BASTION by Phil Tucker | Fantasy Book Review

Plot free synopsis, Colby, do you wanna handle this one?

Sure.

So Bastian is, um, a city in hell, and our main character, Scorio, is reborn into basically a giant monolith, uh, that immediately sends him into a gauntlet of trials, along with a set of three other people.

Um, he has to overcome this trial and then is reborn back into Bastian itself, and has to, uh, then figure out this new life that he has been given, which is actually re- being reborn.

So he's lived before, and, uh, is now back, but it turns out he's a little different from everyone else, which is, uh, you know, it's been several hundred years since he's been reborn, and only has been reborn like, what, five, six times or something like that.

Something like that.

Very low number, whereas everyone else is up into the dozens, if not nearly hundreds.

Mm-hmm.

So, um, something special about our boy Scorio, but you gotta read it to find out.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

This is a pro-

That's a good synopsis.

This is a progression fantasy, that's what it's technically called, right?

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Um, which I think is a very unique type of, or like sub-genre for fantasy, one that I had never read before, I don't think.

Have you ever read one before? You probably have read plenty.

I, yeah.

Yeah.

[laughs]

Progression fantasy has been my thing for a while now, so-

I don't think I've ever-

... including, like, reading them.

I couldn't pinpoint, but-