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Book Review: Assassin’s Quest by Robin Hobb
When it comes to the Skill, the more you use it the more it pulls you in. The same can be said for reading anything by Robin Hobb.
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Book Review: Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
What truly carries you through Royal Assassin is Robin Hobb’s writing and how real the people of Buckkeep feel. They are each as fallible as the next and the decisions they make pay hefty consequences.
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Book Review: Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Assassin’s Apprentice is the first book in the trilogy and begins with Fitz being handed off to Verity’s household at 6 years old. Under the care of the stable hand Burrich, Fitz travels to Buckkeep, the seat of the Farseer family.
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Form, lace, embellishment and you
This album is about you. celebrating all that it means to be a woman. Taking the traditional female form and using it to become our best selves. We know that there is power in being a woman. We want to let the world know we’re a force to be reckoned with.
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This is no fairytale: Family, Duty, Honor and a heart torn in three
Jon Snow’s story is not a hero’s tale where he slays the beast and wins the kingdom. It is a human tale about a boy wrestling with indecision and trying to find his family, keep his honor, and do his duty in a brutal world.
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Introducing Solids – How do we eat again?
A handy guide to remembering when to introduce various foods when weaning your baby. Because eating is more complicated than it should be.
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Science Behind the Magic: Valyrian Steel
I continue to explain magic in a fantasy series because apparently I can’t enjoy anything. GRRM might want to be sparse on details but I love knowing how things work.
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Science Behind the Magic: The Others’ Ice Swords from ASoIaF
A somewhat pseudo-scientific explanation behind how the Other’s ice swords work in A Song of Ice and Fire. Because magic is overrated.
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State of Dragonstone
For the third post in our look at the State of Westeros we turn to Dragonstone to see what Dany has planned. Next up we’ll be heading to Oldtown.