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A very sweet adventure story, gorgeously packaged

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

March 26, 2025 by Malin 3 Comments

4.5 stars Buzzword Cover Challenge 25: Celestial (there is a big moon and several stars on the cover) What if in The Princess Bride, Buttercup didn’t sit at home and mourn for Westley when he was captured by pirates, but instead went off to try to rescue him? Of course, that would mean Buttercup had any agency at all in either the novel or the film, and she really doesn’t. But if Buttercup was a young woman named Tress, from a barren and fairly desolate […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, adventure, audiobook, brandon sanderson, cbr17, curse, dragons, magic, Malin, michael kramer, quest, Secret Project, the cosmere, the Dark Corner, The Princess Bride

Malin's CBR17 Review No:18 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, adventure, audiobook, brandon sanderson, cbr17, curse, dragons, magic, Malin, michael kramer, quest, Secret Project, the cosmere, the Dark Corner, The Princess Bride ·
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