Tag: Graceling
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The Craft of Bookish First Lines
First lines are difficult no matter the genre, and although fantasy allows for a wider range of topics to start off the book, the variety of choices can make it harder to pick which one is best. I’ve taken some of the fantasy books off of my shelf, a mix of urban fantasy, YA fantasy,…
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Winterkeep: Publication Info and Personal Expectations
I cannot tell you how excited I was to learn that we were going to get another book in the Graceling Realm series. If you know anything about me from my blog, it’s probably that I absolutely adore this series. It’s been eight years since Bitterblue had been published, and with the way it ended,…
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Setting Study: The Dells from Fire
Although not a particularly rich world, The Dells from Kristin Cashore’s Fire (Graceling Realm #2) touches on many world-building elements that give it a realistic feel. The Dells, set apart from the Graceling Realm by nigh-impassable mountains, has its own unique magic system that comes simply in the form of its so-called monsters. The novel…
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May Reading Reflections
This post is again about Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood & Bone. Unlike last month’s post, there’s going to be quite a few spoilers. Proceed with caution. Have you ever read a book where two characters become friends or fall in love or whatever, and then things go wrong, and they’re surprised to find the…
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Four Trends I’ve Noticed in Certain Authors’ Novels
Here’s the thing about novel writing. It’s a massive underaking. If you don’t know that, you must be new. It can be easy to get overwhelmed, or to lose faith. The reason, I think, that most people give up in the end is that they don’t know what it is about novel writing that they…
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The Problem With Libraries
For as long as I’ve been writing, people have been telling me what reading strategies they think I should follow to make me a better writer. Well, it’s always fun when someone with little to no writing experience tries to tell you how to become a better writer, but the question they raised is still…
Katie Bachelder 