Konrad is the Malykant – the chief servant of the Malykt, god of death. He’s charged with bringing to justice murderers, for trying to take the Malykt’s job into their own hands. This book is made up of four distinct stories, which I really liked. They have an Eastern European flavor to the names, and
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This is the Heidi sweater, by Katya Frankel. I’m making it in Quince and Co Whimbrel, in what I think is the Bowsprit colorway. I got this yarn in a seconds sales, and I found out why while winding it. Skein number one had a cut in it, and skein number two was so tangled
This is a nice bridge story between Nevada and Catalina’s portions of the Hidden Legacy series. It’s wedding themed, which is actually delightful. Catalina ends up being engaged by Nevada’s future mother in law to find a family heirloom that was stolen just before the wedding. Catalina’s only eighteen at this point, but she steps
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This book starts out with Rogan’s ex coming to him for help after her husband goes missing – no one else seems to be concerned, but Nevada and Rogan agree to take the case. What follows ends up being way bigger than you could have imagined, and leads to a pretty satisfying conclusion to Nevada’s
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Got rid of a couple more sock yarns – this is the last of the Sundara Sock Water Studies and the Quince Finch in Bird’s Egg. (I really needed to be able to put a downward trend into my yarn tracking. I’ll be able to do some much bigger deductions once I push through a
This was an interesting set up – we have race of immortals that the ancient Egyptian gods ended up being based on. Kat is a more recent vintage, but her family includes some really ancient powers. She’s in retirement – having previously been an assassin for the Neheret Senate. Her power lies in ink, so
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I really appreciated the notes at the beginning of the book that went over the highlights of what to keep in mind if you’d read Red Sister a while in the past. And I particularly appreciated that the author specifically called out that Keot did not appear in the first book, because having Nona have
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Pattern: Cellarium by Rachel IllsleyYarn: Swans Island Ikat Collection Watercolors in the Indigo/Teal colorwayNeedles: Size 2 circs and 3 circs and DPNs The cables in this pattern kicked my butt at first, for no really good reason. Once I was able to visualize what they were supposed to do, I was fine, but I
Mona is a 14-year old baker, who happens to have a magic gift with bread. This is a story about how even what seems like small magic can save the world, and also that being a hero can really suck. (With a healthy dose of adults may not always be in the position to do
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Katharine Lundy is a middle child, and even worse, the child of her school’s principal. She’s always been good at following rules, so she quickly becomes invisible, since no one wants to risk friendship with the principal’s daughter. That’s when she first finds the door to the Goblin Market, where there are a few simple
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