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shsenhaji · 10 months

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📚 June and July Reading Round-Up 📚

Since I didn't post my June Reading Round-Up, here is both June and July together!

I didn't read much in June, but sort of made up for that in July.

In June, I read:

- Intrigues by Mercedes Lackey (enjoyable, good follow-up to the first book, very heart-wrenching in places, interested to see where the plot and the conflicts go from here, liked the characters, Mags my beloved, that ending!)

- Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey (very good, plot not quite what I expected going in, poor Vanyel!, really liked the thematic resonance of the ending, enjoyed how Vanyel's character and emotional growth was handled)

- The Keeper's Six by Kate Elliot (my first Kate Elliot book, good, couldn't really connect emotionally to the themes and the writing style, liked the messages and characters, loved the worldbuilding, was left with questions but a satisfying ending)

In July, I read:

- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (so good!!!! Loved the narration, the writing, Violet and her character growth, the relationships with the other characters, the romance, the worldbuilding, enjoyed how the author subverted tropes and wrote them in her own way, that ending!!! Very scared but excited for the next book)

- Poster Girl by Veronica Roth (read it in two consecutive sittings, enjoyed the worldbuilding and the themes, liked the ending, definitely a lot of interesting questions to think through, interesting perspective from the main character)

- Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (quick read, wasn't as immersed in the writing as with the previous books, some very iconic lines, heartfelt as ever, reunion didn't disappoint, emotional ending)

- A Restless Truth by Freya Marske (great and very enjoyable, gripping and compelling, got more emotionally invested as I read, loved the themes and characters and pacing, Maud and Violet my beloveds, loved seeing Alan and Hawthorn)

- Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop (re-read, didn't feel as groundbreaking as when I first read it, but I still enjoyed it a lot)

- Heir to the Shadows by Anne Bishop (read it in one sitting, loved the character growth and development, somewhat emotionally exhausting but well-paced)

#mine #books #reading round-up #intrigues #magic's pawn #mercedes lackey #the keeper's six #kate elliot #fourth wing #rebecca yarros #poster girl #veronica roth #murderbot #exit strategy #a restless truth #freya marske #anne bishop #the black jewels

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rhetoricandlogic · 1 year

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Review: The Keeper’s Six by Kate Elliott

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In The Keeper’s Six, Earth isn’t the only Realm. There are many Realms, and they are all magically connected by a dangerous between area known as the Beyond. A group of six magic users can form what’s known as a Hex to traverse the Beyond between Realms and facilitate trade between them. Each Realm also has facilities known as Keeps. These are locations that are partly in a Realm and partly in the Beyond, and they provide a place to cross between the two. Each Keep is powered and run by a magic user known as a Keeper.

Esther’s son, Daniel, is the Keeper of her Hex’s home Keep in Hawaii. He is married and has children with Kai, a dragon trapped in human form. One night, Esther receives a cryptic phone call from Daniel. When she travels to his Keep, she discovers Kai and the children in an enchanted sleep and Daniel has been kidnapped. A year ago Esther’s Hex had been suspended from travel through the Beyond, but she calls on them anyway. She needs help finding Daniel and bringing him home. If there’s one thing Daniel’s kidnappers didn’t plan for, it’s how much Esther can accomplish when she’s angry.

One of my favorite things about this story was the magic system. Not everyone can use magic, but those that can usually have a particular talent. For example, Esther is a Lantern. She can cast light and use it as a defensive shield when necessary. Each member of a Hex has a special magical talent, and using them all together is what makes traversing the Beyond possible.

Another part of the magic system I found intriguing was the idea that a certain number of things is important. The number six seemed to be particularly important. Hex means six, and each Hex has six members. Six Keeps in a hexagonal configuration creates a stable environment within the Beyond where people can live and trade. It was a very interesting idea.

I also liked the take on parallel universes being connected magically. Unlike in a sci-fi world where universes use technology to travel, everything in the Realms and the Beyond is magical. Specifically, it seems to be controlled with dragon magic – which is important to the story. Dragons control the Concilium which is a kind of governing body that dictates trade laws in the Realms. The Concilium also assigns rankings to Realms depending on how aware the citizenry is of magic. Earth is a fourth rank Realm because the populace at large doesn’t know about magic, Realms, or the Beyond.

While I really enjoyed the setting, the world, and the characters, I do feel most of the characters could have used more development. The entire story is told in 3rd person from Esther’s perspective, so we don’t really learn more than surface-level facts about the other members of the Hex, Daniel, or Kai. Honestly, out of all the characters, I would have loved to learn more about Kai’s past. Also, there’s a character included in most of the story that just leaves about 75% through it. The entire side story about him and where he came from just felt out of place if it wasn’t going to be explored more thoroughly.

I feel some of this is what contributed to the slight pacing issues the story had. Most of the book seemed to drag by with Esther and her Hex moving from one place to another following clues. Then, everything was resolved so quickly within the last 15% of the book. That being said, the mystery and how everything ended up being tied together was very well done. I suspected some of it, but the rest was a complete surprise, which is always nice in a story as long as it’s realistic for the world.

#Kate Elliot #The Keeper's Six #mahreviews #long post

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floweroflaurelin · 18 days

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Opal, Twice-Crowned Champion of Lolth 🕷️🕸️🕷️

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(Billie Eilish’s “you should see me in a crown” playing in the distance)

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brainrockets · 1 year

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Read The Keeper's Six by Kate Elliott yesterday and damn it was excellent.

An older adventurer has to get their crew back together to save their son from a dragon lord guy.

Features:

Jewish grandmother is the main character

Son is queer

Sows chaos and organizing principles wherever they go

Baking

Dragons

Adventure

Poets

#kate elliott #the Keeper's six #books #reads like a dnd adventure #stuff i say

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ourthoughtspreciselyextra · 1 year

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The Keeper's Six by Kate Elliott

Title: The Keepers Six

Series: n/a Author: Kate Elliott Source/Format: NetGalley; eARC More Details: Fantasy Publisher/Publication Date: Tor.com; January 17, 2023

Synopsis...

It’s been a year since Esther set foot in the Beyond, the alien landscape stretching between worlds, crossing boundaries of space and time. She and her magical travelling party, her Hex, haven’t spoken since the Concilium banned them from the Beyond. But when she wakes in the middle of the night to her son’s cry for help, the members of her Hex are the only ones she can trust to help her bring him back from wherever he has been taken. Esther will have to risk everything to find him. Undercover and hidden from the Concilium, she and her Hex will be tested by dragon lords, a darkness so dense it can suffocate, and the bones of an old crime come back to haunt her.

My thoughts:

I was intrigued by the summary for The Keeper’s Six by Kate Elliott, particularly Esther Greene’s quest to save her abducted son. Overall, I liked the story. The writing had a certain flow to it, which made reading the novella easy. The story just wasn’t what I thought it was going to be.

The Keeper’s Six had a great start though. I liked that the story featured a Hex—essentially a motley crew—who had gone their separate ways, and were reunited. And the opening chapters had all the tension I expected as the scenario unfolded. Esther’s anxious inner-monologue and attempts to view the situation in an analytical light—to find as many clues as possible—were fantastic. However, an early reveal sort of removed some of that nail-biting tension from the narrative. And the story took a turn that I was, ultimately, lukewarm toward in the end.

The world building and setting were by far one of my favorite aspects about The Keeper’s Six. It was complicated, and it had all the hallmarks of a sprawling portal fantasy world. The particular rules about the Beyond provided a rigid structure the characters were knowledgeable about and followed to the best of their ability, while also supplying enough environmental obstacles and some not-so-friendly dangers to fulfil the promise of action made by the summary. It was the kind of setting I want to linger with, to catch all the details it had to offer. It was so fascinating, and by the end I wanted more time with it, since the story was bursting with references to prior incidents that had occurred there.

Overall, I liked the Keeper’s Six.

Disclaimer: this copy of the book was provided by the publisher (Tor.com) via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review, thank you!

**This review was first posted on Our Thoughts Precisely**

#The Keeper's Six #book review #Book blog #netgalley #ARC Review

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weaponizedducks · 3 months

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you know what i think kids/teen books do 'fantasy romance/fantasy books' way better than any of the adult fantasy books booktok raves about. i try and read some of them and 90 percent of the time its just smut and abusive relationships disguised as 'dark romance'. then i read books like Keeper Of The Lost Cities, The School for Good and Evil, Percy Jackson, Land of Stories, the Nevermoor series, that kind of thing, and they are all actually so amazing because they have fleshed out characters with flaws and an engaging plotline instead of just badly written romance. and when they do have romance it's well written and about the people rather than the tropes.

#anti booktok #six of crows is the only booktok book i have loved #this is not me being anti- smut #it's just when it's the only thing driving the plot it's bad #it should not be used as a plot device #anything by taylor jenkins reid i don't mean you you are beautiful #keeper of the lost cities #the school for good and evil #nevermoor #the land of stories #percy jackson #six of crows #anti sjm #anti coho #booktok #you know what i'm talking about #blue analyses things

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apollosbisexualass · 1 year

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Just thinking how much it would suck for Lucretia when she was making the Bureau of Balance all static, if the Void Fish decided that that shit was cool and that everyone ought to know about it and just broad casted it all across the universe

#like she was rolling dice with that one #lucretia taz #the lonely journal keeper #bureau of balance #the void fish #moon base #taz balance #taz taako #taz magnus #taz merle #taako taaco #magnus burnsides #merle highchurch #the six songbirds taz #the adventure zone

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frizzle-mcshizzle · 3 months

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we are still sleeping on the Biana Alvar dynamic you can't convince me they where not super close when Biana was little

its been six months so it was time to draw little Alvar and Biana again, last two are under the cut along with tag lists

(left July 2023, right February 2023)

@stopstealingtomatoes @kale-of-the-forbidden-cities @crymeariveronceagain @winterfireice @the-one-and-only-aroace @honey-the-dinosaur-ate-our-kid @art-isnt-arting @nyxpixels @youjustfeelthemforever @choasuqeen

#honestly i realize people normally do yearly redraws #but i think it's easier to track your progress with a redraw every six months #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #biana vacker fanart #alvar vacker #kotlc alvar #kotlc biana #kotlc fanart #fanart #artists on tumblr #my art #frizzle’s scribbles

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nerdy-girlramblings · 2 months

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I'm sure that I'm not the first person to say this, but I really wouldn't mind a season of a show or a book in a series that is just characters living their lives. There isn't any world-shattering problem that the characters need to solve, no villain to fight, etc.

I think the best way to do this would be a sitcom or a book of short stories. Sitcom's are already insanely popular and it's usually just ordinary people dealing with everyday normal problems. Die-hard fans of book series with read any content related to their favorite characters. Also, imagine the character development! If characters are used to being in danger constantly, how will they handle ordinary life? How would it impact their relationships with the other characters?

So much potential!

#nerdygirlramblings #tagging a bunch of fandoms I wish this was done with #the umbrella academy #shadow and bone #six of crows #grishaverse #shades of magic #stranger things #the lunar chronicles #keeper of the lost cities #once upon a time #the gilded wolves #bookish #fandom

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theborzoiarebackintown · 3 months

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My niece’s birthday party theme was cats so we all had to wear cat ears. Even Georgia.

#dogblr #petblr #dog #australian shepherd #aussie #Georgia #I somehow ended up wearing six pairs?#my nephew decided I was the keeper of ears and just kept giving them to me #idk don’t ask me to understand children

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creapysummer · 9 months

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send help i've just had the idea to make an entire powerpoint presentation on every single thing i've ever hyperfixated on complete with essays and graphs this is fucking happening

#hyperfixiating #hyperfixation #heres the list going from recent to first bc idk what else to tag this with #good omens #helluva boss #dead poets society #shadow and bone netflix #ride the cyclone #the umbrella academy #six of crows #maze runner #marauders #magnus chase and the gods of asgard #hamilton #percy jackson #keeper of the lost cities

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stars-and-birds · 9 months

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shoutout to that one genre of character that’s like. sad inventor he/they boy with daddy issues. you know the one.

#dex doesn’t really have daddy issues but im tagging him nonetheless #dex dizznee #varian tangled #leo valdez #wylan van eck #esme babbles #kotlc #tangled the series #soc #six of crows #keeper of the lost cities #heroes of olympus #pjo

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def-not-kaz-brekker · 8 months

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Ok ok if the character cast consists of:

Dark haired guy with an object as defense mechanism and hides emotions but is insanely in love with significant other who is practically the embodiment of an angel but could also murder people and Dark Haired Guy would be giving their SO heart eyes while they’re murdering people (kaz brekker, nico di Angelo/percy Jackson, kinda fitz vacker)

Significant other (or Murder Puppy) who is really sweet and caring and in love with Dark Haired Guy but could also murder DHG but won’t because they have more morals than DHG and everyone loves them and fans need to learn to recognize the fact that Murder Puppy is also their own person and not just DHG’s SO (inej ghafa, will solace/annabeth chase, Sophie foster)

BFF of DHG’s MP. Usually a confident queer person who drives to look hot but doesn’t need to because already hot and their own partner has died and this impacted them profoundly but now they’re stronger than ever (Nina zenik, piper mclean, biana vacker)

Partner who died who was a goody two shoes who got corrupted. Usually blond haired and tall, grew up in strict environment. Everyone misses them and had a weird relationship with DGH (Matthias Helvar, Jason grace)

Chaotic Bisexual. Can kill you, and will roast their way into hell. Super flirty but will physically short circuit when their partner (Shy [Murderous] Cinnamon Roll) flirts back. Humor as coping mechanism and mother died when they were young. Awkward relationship with father. (Jesper fahey, Leo Valdez)

Shy (Murderous) Cinnamon Roll. Cute little baby uwu until you realize they’re insane. They will murder you. But also really innocent and will not understand CB’s sexual references unless explained to them. Usually red headed guy. (Wylan Van eck, sorta frank zhang and hazel levesque, Dex dizznee)

Blonde Sarcasm Guy. Playful and flirty, probably bisexual, actually really smart. Underestimated by everyone, and tbh kinda similar to DHG. Everyone loves him but gets really freaked out when he starts murdering people. (Nikolai Lantsov, Keefe sencen)

Then it’s a good book.

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unclenappie · 2 months

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I love romance but there's just something about platonic soulmates that makes me so happy.

Found family is truly the best trope.

#found family #the crows #six of crows #the raven boys #the raven cycle #heroes of olympus #the seven #the prison healer #keeper of the lost cities #the shadowhunter chronicles

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best-childhood-book · 3 months

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Round 1 Results

Poll 1: The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Poll 2: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

Poll 3: Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

Poll 4: Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson

Poll 5: Ever by Gail Carson Levine

Poll 6: American Girl by Various Authors

Poll 7: Alex Rider by Anthony Horowitz

Poll 8: A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Poll 9: Little House by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Poll 10: The Immortals Quartet by Tamora Pierce

Poll 11: Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol

Poll 12: The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon

Poll 13: Ever After High by Shannon Hale

Poll 14: Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

Poll 15: Septimus Heap by Angie Sage

Poll 16: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

The next round will be posted on Friday at 12 pm EST!

(We're not gonna talk about how these polls ended two weeks ago)

#best childhood book #results #the hobbit #mrs frisby and the rats of nimh #nevermoor #kingdom keepers #ever #american girl #alex rider #a little princess #little house #the immortals quartet #encyclopedia brown #the hardy boys #ever after high #leviathan #septimus heap #six of crows

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weaponizedducks · 2 months

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yes. go on you traumatised queer coded child. end the family bloodline

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