Sybil Mira, Queen Levana's head thaumaturge, noticed Cress's hacking ability and gave her special treatment. However, instead of coming to get him, it is assumed that they called the authorities, and Julian was taken away, never to be seen again. Eventually, she helped another shell named Julian contact his parents. Cress was therefore taken, but she was not killed-instead, she lived with other shells until she found that she was good at hacking. Her father wanted to run away and bring her to Earth, but her mother was so devoted to the queen that she wanted nothing to do with Cress. Due to shell infanticide laws enacted by Queen Channary, she was taken away from her family in order to be killed when really their blood was used to make the letumosis antidote. to Sage Darnel and her unnamed mother as a shell, a Lunar incapable of bioelectrical manipulation.
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The Churchill Documents, Volume 18 : One Continent Redeemed, January August 1943 by Martin Gilbert. His impressive body of work includes Churchill: A. Document Volumes: Volumes 6 through 17 (12 volumes). At bottom is a black square bookplate, with white text: "From the Library of Sir Winston Churchill." Above, is a second black and white bookplate. Sir Martin Gilbert, the distinguished official biographer of Churchill, is a fellow at Merton College, Oxford. Two personal bookplates are pasted on the front paste down. Churchill with kind regards from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, November 25, 1909, for Nov 30." In his distinctive hand, Churchill has added on the front pastedown: "This was the first copy printed WSC." The front flyleaf reads, in Blunt’s hand, "Winston S. A first edition, first printing, published in 1909, this book was gifted by the author, Blunt, to Winston Churchill. Presented is Winston Churchill’s copy of India Under Ripon: A Private Diary by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Blue boards with cream cloth spines, black embossed titles on spine and front cover, and ¼ leather slipcase. Churchill’s private copy, with respective bookplates. With dated inscription from author to Winston Churchill. First edition, first printing, first copy printed. Coming from a formidable family of magic-wielders he has been trained well for his Judgement, hoping to escape the towers tests and achieve his attunement. In the first person perspective, we join the action as Corin Cadence, the 17-year-old son of a noble house enters the death trap tower. There are no retries or extra lives here, death is final therefore many wide-eyed, budding scholars never leave the tower. These areas were reminiscent of a The Legend of Zelda or a Skyrim dungeon and although the willing participants are only young and often inexperienced, the dangers are as real as the consequences are. This entails entering a Spire, progressing through certain puzzle-focused, trap-ridden, and monster-haunted rooms. Before potential students can even step foot within this sort-of Mage's college they have to pass a Judgement. In similar fashion to books such as The Magician's Guild, The Name of the Wind, and A Wizard of Earthsea - a large percentage of the narrative takes places within a mysterious educational establishment where professors teach their students magic. It sits nicely within the LitRPG subgenre of Fantasy and it gripped me from the very start. It was promoted to the finalist stage by Bookworm Blues and is the first novel in the Arcane Ascension series. I read Sufficiently Advanced Magic for the Self Published Fantasy Blog Off. |