Luke Adams
@lukeadamswrites.bsky.social
I review speculative fiction for The Speculative Review, which isn't as cool as it sounds. I also (occasionally) write my own fiction.
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The new War of the Worlds movie would be in so bad its good territory if it wasn't such a blatant advertisement for Amazon...
August 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The new War of the Worlds movie would be in so bad its good territory if it wasn't such a blatant advertisement for Amazon...
⭐ARC REVIEW 💙📚🪐
Eternity's Blade by William Collis
A Japan inspired fantasy with some beautiful prose that favours style over substance.
I gave it 3 ⭐s
Read my full review below!
Eternity's Blade by William Collis
A Japan inspired fantasy with some beautiful prose that favours style over substance.
I gave it 3 ⭐s
Read my full review below!
Review: Eternity’s Blade by William Collis
A Japan inspired fantasy with some beautiful prose but a vague plot that champions style over substance.
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August 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
⭐ARC REVIEW 💙📚🪐
Eternity's Blade by William Collis
A Japan inspired fantasy with some beautiful prose that favours style over substance.
I gave it 3 ⭐s
Read my full review below!
Eternity's Blade by William Collis
A Japan inspired fantasy with some beautiful prose that favours style over substance.
I gave it 3 ⭐s
Read my full review below!
You want some indie fantasy books to read? Because I have some indie fantasy books you should read. They're all available on Kindle Unlimited and are pretty great. Check it out.
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6 Must-Read Indie Fantasy Books That Deserve a Spot on Your Shelf
6 amazing indie fantasy novels that are well worth the read
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August 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
You want some indie fantasy books to read? Because I have some indie fantasy books you should read. They're all available on Kindle Unlimited and are pretty great. Check it out.
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⭐️ARC Review⭐️
Released August 5th. Get it now!
A riveting, tense, and explosive continuation of The Last Draegion Saga with more of the brilliant characters and world building that made the first so great and the stakes turned up to eleven
I gave it 5 ⭐️
Read my full review below!
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Released August 5th. Get it now!
A riveting, tense, and explosive continuation of The Last Draegion Saga with more of the brilliant characters and world building that made the first so great and the stakes turned up to eleven
I gave it 5 ⭐️
Read my full review below!
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Review: Embers Rising by Cindy L. Sell
A riveting, tense and explosive continuation of The Last Draegion Saga with more of the brilliant characters and world building that made the first so great and the stakes turned up to eleven.
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August 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
⭐️ARC Review⭐️
Released August 5th. Get it now!
A riveting, tense, and explosive continuation of The Last Draegion Saga with more of the brilliant characters and world building that made the first so great and the stakes turned up to eleven
I gave it 5 ⭐️
Read my full review below!
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Released August 5th. Get it now!
A riveting, tense, and explosive continuation of The Last Draegion Saga with more of the brilliant characters and world building that made the first so great and the stakes turned up to eleven
I gave it 5 ⭐️
Read my full review below!
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⭐️ARC Review⭐️
Released July 29th
A low stakes fantasy adventure that feels like it would be better suited for middle grade readers.
I gave it 2 ⭐️
Read my full review below!
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Released July 29th
A low stakes fantasy adventure that feels like it would be better suited for middle grade readers.
I gave it 2 ⭐️
Read my full review below!
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Review: The Winding Way by Bricker P. Vale
A low stakes fantasy adventure that feels like it would be better suited for middle grade readers.
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August 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
⭐️ARC Review⭐️
Released July 29th
A low stakes fantasy adventure that feels like it would be better suited for middle grade readers.
I gave it 2 ⭐️
Read my full review below!
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Released July 29th
A low stakes fantasy adventure that feels like it would be better suited for middle grade readers.
I gave it 2 ⭐️
Read my full review below!
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⭐️ARC Review⭐️
Releases July 29th
A unique vampire power fantasy with cool ideas but a shaky execution.
I gave it 3 ⭐️
Read my full review below!
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Releases July 29th
A unique vampire power fantasy with cool ideas but a shaky execution.
I gave it 3 ⭐️
Read my full review below!
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Review: Blood Slaves by Markus Redmond
A unique vampire power fantasy with cool ideas but a shaky execution.
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July 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
⭐️ARC Review⭐️
Releases July 29th
A unique vampire power fantasy with cool ideas but a shaky execution.
I gave it 3 ⭐️
Read my full review below!
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Releases July 29th
A unique vampire power fantasy with cool ideas but a shaky execution.
I gave it 3 ⭐️
Read my full review below!
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⭐️ARC Review⭐️
Dungeons & Dragons: The Fallbacks: Dealing with Dragons
Releases July 29th.
A fine D&D novel with a memorable cast of characters let down by heavy internal conflicts that get in the way of the fun.
3 ⭐️ read my full review below!
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Fallbacks: Dealing with Dragons
Releases July 29th.
A fine D&D novel with a memorable cast of characters let down by heavy internal conflicts that get in the way of the fun.
3 ⭐️ read my full review below!
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Review: The Fallbacks: Dealing with Dragons by Jaleigh Johnson
A fine D&D novel with a memorable cast of characters let down by heavy internal conflicts that get in the way of the fun. And a lot fewer dragons than I had hoped.
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July 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
⭐️ARC Review⭐️
Dungeons & Dragons: The Fallbacks: Dealing with Dragons
Releases July 29th.
A fine D&D novel with a memorable cast of characters let down by heavy internal conflicts that get in the way of the fun.
3 ⭐️ read my full review below!
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Fallbacks: Dealing with Dragons
Releases July 29th.
A fine D&D novel with a memorable cast of characters let down by heavy internal conflicts that get in the way of the fun.
3 ⭐️ read my full review below!
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📚💙🪐 Book Review ⭐
Mercy: Tears of the Fallen by Chance Dillon.
A wholly confusing and lengthy novel that relies too heavily on violence against women to develop emotional stakes.
2 ⭐
Mercy: Tears of the Fallen by Chance Dillon.
A wholly confusing and lengthy novel that relies too heavily on violence against women to develop emotional stakes.
2 ⭐
Review: Mercy: Tears of the Fallen by Chance Dillon
An overly long novel that uses violence against women as a crutch too much
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July 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
📚💙🪐 Book Review ⭐
Mercy: Tears of the Fallen by Chance Dillon.
A wholly confusing and lengthy novel that relies too heavily on violence against women to develop emotional stakes.
2 ⭐
Mercy: Tears of the Fallen by Chance Dillon.
A wholly confusing and lengthy novel that relies too heavily on violence against women to develop emotional stakes.
2 ⭐
⭐Film Review⭐
Superman.
A decent Superman that takes a step in the right direction for DC, but struggles to take itself seriously in the tense moments.
3 ⭐
#superman #film #movies
Superman.
A decent Superman that takes a step in the right direction for DC, but struggles to take itself seriously in the tense moments.
3 ⭐
#superman #film #movies
Review: Superman
A decent Superman and a step in the right direction for DC
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July 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Saw Superman today. Gonna do a review but have some preliminary thoughts. I liked it and think that it's a good direction for DC, but I didn't overly love it, at least not as much as I liked Guardians.
July 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Saw Superman today. Gonna do a review but have some preliminary thoughts. I liked it and think that it's a good direction for DC, but I didn't overly love it, at least not as much as I liked Guardians.
⭐ARC Review⭐
Chapel of the Falcon and Other Stories by Matt Spencer
A well-written collection of horror stories that are both entertaining and thought provoking. Even though the stories contained can feel a little slow at times. For people who like horror with a strong voice.
4 ⭐ 🪐💙📚 #horror
Chapel of the Falcon and Other Stories by Matt Spencer
A well-written collection of horror stories that are both entertaining and thought provoking. Even though the stories contained can feel a little slow at times. For people who like horror with a strong voice.
4 ⭐ 🪐💙📚 #horror
Review: Chapel of the Falcon and Other Stories by Matt Spencer
A good collection of supernatural horror storeis
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July 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
⭐ARC Review⭐
Chapel of the Falcon and Other Stories by Matt Spencer
A well-written collection of horror stories that are both entertaining and thought provoking. Even though the stories contained can feel a little slow at times. For people who like horror with a strong voice.
4 ⭐ 🪐💙📚 #horror
Chapel of the Falcon and Other Stories by Matt Spencer
A well-written collection of horror stories that are both entertaining and thought provoking. Even though the stories contained can feel a little slow at times. For people who like horror with a strong voice.
4 ⭐ 🪐💙📚 #horror
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A distress call from an old world. A mission to save them. And it's already gone horribly wrong.
From Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social, comes #BeeSpeaker the third instalment of the #DogsOfWar science fiction series.
Audiobook out now: geni.us/BeeSporgsoc
From Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social, comes #BeeSpeaker the third instalment of the #DogsOfWar science fiction series.
Audiobook out now: geni.us/BeeSporgsoc
July 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
A distress call from an old world. A mission to save them. And it's already gone horribly wrong.
From Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social, comes #BeeSpeaker the third instalment of the #DogsOfWar science fiction series.
Audiobook out now: geni.us/BeeSporgsoc
From Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social, comes #BeeSpeaker the third instalment of the #DogsOfWar science fiction series.
Audiobook out now: geni.us/BeeSporgsoc
Reread some of my old work that I wrote during my degree and I kind of feel like I've slipped a little in my craft. Gonna try and focus more, do some more short stories and really redevelop myself.
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June 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Reread some of my old work that I wrote during my degree and I kind of feel like I've slipped a little in my craft. Gonna try and focus more, do some more short stories and really redevelop myself.
#writing
#writing
Bad news reader. I was unsuccessful. Better luck next time.
June 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Bad news reader. I was unsuccessful. Better luck next time.
Describe your favourite movie in the most misleading way possible.
A space man risks everything to deliver a tree.
A space man risks everything to deliver a tree.
June 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Describe your favourite movie in the most misleading way possible.
A space man risks everything to deliver a tree.
A space man risks everything to deliver a tree.
AI summaries at the top of Wikipedia articles is defeating the point of a Wikipedia article in the first place.
Wikipedia wanted to use AI summaries at the top of article pages. Editors said please please don't www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...
Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.
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June 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
AI summaries at the top of Wikipedia articles is defeating the point of a Wikipedia article in the first place.
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I say this a lot but we are all so lucky this generation of fascists came of age on message boards and not stabbing people to death at close range in a trench while the world detonates endlessly around them
Night of the long knives but literally there’s no plan and everyone is just stabbing each other wildly and the stabbing is quote-poasting
June 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I say this a lot but we are all so lucky this generation of fascists came of age on message boards and not stabbing people to death at close range in a trench while the world detonates endlessly around them
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Book news - out now are Bee Speaker (Dogs of War book 3) and also the US edition of Shroud.
June 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Book news - out now are Bee Speaker (Dogs of War book 3) and also the US edition of Shroud.
📚Review📚
The King of Everything. A cosmic horror by Jack Moody.
A really heavy and slow read that prefers waxing philosophical to action.
3 ⭐ full review below.
#horror #arc #cosmichorror 📚💙🪐
The King of Everything. A cosmic horror by Jack Moody.
A really heavy and slow read that prefers waxing philosophical to action.
3 ⭐ full review below.
#horror #arc #cosmichorror 📚💙🪐
Review: The King of Everything by Jack Moody
A meandering cosmic horror from Timber Ghost Press
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June 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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The King of Everything. A cosmic horror by Jack Moody.
A really heavy and slow read that prefers waxing philosophical to action.
3 ⭐ full review below.
#horror #arc #cosmichorror 📚💙🪐
The King of Everything. A cosmic horror by Jack Moody.
A really heavy and slow read that prefers waxing philosophical to action.
3 ⭐ full review below.
#horror #arc #cosmichorror 📚💙🪐
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The reason generative AI is so popular with wannabe creatives is best illustrated by something every pro writer has encountered: getting pitched an idea by someone saying "You write it and we'll split the profits!" because they think the idea is what has value, not the writing. The opposite is true.
June 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The reason generative AI is so popular with wannabe creatives is best illustrated by something every pro writer has encountered: getting pitched an idea by someone saying "You write it and we'll split the profits!" because they think the idea is what has value, not the writing. The opposite is true.
The absolute worst type of "advice" someone can give is, "you should have done it *this* way from the start".
Yeah, I should have, but I don't have a goddamn time machine so what you've said is functionally useless.
Yeah, I should have, but I don't have a goddamn time machine so what you've said is functionally useless.
June 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The absolute worst type of "advice" someone can give is, "you should have done it *this* way from the start".
Yeah, I should have, but I don't have a goddamn time machine so what you've said is functionally useless.
Yeah, I should have, but I don't have a goddamn time machine so what you've said is functionally useless.
Grifter still griftin'
Well that tracks
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June 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Grifter still griftin'
Oh my. I think Yarvin needs to watch a couple episodes of Mayday for some perspective on just how "intelligent, practical, and careful" some airline pilots actually are.
If I'm reading this correctly, then Yarvin wants the role of führer to be awarded via a Wings of Voice-style competition www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
June 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Oh my. I think Yarvin needs to watch a couple episodes of Mayday for some perspective on just how "intelligent, practical, and careful" some airline pilots actually are.
This was one of my top five books last year. Really enjoyed it. Well worth the read.
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#PrideBookFair
Hello my lovelies! 🌈
A lot of awesome and lovely people will share their works this month especially. Go and support them! (share, like, buy)
I write queer SFF stories with a strong romance side-plot. My debut "The Edge of a World" is a fantasy story about walking your own path.
Hello my lovelies! 🌈
A lot of awesome and lovely people will share their works this month especially. Go and support them! (share, like, buy)
I write queer SFF stories with a strong romance side-plot. My debut "The Edge of a World" is a fantasy story about walking your own path.
One wrong step and the monster in Otar's veins kills.
🛣️ scholarly roadtrip
♥️ third chance at love
⁉️ finding oneself
🪄 mystery
🌈 queer
Buy: jdrivers.itch.io/the-edge-of-...
books2read.com/u/mdwgNw
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📚 GR www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
📚 TSG app.thestorygraph.com/books/39b079...
🛣️ scholarly roadtrip
♥️ third chance at love
⁉️ finding oneself
🪄 mystery
🌈 queer
Buy: jdrivers.itch.io/the-edge-of-...
books2read.com/u/mdwgNw
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📚 GR www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
📚 TSG app.thestorygraph.com/books/39b079...
June 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This was one of my top five books last year. Really enjoyed it. Well worth the read.
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