Reviewer: breastclimber Signed [Report This]
Date: August 21 2023 6:29 PM Title: A Tavern Brawl to Remember

I have really been enjoying the Amazon stories.   Especially the original one where you used dreams as a mechanism for greater height with the priestess.   I was really hoping Dirk would marry her too early on because I wanted to see a dynamic between them all as more of an intimate trio rather than separating them out.

In this one I really like Annie even though she is so new at being an Amazon.  It's fun that you have a Dark Elf to shrink the humans with!

I have been in the process of reading your entire library of works, as I like the tone you set for your stories in general.   I even got my wife who isn't into GTS to read some of the stories in your short story collection and she liked them.   The GM witch, the succubus, the mile high story.

Anyway hope you keep writing, and OMG what a cliffhanger on this one!  Meanie!! lol.

Author's Response:

Yep this one's a literal cliffhanger almost lol. Anyways glad you and your wife are enjoying it, these Amazon stories are fun ones to write, lots of adventure and action to go with the smut. We will see a little of Dirk, Cora, and Cynthia by the end of this story, it's a sort of post-script for the original Amazon Country after all.

Reviewer: It Was Me Signed [Report This]
Date: August 05 2023 3:57 AM Title: A Tavern Brawl to Remember

Holy shit! Another Amazon Country story AND it features Griselda?!

I thought The Lady Griselda was one of the more intriguing characters from the original story, a complicated villain, to be sure, but not one of those misunderstood types, though one that certainly had some redeeming qualities. Now, it looks like we're getting a redemption arc! Who doesn't love those?

It's good to see that even years after her humbling defeat and exile, Palledia hasn't completely shed all of that arrogance and pride. She refers to Dirk as "the man who had been her undoing"; I mean, yeah, how dare he not accept being forced to marry her and watch her steal all of his gold! She's even depressed that nobody tried to kill her after she was discharged, as though it was more important to be hated than to not be remembered at all, which fits that character really well.

Seeing her try to adapt to the mannish lands is pretty fun, especially how annoyed she is with Clyde courting Annie. It's not even that she doesn't like Clyde; she's just not impressed with his "war stories" and wants Annie to be the aggressor and protector in the relationship. The world should conform to the Queendom, after all.

Still, our disgraced protagonist does display some real remorse for her past actions. She's hard on herself (and justifiably so), feeling as though she's failed not only as an amazon but her goddess as well. And her feelings about not being worthy of her mother's spear are pretty powerful given her pride as a warrior. It's nice to see that the consequences of her actions have weighed on her over the years.

It'll be interesting to see if she's put in another ends-justify-the-means type scenario, and, if so, if she'll make a better choice this time.

Svetlana is my first time seeing a member of the Winter Court in one of your stories. If she's any indication, they same a bit more laid back (though no less mischievous) than their northern cousins. She's a fun character, and one I initially thought was going to hang in the background in this chapter, so I was pretty stoked when she made party-member status. Also that "A-Arturus!?" bit was a classic and well used here. It fit the character really well and had me cracking up.

Annie has me a bit curious. She had some traits you could say were kind of amazon-ish before the change, such as her desire to learn swordplay, loving Palledia's violent tendencies with unruly customers, and even being the one to make a move on Clyde (and her desire to be on top), but man, that switch really flipped once the seal broke. Maybe gaining six feet will do that to you, but I'm wondering if Diana's blessing doesn't do a little something more than just grow and strengthen.

And I'm slightly disappointed that Clyde's "Die monster!" wasn't followed up with a "You don't belong in this world!" I swear to God, if Tyrael's Quest doesn't end with her gathering up all of Varnay's body parts from various castles and whipping him to death before he can even start flying in a constant 2D circle, well, let's just say it'll be a horrible night to have a curse.

Again, I'm glad to see us heading back to the Queendom, and I look forward to seeing where the next two chapters take us.

Author's Response:

Griselda is certainly remorseful, she's still a staunch Amazon chauvinist of sorts though obviously. You might say that while she's certainly learned the error of her ways she still has some growing to do before she's really ready to climb out of the hole she dug for herself.

Annie was always a bit rough and tumble, but she's got a lot to learn about being an amazon, it's not all getting to be the big spoon after a round of Snu-Snu.

The Winter Court is certainly a more laid back group than their northern cousins, if you haven't ready my one shot The Dark Elf's Apprentice you can check that out to get an idea of what they're like.

I imagine that in Tyrael's Quest Varnay has "Bloody Tears" loaded up on his fight playlist lol.