Welcome to the Trough: Hollow Empire, Remembering the dead, Matrioshka Divide, and others.

In this video I cover many indie works and I go into spoilers for all of them.
I have timestamps below for you to navigate around to whatever book you want to hear about.
The last lonely trail 4:51-10:10
The Matrioshka Divide 10:10-39:26
The House on the Borderland 39:26-41:02
The Report of Mr. Charles Aalmers 41:02-47:17
Hollow Empire 47:17-1:05:14
Warren Walker Books 1:05:14-1:22:05
Lewis Woolston Books 1:22:05-1:46:17
Link to Hollow Empire www.amazon.com...
Link to Lewis Woolston www.amazon.com...
Here's a link to my Odysee channel and my review of King Cringe's books. odysee.com/@wh...
And here's a link for you to read his books for free. kingcringe.sub...
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[@AJBell-dh6ry]

I'm having my coffee and getting ready for work, listening to you talk. And when you got to the baby saddle part, I stopped, and my jaw kinda hit the floor. Like, what?

[@lance-biggums]

My wife makes sourdough air fryer donuts that turn out awesome. It's also just great for making good old fries.

[@JorgeRodriguez-my6ej]

Channels like yours are so crucial right now in shedding light on non-cvck3d writers. Keep up the good work 🫡

[@jordanallenauthor]

Cheers for the review of Hollow Empire, WPM! Just a note about the epilogue of Moonlit Soul. Tarn still had both of his arms there, I think the Dungeon of the Lost One messed with your memories, ha. The epilogue for Moonlit is set just before Empire and it shows Tarn receiving Edith as a target. For Alvaro, I wrote myself into a slight corner in the timeline because he and Eburhard are on their way to the Necropolis during this book. Not to spoil too much, but he WILL be back in Book 5.

[@whitepillmedia]

I should have re-read the Moonlit Soul's epilogue. I remembered one of the Blood Moon assassins missing an arm and thought it was Tarn but I'm wrong. I confused Guion for Tarn and he's missing a hand there. So, when Tarn got his arm cut off it made me think of the missing hand. Also, yeah it sets up his target as Edith so there's that too. Always good to have more Alvaro. Looking forward to it.

[@jordanallenauthor]

@@whitepillmedia It's all good. I can see why the Guion mix-up would happen considering the similarities, but it was more intended to be an ironic punishment for Tarn considering he engineered Guion's lost hand. I also forgot to mention in my last comment that on page 49, it's said that Gresten had no intention of leaving Falduran after witnessing Leopold's cruelty even before Dahn spoke to him.

[@whitepillmedia]

@@jordanallenauthor It does say that on 49. My bad. Must've glossed over it after he started to leave.

[@SouthwesternScourgeMedia]

Thank you so much for your feedback, I appreciate it very much. The negative feedback is every bit as valuable as the positive, and I'm extremely thankful you toughed it out even though you didn't like it. I know you said you're done, but if youd ever like a copy of my future work, for review or just to read for yourself, I'd be more than happy to provide you with them. Thanks again man, 🤘🏻

[@whitepillmedia]

I would consider more in the future depending on what it was. I think you do do a really good job with action scenes and your descriptions definitely paint a picture. But the characters go beyond the pale and are so villainous that I would lose interest in them. I thought all the interactions with Rah and Liam and Rachel were good and I did care for them and wanted them to be alright. I thought Roy and his band would show up and kill them and that would spur Rah on, but making it Rah's choice without outside interference is probably better. But with Iron Scar, once he leaves Liam behind then it's just Rah and since he's already far beyond redemption I wasn't emotionally invested. Action scenes where I'm not interested in the outcome of them started to fall off.

[@SouthwesternScourgeMedia]

@@whitepillmedia For the foreseeable future, I don't think I have anything planned where the violence is toned down, or where you could call the people perpetrating it "heroes". However my next project will be more structured and story/character driven than PB or IS was. If the action isn't your thing, I'd offer up that I have some very family friendly, cozy, fantasy series on my channel that I think might take you very off guard given your initial impressions. 🤘🏻

[@whitepillmedia]

@@SouthwesternScourgeMedia Gotcha. I do think something more character driven would be interesting. Fantasy series sounds interesting and I'll give it a try.