Thank you to Yama for commissioning this episode!
So in these chapters, after getting the absolute worst news imaginable, our team is joined by an old flame, in more ways than one! Get it!? Because he's basically inhabited by a holy fire of goodness?
Also, there's a whole thing with Carmela starting to get into both Ronan and wizardry, and while Ronan is essentially on the table (albeit with some weird fine print), trying to horn in on the mission for wizardry is way out of her lane. I wonder though, will she turn out to have some power after all?
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Thank you so much to Bernadette for commissioning this episode!
So this is the one where we find out what Mr. 3's power is, and it turns out that I am just not capable of stretching my imagination enough to come up with even CLOSE to any of these ideas. He's able to build things with wax, trap things (and people) with wax, and attack with wax.
WAX.
Sure, why not.

Thank you to Patricia for commissioning this episode! Patricia I'm sorry that I credited Yama, I was looking at the wrong day!
In this chapter (and a bit) we get more details on what the absolute crisis is that we're dealing with here, and turns out that basically there is dark matter out there multiplying and warping space, warping time, warping people's perspectives and priorities, and warping wizardry itself.
Nita has to make a rather odd phone call to her counselor, and I have some questions about Nita's reservations about telling him what's happening.
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Thanks ever so much to George for commissioning this episode!
HURRAY! I'm finally able to continue on my journey through the Elder Empire, and we get to see how Calder's conversation with Jyrine winds up going now that he knows that she's part of a secret cult that worships the Elders. Not only that, but he asks some very important questions, and he does NOT like the answer he gets.

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Thank you so much to Bernadette for commissioning this episode!
In these episodes, we move into Little Garden Island, and I was puzzled at why it was called that when everything that lives there is VERY large. Then it occurred to me that if you're large, the garden will seem very small! So I guess what I'm saying is that it's all about perspective.
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Thank you ever so much to Yama for commissioning this episode!
Well this book is coming out swinging for the fences immediately, huh?
We start very nearly exactly where we left off in the last book, and turns out that there's a whole OTHER conversation that was happening between Tom and their dad in the last book! It had nothing to even do with the whole Sun thing at all!
And we're getting one of my most beloved/feared tropes of all time: "Wait, what about the authority figures who are better at this than us? What do you mean, they're dead/depowered/in hiding/etc???"
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Thank you to Joanna for commissioning this episode!
This is a pretty wild section as we get into some shit that we've never seen; first of all there's the introduction to the weird sand-based land that the "Saints" live in, and then there's a new member of the team! Isaak is here to take Nikolai's place (we hope temporarily) if his Majesty is still not back by the time their big summit is scheduled.
I can't wait to see where all of this weirdness is going!
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Thank you so much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode!
This is the final episode covering Raybearer, which makes me really sad. I loved this book, and the final section deserved a lot more time, but page counts can be a real bitch to figure out. I hope that I still manage to do a decent job!
I really encourage you, if you're reading this entry but haven't picked up this book, to get on it ASAP because what a joy this was to read!
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Thank you Max for commissioning this episode!
In this delightful installment of What We Do In The Shadows, our crew has been selected to host the Biannual Vampire Orgy! And in true loser fashion, they manage to screw it up and humiliate themselves in a spectacular way. Throughout, we've got the building resentment of Guillermo, and since the next episode is the Season 1 finale, I am dying to know where we're headed with that.
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Thank you to Patricia for commissioning this episode!
The final chapters here are kind of anti-climactic in some ways, if I'm honest. The whole sort-of confrontation with the sun is taken acre of off-page by Roshaun, and I'm still not particularly impressed with him. I find it kind of odd how that went, TBH. At least what's going on RE: Alaalu is more compelling, because the Lone One gets foiled by a dog, which is pretty rad. But overall this book felt a little more passive than some of the others have. I'm interested in seeing where we go next!
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