are like nothing I've ever read.
+/[[/fantasy/chronicles-of-amber/][Chronicles of Amber]]/ are like nothing I've ever read.
 Mostly because I've never been into fantasy, but still.
-At no point of /Guns of Avalon/ nor of /Nine Princes in Amber/ have I felt that I'm reading a published book.
+At no point of /Guns of Avalon/ nor of /[[/fantasy/chronicles-of-amber/nine-princes-in-amber/][Nine Princes in Amber]]/ have I felt that I'm reading a published book.
 It's rather what I would imagine as a synopsis of the book that one sends to an agent would look like.
 
 #+attr_shortcode: 4 "guns-of-avalon.jpg" 
@@ -3453,7 +3453,7 @@ I am very much invested and I interested what's going to happen.
 I should hate this book, but I love it.
 
 Zelazny, you were a strange writer indeed.
-This series like a creation of some D&D infused teen, and yet I can't put it away.
+This series reads like a creation of some D&D infused teen, and yet I can't put it away.
 
 [fn:shadows] or whatever Shadows are
 
@@ -3481,9 +3481,9 @@ It's a wholly different experience than what we've had before.
 Cover
 #+end_rating
 We've got intrigue, we've got drama, we've got betrayal.
-We even learn who stands behind Corwin's accident, which happened before the start of /Nine Princess/.
+We even learn who stands behind Corwin's accident, which happened before the start of /[[/fantasy/chronicles-of-amber/nine-princes-in-amber/][Nine Princess...]]/.
 
-This may the best book of /Chronicles of Amber/ yet because Zelazny seems to address most of the downsides the earlier books had.
+This may the best book of /[[/fantasy/chronicles-of-amber/][Chronicles of Amber]]/ yet because Zelazny seems to address most of the downsides the earlier books had.
 Characters became actual persons now, with motivation and aspirations.
 In fact, the world building is sidestepping for character building, and I, for one, am fully for this.
 
@@ -3495,23 +3495,44 @@ The only downside I see, at leat at this point, is that everyone important is ei
 I get that if you got your position of power purely from the family, the same family will be the centre of your life, but /come on!/.
 I want to get to know someone else!
 
-So, volume three of /Chronicles of Amber/ looks more of a correction from the author, than a direct continuation.
+So, volume three of /[[/fantasy/chronicles-of-amber/][Chronicles of Amber]]/ looks more of a correction from the author, than a direct continuation.
 
-*** TODO Hand of Oberon (Roger Zelazny, 1976) 
+*** DONE Hand of Oberon (Roger Zelazny, 1976) 
+CLOSED: [2024-09-22 Sun 22:42]
 :PROPERTIES:
 :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: hand-of-oberon-1976
-:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract My short revoew
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract My short review
 :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :rating 4
-:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :image brain-rot/covers/hand-of-oberon.jpg
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :image /covers/hand-of-oberon.jpg
 :END:
 
-The plot tickens!
-We end where we left of: turns out that Amber is the home of the original Pattern, which is badily damaged and we need to fix it.
+The plot thickens!
+We end where we left of: turns out that Amber is the home of the original Pattern, which is badly damaged, and we need to fix it.
 
-I think I start to understand why I find /Chronicles/ so particular, yet I can't put it away.
-The volumes here are not volumes with and beggining and end.
-It's closer to modern day TV, where you get an interesting hook at the end, the middle is ok-ish but the end makes you hungry for the next episode.
+I think I start to understand why I find /[[/fantasy/chronicles-of-amber/][Chronicles]]/ so particular, yet I can't put it away.
+The volumes here are not distinct parts with an an beginning and an end.
+It's closer to modern-day TV, where you get an interesting hook at the beginning, the middle is ok-ish, but the end makes you hungry for the next episode.
 As much as I hate that /binge-watching/ formula, I have nothing against it here.
-Fantasy books rarely make anyone rich, but a man's gotta eat.
+Fantasy books rarely make anyone rich, but a man's got to eat.
 The length of each volume here also doesn't make it any worse, as they all about 200 pages long.
 Brandon Sanderson's signature is longer than that.
+
+#+attr_shortcode: 4 "hand-of-oberon.jpg" 
+#+begin_rating
+Cover
+#+end_rating
+Story wise, /Hand of Oberon/ is more of the same: scheming of Corwin's family and deepening the world.
+The world is not redefined again, but we're once again getting something surprising.
+However, since it's the 4th book, it comes a bit predictable[fn:exp].
+While I was not expecting the Avalon not to be /the real/ Avalon in the /[[/fantasy/chronicles-of-amber/sign-of-the-unicorn-1975/][Sign of the Unicorn]]/, here the surprise came both, less unexpected and a bit and less important.
+But we will see in the next book.
+
+All in all, while I had /loads/ of fun, /Hand of Oberon/ is only the 4th book of the series.
+If you've read it until this point, you'll have a blast one more time.
+I surely had!
+Now, this one of the first /fantasy series/ I've read but, I am surprised by the stability of quality.
+While Zelazny has made some changes to the formula since /[[/fantasy/chronicles-of-amber/nine-princes-in-amber/][Nine Princess...]]/, they were not significant enough to have any impact on my joy. I like the later volumes more than the first two, mostly due to the slower pace, but I have the same level of satisfaction.
+
+I've got one last chapter of Corwin's story and I can't wait!
+
+[fn:exp] make that "very" if you read a lot of such stories