Tag: the witch of lurago

So that’s how our cycle ends. Someday soon, your world will end. Ending is not as final as it sounds. Our world has ended before. Nigel Willoughby Nigel warned us the end is coming. Cycles always end. When and how don’t matter much. Because new cycles begin. But we’ve heard...

Have you read Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs? Bethan is peculiar. She and her peculiarity play an increasingly pivotal role in the story. Emotionally damaged by a mindgifted sensitivity to her narcissistic addict mother’s thoughts, Bethan is not handling her peculiarity very well right now....

Grief is one of the rawest emotions in the spectrum of the human experience. We’re made of substance, and time erodes substance, so loss is inevitable. Everyone who has ever lived has lost someone or something they held dear. We gather mementos, build shrines, and sort our pain into...

Esfir is onto something. Place names and languages of the Rootstock Saga world echo those of past cycles. You’d already noted as much. The maps of Innis and Tallu from the first two books have familiar coastlines. Surnames, given names, and place names aren’t so different from those you’ve...

The winnowing begins, yet no death is gratuitous. Each departure serves a purpose in the narrative. Raise a toast to the ones we lost in this book. Some we mourn. Some we will miss. Some we are glad to see go. Brynmohr o’Berwyn. King Brynmohr of the Firstborn. Your...

Reincarnation requires the continuity of a soul. Remove religion from the debate for a moment and just wonder… what do we call the unique sense of self that makes us sentient? Soul, spirit, or essence. It’s the intangible energy sigil that makes you… you. For the sake of objectivity,...

Do you remember Masaki? He was first mentioned in Chapter 27 of Path of the Spirit Runner. Dara was sleeping. Dreaming. Before he woke and coaxed Madelyn off the balcony rail… Dara drifted, following his hindsight wherever it led. Most nights, he used it to escape when thoughts of...

Bless his heart. Redan just can’t catch a break. His good intentions seem to meet with such sorry luck it makes him all the more endearing. Quick, give me a list of compelling male characters in epic fantasy who are not macho warrior badasses. Takes a minute, doesn’t it?...

Impromptu N’si appearances are apparently a theme, now. Who is this latest mischief-maker and what’s her game? Gaia. Jane. One and the same. She’s been the nameless N’si any time a nameless N’si popped up in the narrative. Gaia and Nigel go way back, and not in a good...