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  • Queen of the Tearling: Part 1

    This review was originally written and posted in January 2016. This book only has fourteen chapters, and they are all ridiculously long. So, uh, we’ll have to see how this goes but I don’t think we’ll be doing one chapter per post this time. We start with our heroine, Kelsea, sitting in a tree as…

  • Red Queen: Ch 28 – Epilogue

    Guys, I’m not gonna lie.  The rest of this book?  Pretty fucking pointless. They fight and the book doesn’t understand how fire or literally anything works.  They escape, because that’s what happens when you decide to ‘execute’ people by giving them weapons and letting them fight back.  Farley is alive, and Kilorn, because if they…

  • Red Queen: Ch 27

    We next check in with Mare and Cal, stuck in cells beneath some big murder arena named Bowl of Bones. Apparently the cells here are made of some material that suppress powers. I didn’t think my opinion of the Scarlett Guard could get much lower, but it just did. There is a literal, physical substance…

  • Red Queen: Ch 26

    Arven follows us, making sure we can’t escape. So, it just occurred to me, but shouldn’t Maven be pretty easy to keep contained? He and Cal wear little sparky bracelets to make their initial fire, because as we learned earlier no Silver is able to create, only manipulate what’s already there. Take away his sparky…

  • Red Queen: Ch 25

    Apparently Maven and Mare got back to their seats in time, because next chapter opens with Mare morosely staring out the window on the drive home. I wish the dawn would begin tonight instead of tomorrow morning. Huh? my eyes still on the barracks. Will they be ours tomorrow? Wait…huh? Are…are you trying to tell…