Orlissa

When your brain tells you mean things…don’t believe it!

Ha, I told you! :) <3

Okay, let's see...

Sasha Peyton Smith: The Rose Bargain & The Thorn Queen (note: I haven't actually read the second book yet, it's on my work docket) - alternative history where by 1848, a fae queen has been ruling over England for four hundred years who now wants to find a bride for her son, cue a competetion, while forces work in the shadows to unseat the queen. Really works with the charming and deadly cruel of faes. 8And it's actually pretty spot on with historical fashion!)

Lynette Noni: The Prison Healer & The Gilded Cage & The Blood Traitor - 17 years old FMC has been living in a prison where they work you until you die, and serving as the prison's healer for some time, and when some mysterious new inmates arrive, she gets tangled up some deadly trials. YA fantasy that will eventually deal with a fight for a throne.

Emily Krempholtz: Violet Thislewaithe Is Not a Villain Anymore - adult cozy fantasy where after securing the downfall of her master, a former evil henchwoman tries to build a new life for herself while realizing that she has a bunch of trauma to process.

Brigitte Knightley: The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy - in a world where magic users belong to different guilds, a guy belonging to the assasin guild is grappling with a medical condition that will slowly kill him. To avoid this, he blackmails a woman belonging to the healer guild to help find him an unlikely cure. Dirty humor, puns, and a good helping of old English folklore. Ends at a maddening point, but the second book is coming out in July, I think. (Originally a Dramione fanfic.)

India Holton: Dangerous Damsels trilogy - adult cozy/satorical fantasy with late Victorian lady pirates pillaging with magically flying houses. Some smut, laughing out loud funny.

And I don't know if you've read Divine Rivals & Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross, because I wholeheartedly recommend those as well.

So... the police just left.

We have a family friend, she lives in the same town as my dad, but on the other side of the town, while my dad's place is like a hundred yards away from the bus stop. She works in a different town. So she'd come to my dad's place before a shift, let herself in - we have an electric gate, she has her own remote - store her bike in our garage, go to work, come back, pick up her bike, go home.

Just after 11pm, my dad I were already in PJs when we heeard the gate open - yeah, okay, she's here. A moment later she knocks on the window "ha-ha, very funny, where's my bike?"

So... my dad got home from work around 4pm. She left the gate open. My train got in at 5:15, another family friend came to pick me up, so I got home at around... 5:20-25.

Between these two times someone must have sneaked in, walked past the front door - the garage is behind the house -, opened the garage (the key is always in the lock, but it's not silent) and left with the bike.

So the police was notified at like 11:30, two officers came to check the place, and now everyone's a nervouse wreck.

I'm visiting a friend abroad soon. Will the plane ticket cost a pretty penny? Yeah. Will it put a significant dent into my savings? No. Will I ever be able to buy a home, no matter how diligently I save? (Sad laughter.) No. Will I still feel bad about spending that money on myself? Yeah.