The first book in this duology ends in a major cliffhanger, where it appears that Elspeth is dead – taken over by the Nightmare. In this story, we quickly find out that she is not gone, and we also learn far more about the Nightmare, who is actually the Shepherd King. Rayvn Yew and his […]
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Miyara may have left the royal family behind, but they’re not done with her. All of her royal sisters show up in town, and it’ll be up to all of them to work together to save the world. This was a very satisfying end to the trilogy. I realized one of the things I really
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I’ve very behind with posting – weekends have been full of the kind of life stuff I don’t tend to document here. But the garden has marched on. We had a killing frost overnight on the 17th – the results are above. We’d actually had a lighter frost a few days before that that everything
Saturday was a glorious day, other than the insane wind. (I was bracing myself to take this picture.) The sky was perfectly blue, and there was lovely foliage along the road. Just a great fall day.
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Checked off a bucket list item this week. It’s been a very active solar flare year, and there was a flare on Thursday that managed to cut through the light pollution so that we could actually see the aurora from our back deck. (These shots both use the nighttime feature on my pixel’s camera, but
If I’m being brutally honest – this book is a filler story. But it’s a filler story between some fairly important action in the last book (in which one mentor of the main characters betrays the school they attend, and therefore causes the death/probable death of two other mentors), and the last book in the
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For the moment, the garden is still fully alive. The last dahlia has finally bloomed, and everything looks pretty happy, although the deck garden is looking a little sparse with the tomato gone. This will likely change starting tomorrow – regular October weather, ie daily temps topping out maybe near 60, and the possibility of
The first thing I need to note about this book is that my mother and I ended up reading it at the same time. Keep in mind, I got this as a Kindle deal, so it’s been around long enough to merit the discount. (And I even bought it last December.) My mother had gone
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