User blog comment:SpartHawg948/SpartHawg's Book Corner!!!/@comment-58609-20120102102143

Figured I might as well comment on this list as well in regards to overlap. Anyway:

-'The Oddysey': I'm familiar with the story, having grown up on Greek myths in my childhood, still maintaining the comic versions of the Iliad and the Oddysey, along with the abridged version of the myths. The actual original text however, which I briefly studied in secondary school...well, if there's one thing that holds it back for me, is that it's that Odysses is at best incompetent and at worst, a sociopath. That alone held my interest back.

-Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne - Quite a decent read, in that it had good characters, an appropriate ammount of world-building, and the overall plot was good.

-Dragon Age: The Calling: A giant step down from the first book IMO. Basically nothing more than 'quest format,' it had more forgettable characters, Maric goes from imperfect but likeable hero to incompetent ruler with an elf fetish and while the Architect is somewhat interesting, darkspawn aren't really the kind of race to convey moral ambiguity IMO. Still, I did enjoy the Fade sequence.

-Mass Effect: Retribution: Agree wholeheartedly. Not as good as 'Revelation' but better than 'Ascension' IMO in that it had a tight plot that didn't wander.