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Forest Mage — Robin Hobb
Shadow of the Fox — Julie Kagawa
The Little Mermaid — Hans Christian Anderson
I decided i’d read this just to get my mermaid thing going before reading The Mermaid by Christina Henry.
I have to say, i’m very disappointed.
Silly little girl falls in love with handsome prince who she can’t have because she’s just not good enough and he loves another, blah, blah, blah. So she has to die, like dead forever, because mermaids don’t have immortal souls like human beings do because they’re obviously just animals and Anderson obviously believes that animals don’t have souls and probably agrees with Descartes that you can even nail them to doors and dissect them without anaesthetic because they’re just soulless things unworthy of our consideration.
But wait, Hans gives this disgusting, soulless animal a chance, she can have legs to go on land and woo the handsome prince but she has to lose her voice by having her tongue cut out and suffer the pain of walking on knives for her whole life to do so. So desperate is this soulless creature that she agrees to this obscene torture. If she gets the prince to own her through marriage thus becoming a responsible pet owner for this soulless animal then god will bestow a soul upon this creature and it can live happily ever after as the sex slave of the prince. Otherwise she’s just going to be a bit of nothing floating on the wind for all eternity.
And then we’re told that if children are good then the little mermaid may still get a soul and go to heaven but if children are bad then she won’t. So if you you’re ever a naughty child, even for a moment, then you’re obviously a fucking evil little shit who hates mermaids. WTF!!! But mermaids are soulless animals who don’t get to go to heaven so its a bit confused as to whether a child should be worried about being good when its not actually the child’s fault in the first place that mermaids are soulless animals who god obviously hates and doesn’t want in heaven anyway.
Children should not have a sense of right and wrong built upon fairy tales, imaginary beings and/or other such nonsense. Because what do you think is going to happen when the child finds out that everything it believed you told it was true is a complete lie that you conjured up in order to hoodwink and con the child into behaving to your unreasonable demands?
I seriously would not read this to any child i had in my care. It’s disgusting, backward, patriarchal, god-grovelling drivel. Some books really should be burned and/or deleted.
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1500 Eternal Masterpieces Of Fairy Tales — Anthology
A wonderful collection. You never know when you might feel the need to read a fairy tale.
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The Queen of Stilled Hearts — DeAnna Knippling
Character Interview: Azriel — Joseph R. Lallo
A little extra to add on for your “Book of Deacon” experience. Free to read online after you’ve read all the books because it has a few spoilers.
So that will make this the 16th book in The Book of Deacon series.
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The Stump and the Spire — Joseph R. Lallo
The 15th book in The Book of Deacon series.
A little stand alone short thrown in at the end, set long after the events of Miranda and Myn’s battle in Kenvard.
It’s a nice little read included at the end of The Book of Deacon Anthology.
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Jade — Joseph R. Lallo
The following review was written when this was the last book in the main story line of The Book of Deacon series, since then Halfax has been added.
I really don’t know what to make of this book.
Mostly it’s written in what feels like a children’s story style, but at the same time it is part of the main story line being set many years after the last events we read about in The Crescents.
In this book we are told that the Chosen have only left 3 surviving family lines, that of Trigorah, Celeste and Myn. But the thing is, if you remember, Myn took Trigorah’s place as a Chosen, thus we should have had at least another 3 or 4 family lines, but there’s no mentioned as to what became of them: that of Ether, that of Ivy, that of Lain and possibly that of the original knight that Miranda found.
So we are left with the question, what happened to Ivy and Lain’s lines over in The Crescents? Totally wiped out apparently. Ether, totally wiped out??? The original knight’s family, totally wiped out. But we are given no explanation of how, only that Epidime may have had something to do with it.
And that Halfax is the last surviving dragon — which he must be because he’s never had offspring of his own, which one would think he and the other dragons of Myn’s line would have if, as he claims, the dragons cared so much about protecting the Chosen family lines. So what happened to all the dragons, why’s there only one left?
This book, which i thought would have been tying up the loose ends and living happily ever after, has taken us back to the very beginning of not having all the Chosen ready and the D’Karon beginning to gain a power base, but with no explanation of how we got back here.
So i’m a bit confused, to say the least.
But, i’ll be the eternal optimist and surmise that Joseph has a ton more books for this series planned to deal with everything that’s suddenly gone missing, answer all the questions now being asked, and then tie up the story nicely, destroy the D’Karon completely, and have everyone live happily ever after — just coz that’d be nice. 
We shall see.
This book can also be found in The Book of Deacon Anthology.
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The Crescents — Joseph R. Lallo
Ooooh, just look at that cover!!! Along with beautiful women in steampunk outfits — our favourite 
— the Kindle Worm Quality Control team did a quick survey of all the staff at morning tea break and everyone at Kindle Worm HQ agrees that a good dragon picture on the cover is always a good indicator of a really good book — apart from one who doesn’t like dragons so she was promptly given her final written warning for contravening article 16:a:ii of her contract: “Though shalt not be a curmudgeon in the work place”.
But does the story come up to the standard set by the cover? I certainly think so. As fantasy goes, this one’s got most of it: Cheftains, Priestesses, Wizards, Kings, Elves, Fairies, Malthropes, Dwarves, Humans, Dragons, Golems and, in a class of her own, Ether.
The Chosen are asked by the Elven King of South Crescent to visit and sort out a few problems for him and in doing so get him some popularity back amongst his people. In return he offers the Chosen a cure for the blight that the D’Karon spells left upon the land. And so, offered the chance to heal the land, the Chosen jump aboard a ship, along with Garr and Gustrim, and sail off to The Crescents for a wonderful adventure.
It’s a great piece of story telling, and, i think, is definitely one of the better books in this series.
The Story of Sorrel is quite important to have read before starting this as it gives a ton of background to this story.
Anyway, a great read from a great series.
At the time of writing this, this is the 13th book in The Book of Deacon series.