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Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 23 – 27

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 23 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 24 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 25 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 26 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 27 by CLAMP

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Volume 23 – The original and the copy are going at it in dreams, Sakura is horrified by their actions.  Everyone outside the dreaming is waiting impatiently, as there is nothing they can do.  Original Syaoran has fallen and Sakura runs to his side.  Copy Syaoran even goes so far as to wound Sakura in his quest to get the feather inside O-Syaoran.  Fei-Wang Reed goads C-Syaoran saying that Sakura’s soul is not important to his plans (only her body is necessary) so go ahead and […]

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 17 – 22

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 17 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 18 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 19 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 20 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 21 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 22 by CLAMP

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Volume 17 – In all the fighting, and teleporting, in and out of the cistern, the water reservoir has been nearly depleted.  Yuko can fill the reservoir and save Fai’s life but it involves people asking for wishes and being able to fulfill payment for the wish.  The end result is that Fai, despite his desire to die, will be saved by being made into a vampire with Kamui’s blood.  But because it is Kurogane’s wish, he must take responsibility for Fai, as such the only […]

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 14 – 16

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 14 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 15 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 16 by CLAMP

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Why this all began,  Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles read through. Volume 14 – The volume opens with Yuko and Fei-Wang Reed throwing verbal barbs at one another while magically communicating across dimensions.  In Recort, Syaoran and Kurogane discuss the discovery that the people who killed Kurogane’s mother and attacked Syaoran’s country are from the same dimension.  This adds a new reason to keep dimension hopping. Sakura and Fai have been investigating and learned that the book that allowed Syaoran to see Kurogane’s memory is literally called, ‘the […]

The sun summoner who became a saint, concluding the Shadow and Bone trilogy

Seige and Storm: The Shadow and Bone Trilogy book 2 by Leigh Bardugo

Ruin and Rising: The Shadow and Bone Trilogy book 3 by Leigh Bardugo

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Leigh Bardugo started off the first book in her Grishaverse, Shadow and Bone, with a neat mechanic, there was a “Before” section, and then chapter one.  It sets up the background of the book in a simplistic, story book format, referring to the main characters as boy and girl, instead of using their names.  At the end, there was an “After” section following the last chapter.  Same form as at the beginning, but wrapping things up.  She continued doing this for books two and three […]

Continuing Tsubasa read through. Volumes 7 – 13

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 7 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 8 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 9 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 10 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 11 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 12 by CLAMP

Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Vol. 13 by CLAMP

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Here is the start of my Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles volumes 1-6 journey if you’re curious as to how this started.  The manga is rated 13+ but when I let my seven year old start reading it I couldn’t think of anything that would be inappropriate.  However, on this re-read I believe the rating is due to alcohol consumption.  It doesn’t happen often but the characters do indulge from time to time.  And as the ages of Syaoran and Sakura are not stated, and they seem […]

Why is Rhysand so sexy? Because it’s always Feyre’s choice.

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

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I’ve now gotten to the third book in Sarah J. Maas’s ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ series, A Court of Wings and Ruin.  Over the past three books I’ve mused about what makes Rhysand such a sexy character, beyond how devastatingly handsome he is, and I’ve come to the conclusion that it has to do with always allowing Feyre to make her own decisions.  He’s charming, flirtatious, intelligent, caring, loyal to a fault, a touch wicked, with just the right amount of restrained violence that […]



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