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While I’m reading one of my longest books so far this year, which is requiring quite a bit of my brain power, I thought I’d break things up, give myself a little breather, and read a novella. I haven’t read many novellas or shorter stories, but this is by the Green Bone Saga author whose trilogy I’ve really enjoyed, and I’ve heard so many good things about this book. Thanks to my sister for getting me this! Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee is a standalone story focusing on Ester. Her quaint merchant family life is brought to a sudden end when a Manticore kills her younger brother and mother. Ester swears vengeance, and with a good interest in the lifestyle thanks to meeting a trainer and his bird before, decides to become a ruhker, a Roc handler. Rocs aka big eagles, are the only things that can take down the quilled feline beasts with ape’s heads and scorpion tails. Obviously, Rocs themselves are terrifying monsters, but Ester puts her all into becoming the ruhker for Zahra, a newly

While I’m reading one of my longest books so far this year, which is requiring quite a bit of my brain power, I thought I’d break things up, give myself a little breather, and read a novella. I haven’t read many novellas or shorter stories, but this is by the Green Bone Saga author whose trilogy I’ve really enjoyed, and I’ve heard so many good things about this book. Thanks to my sister for getting me this! Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee is a standalone story focusing on Ester. Her quaint merchant family life is brought to a sudden end when a Manticore kills her younger brother and mother. Ester swears vengeance, and with a good interest in the lifestyle thanks to meeting a trainer and his bird before, decides to become a ruhker, a Roc handler. Rocs aka big eagles, are the only things that can take down the quilled feline beasts with ape’s heads and scorpion tails. Obviously, Rocs themselves are terrifying monsters, but Ester puts her all into becoming the ruhker for Zahra, a newly

Oichi found me the next morning perusing a map of Ransei. A little Starly was beside me, eating some of our breakfast that I had requested. For the past however many weeks, maybe even months for I was quickly losing track of time, I had breakfast with either Oichi, the other warriors or both. So, the fact I wasn’t there would have surprised her, and I guess she was, but my back was turned to her. She came to sit at the other end of the table, Cherry carrying their own breakfast. Mute was on the table herself, her paws on the three kingdoms Oichi had told me about the night before: Pugilis, Violight and Chrysali. “Oh, I didn’t expect you to already be planning things.” I nodded, “Well, the sooner we achieve peace the better, then the fighting can stop. This little Starly as well brought news to Fontaine just after dawn, which was the most unexpected wake up call.” “I can imagine,” she giggled sweetly. “Anyway, we have an update from the other kingdoms, and I have a request from

While I’m reading one of my longest books so far this year, which is requiring quite a bit of my brain power, I thought I’d break things up, give myself a little breather, and read a novella. I haven’t read many novellas or shorter stories, but this is by the Green Bone Saga author whose trilogy I’ve really enjoyed, and I’ve heard so many good things about this book. Thanks to my sister for getting me this! Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee is a standalone story focusing on Ester. Her quaint merchant family life is brought to a sudden end when a Manticore kills her younger brother and mother. Ester swears vengeance, and with a good interest in the lifestyle thanks to meeting a trainer and his bird before, decides to become a ruhker, a Roc handler. Rocs aka big eagles, are the only things that can take down the quilled feline beasts with ape’s heads and scorpion tails. Obviously, Rocs themselves are terrifying monsters, but Ester puts her all into becoming the ruhker for Zahra, a newly

It was another day in the bustling city of Lumiose. With the recent implementation of wild areas and the battle system, it seemed that the time between Pokémon and humans had never been greater… unless you were a man named Keith. The man in question might not have come across as anything out of the ordinary as he got off the train: jeans, white t-shirt and black jacket, typical brown hair with maybe the odd grey strand and brown eyes… but should one’s eyes peer with greater scrutiny, oddities made themselves known. The man had no luggage, a very worn backpack and the oldest phone possible. Not a Rotom phone but one of those sturdier, can’t even play Seviper phones. The man was also fiddling with something: a couple of keys, one quite modern and the other incredibly old and small. Keith flashed his ticket as he exited the train station, the only other thing of newness on his person, making his way out and sighing, the grey skies above reflecting his mood. He only hoped that coming

(Obviously this summary contains spoilers! This is for those who wish to jump into the sequel without having to read over 100 chapters.) Runa awakens with no memory in the rain but is found by Barry. In order to discover her origins, Runa leaves her caretaker Dawn and becomes a Pokémon trainer alongside Barry in the Sinnoh region. She gets her starter, Raguna the Turtwig, and agree to help Professor Rowan with his research into evolution, by seeing if changing each action each turn in battle results in any evolution changes (thus making the run a Tormentlocke). Runa managed to get her first catches, with the most notable being Aden the Starly, Julia the Magikarp and Bismark the Shinx. The group are asked by Runa what their dreams are, so that she can help them achieve it alongside her own. Raguna wants to be a farmer, Aden a cool leader, Julia a beauty idol and Bismark a champion. This last dream goes unfulfilled: Runa’s first battle with Barry sees Bismark lose his life to his own