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
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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This is fun book. Edith is a cleryman’s daughter in vaguely Victorian England. They’ve never known much about his childhood – he was sent off to boarding school very young, and never went home. So it’s a great suprise when a letter reaches them that his brother and his nephew have died, leaving him the
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I’ve faced the two sweaters that I dropped earlier this year because they had both pissed me off, in separate ways. The first was the Orbits sweater, the remains of which you see above. Unfortunately, there’s colorwork in the sleeves. And I knit sleeves with DPNs. And the tension on the floats was not good.
Elspeth is infected with magic, in a kingdom where that will get you killed. Sent off to live with her aunt and uncle, she’s kept away from court, but is drawn back in for the Equinox celebrations. The only official magic allowed are Providence Cards, created by the Shepherd King, who sought to protect the
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