Posted December 11, 2015 in Let's Discuss, Reading / 2 Comments
I have been “reading” this book for about a month. By “reading,” I mean more like “avoiding reading.”
Do you know what book it is? It is one of my all-time favorite books: Blackveil by Kristen Britain! I should want to read this book. I should want to finish it. I shouldn’t want to set it down and walk away without looking back.
So WHY don’t I want to read this book?
I’m thinking the real reason I don’t want to finish this book isn’t that I don’t like it. Seriously, I LOVE it. The real reason is most likely that I don’t want it to end.
You see, way back in September I told you all that I was going to reread this series. While I LOVE this series, my least favorite book comes after Blackveil and that is Mirror Sight. I could say a lot about how much I don’t exactly like Mirror Sight and how it doesn’t seem to fit as great with the series but here isn’t the place.
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Posted December 10, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The High King's Tomb by
Kristen Britain Series: Green Rider #3 Publisher: Daw (2007)
Paperback (643 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: Green Rider,
First Rider's Call,
Blackveil Also in this series: Green Rider,
First Rider's Call,
Blackveil Reading Challenges: 2015 Re-Reading,
Read 2015 Synopsis
More than a thousand years ago the armies of the Arcosian Empire, led by Mornhavon the Black, crossed the great sea and tried to conquer the land of Sacoridia using terrible dark magic. Eventually Mornhavon had been captured, and his evil spirit imprisoned in Blackveil Forest, protected by the mighty D’Yer Wall; and in the centuries since the war’s end, knowledge of the working of magic had disappeared from Sacoridia.
Karigan G’ladheon was now a seasoned Green Rider—a member of the magical messenger corps of the king. But during her first year as a Rider, a rogue magician had cracked the D’Yer Wall. The spirit of Mornhavon, sensing the weakness, had begun to wake, seeking vengeance. Karigan had managed to transport the spirit of Mornhavon into the future, buying valuable time for her king and country. But how far in the future was Mornhavon now? There was no way to tell.
And though Karigan and her fellow Riders scoured the land searching for lost magical knowledge, they were unaware of a threat to their kingdom that lay far closer: the descendants of ancient enemies had spent generations honing their powers of dark magic—a force against which the Sacoridians had no defense. The High King’s Tomb is the thrilling third installment of the Green Rider series.
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Posted December 4, 2015 in Reading / 16 Comments
This is the fourth book in Kristen Britain’s Green Rider series. The quote I have chosen is from page 256 which is only about 40% of the way into the book.
From Blackveil by Kristen Birtain (page 256):
“Zachary,” she said. “It is so cold out here. You’ll catch a chill!”
“Oh, I don’t think so. The air is bracing.”
“Even so, you are missed, and there is something you should see.”
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Posted December 3, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
First Rider's Call by
Kristen Britain Series: Green Rider #2 Publisher: Daw (2003)
Paperback (596 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: Green Rider,
The High King's Tomb,
Blackveil Also in this series: Green Rider,
The High King's Tomb,
Blackveil Reading Challenges: 2015 Re-Reading,
Read 2015 Synopsis
Karigan G’ladheon had been a Green Rider, one of the king of Sacoridia’s elite magical messengers. In the messenger service she had been caught up in a world of deadly danger, and though she had defeated the Eletian who cracked the magical D’Yer Wall—which had protected Sacoridia for a thousand years from the dark influence of Blackveil Forest, and Mornhavon the Black’s evil spirit imprisoned within it—she had nonetheless been tainted by his wild magic.Exhausted in body and spirit, Karigan had returned to her home in Corsa. But Karigan’s determination was no match for the Rider’s call. Ghostly hoofbeats echoed in the deep regions of her mind, and she returned to the court to find the Green Riders weakened and diminished. Rider magic was becoming unreliable, and she herself was having ghostly visions of Lil Ambriodhe, First Rider, and founder of the Green Rider corps. But why was she appearing to Karigan? And would Karigan be able to seek the help of a woman who had been dead for a thousand years?
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Posted November 30, 2015 in Reading / 8 Comments
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