All in Charisma

really really good story, one of the funniest yet serious books I have read in a long long time. the spoof on roleplaying and paper, pencil + dice and mmorpgs and single-player hack an slash is really well done. the Charisma Socialite Class is well thought out. seeing "Justin" go from a basement troll to a guy growing up into somebody who starts thinking about others is fun and inspiring to watch. like myself Mr. West has a grasp of what it means to be a young unpopular fellow hiding from the world because of the pain it can inflict. I think a good woman picked him and he was lucky to understand what he had and held onto it. I think the adventure in Papers and Paychecks with his own children reminds him that us nerds often need help learning about was to deal with the world and our emotions that our individual parents aren't equipped to teach us. I would not classify his work YA Fiction as it is decidedly more sophisticated, subtle and well adult in the way he spun his tail it could be

Kyle West/wastelands