What are you reading right now? (possible RotE spoilers)

[Albertosaurus Rex]

I [...] now can't stand books in which [...] people constantly win battles against overwhelming odds

You're right, this should only work when the odds are a million to one.

Oh man, that brings back memories of all those Magic: the Gathering tie-in novels I read in my teens. The early ones weren't so bad, but later novels in the franchise... hoo boy!

Anyway, I finished The Dragon Revenant earlier this week. I did enjoy it, but I do have a number of issues with the series. The first is that, apart from the reincarnation angle, the worldbuilding doesn't seem very special. Yes, I know the first quartet was witten in the eighties, but still, it doesn't bring anything new to the table. The second is that the villains are almost cartoonishly evil. Would people really call themselves stuff like "The Dark Brotherhood"?

I'm now reading The Traveller by John Twelve Hawks. Maybe it's because I read that book so recently, but I think I see some parallels with That Hideous Strength. Both feature an innocuous looking scientific institute which acts as a front for a shadowy organization that wants to control the world, guided by powers from beyond this world. Anyway, it's not bad but it is somewhat amateurishly written.