Another Friday night, another trip through a potentially haunted house. Shay’s not a believer, but she’s willing to help her best friend, Max, with their amateur ghost hunting show. Little does she know she is about to be thrown into a world of witches and dangerous spirits.
With newly discovered abilities, Shay finds that she can both see and touch spirits. The downside is, the ghosts can touch her back, and it seems that they'll do anything to get a hold of her.
She was never much of a ghost hunter. How will she do when she is the one being hunted?
Grave Reflection is the first book of Ghost Punch, an exciting paranormal series full of mystery and action!
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Finished the first draft of Ihale 4 (The Bone Temple)
Finished the first draft of a Secret Project
Decided to take Where the Moon Doesn’t Shine in a different direction
Drafting Ghost Punch 4 (Heart of the Matter) I don’t have a problem
Hoping to get started on the cover for Grave Reflection soon since it’s coming out in NOVEMBERRRR
That’s all! Just working on stuff and having fun. I’m moving next month sometime so once that stress is over I’m hoping to dive into hardcore work mode
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Ihale City is more vulnerable than ever. The walls are cracking and people are going missing. Crystals spear up from the ground.
And it all leads back to the third seal.
Heln has a duty to break the seals and unleash the full might of the forest god. Even if it is the only way to save the city, it could come at a cost he’s not willing to pay.
There are forces much more powerful than he ever imagined moving to stop him. He has his friends and family at his back, and an unexpected ally, but it might not be enough.
The Crystal Blight (The Ihale Series Book 3) releases August 21st
Ihale City is more vulnerable than ever. The walls are cracking and people are going missing. Crystals spear up from the ground.
And it all leads back to the third seal.
Heln has a duty to break the seals and unleash the full might of the forest god. Even if it is the only way to save the city, it could come at a cost he’s not willing to pay.
There are forces much more powerful than he ever imagined moving to stop him. He has his friends and family at his back, and an unexpected ally, but it might not be enough.
The Crystal Blight (The Ihale Series Book 3) releases August 21st
I received an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.
“And what about when all the seals are broken?” Rhyss asked.
"We are talking about the bone peddler,” Bel said. “Literally the harbinger of misfortune and death. The crowned one. All of these sound like bad things, Heln.”
“Death is a part of life,” Heln said. “It always has been. It always will be. People didn’t stop dying because the god was sealed away. The forest didn’t stop growing.”
A story usually sticks in my mind while I’m away from it for one of two reasons:
Something about it is so astronomically bizarre and puzzling that I can’t help trying to put it in order and figure out why it bothers me, or
It is such a delight that I can’t hardly bear to be apart from its atmosphere, and I spend my time recreating its ambiance in my mind until I can dive back into it.
Mostly, I hover at the edge of these, not quite enthralled in either direction, and perfectly content to put a book down and go about my day without giving it another thought until reading time comes back around. The Crystal Blight fizzes with personality and exudes an aura of damp, old forest and stone, crackling magic, and the translucent ghosts of gods and myths. Alongside its bright cast of queer characters—trans, aro, ace, bi, lesbian, all your favorites are there—I found it catching my imagination constantly while away.
This next installment in the Ihale series picks up in the midst of powerful magic—that unique mix of earth and green and decay and life, tossed together with the world’s script magic. After all, this is a story of unsettled magics. I continue to be delighted in the way script is described. Its very name and shape recall writing and its form a physical thing to be spun together, snatched, shattered in a very tangible way. Magic is so often an intangible thing in stories—a floating, ethereal thing. Somehow Lawrence’s word choice gives script a weight in the world, a fascinating presence of its own.
Alongside the very mechanical, logical script is the wild, natural magic of the forest god and the world itself. With The Crystal Blight, the terrible events of the first two books solidify—quite literally, as crystal infests the city—and we come to see that history as it is written, remembered, and celebrated is not always the whole truth. History is set to repeat itself if Heln, Bel, Rhyss and the others aren’t careful.
I love how much The Crystal Blight plays with the idea that all is not as it seems: the Heroes of history are more complicated than they are remembered; they are more present than anyone believes; and their stories are far from over. The Crystal Blight makes it clear that we, as readers, are not walking into the beginning of the story as it may have seemed in The Rising Stones. This is the smack-dab middle of it. This is not a new chapter in an old world. This is the continuation of old chapters already in motion. There’s something delightful in that sense of age.
And yet, alongside the moss and the old trees, the practical warming scripts in the seams of shirts and the cracked stone flowering beneath ancient hooves, the magic-fueled prosthetics and shapeshifters straight from legend, there is also levity and light.
Lawrence’s writing shines in the quick banter between siblings and friends, in sharply shot quips from characters confident in who they are. Perhaps the only thing to tarnish this is the occasional ambiguous pronouns in descriptions. With our ensemble of returning and new characters, it can be easy to get lost in the he’s and she’s and they’s of a scene moving quickly, and sometimes it feels like Lawrence is reluctant to use names at these times. An unspoken rule in the English language is that a pronoun on its own usually refers to the last named person who uses those pronouns: Rhyss grabbed her dagger—where “her” is Rhyss. Lawrence doesn’t always follow this, and in scenes where there are multiple characters with the same pronouns, it can take a moment to suss out which “he” is being referred to.
This doesn’t dampen the fun of the banter, nor the action and adventure of the story. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed each book in the series so far. They’re fun, and while I classify them as “popcorn” books because of how fast and easy they are to read, that in no way diminishes them. The relationships growing between characters and the way history in these stories is played with and twisted is a heck of a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to future installments, and to rereading them all when all’s said and done.
Ihale City is more vulnerable than ever. The walls are cracking and people are going missing. Crystals spear up from the ground.
And it all leads back to the third seal.
Heln has a duty to break the seals and unleash the full might of the forest god. Even if it is the only way to save the city, it could come at a cost he’s not willing to pay.
There are forces much more powerful than he ever imagined moving to stop him. He has his friends and family at his back, and an unexpected ally, but it might not be enough.
The Crystal Blight (The Ihale Series Book 3) releases August 21st
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The nature of her magic means she’s destined to be one.
But when a baby dragon appears, she has to make a choice: kill a tiny, helpless creature to keep thousands of years of tradition and magic alive, or risk everything to do all she can to keep it safe and return it to its kind.
With the help of a charming sun priestess turned healer, a flower nymph, and a boy who sees the future in the stars, she might just have a chance.
Shay picked one and showed it to Jo. “Was this your card?”
“Judgement,” Jo said. The card showed a graveyard with dead people rising from it, a bright figure at the top blowing a long, golden instrument. “It means things are going to change.”
“Really?” Shay put an elbow on the table and her chin on her fist.
“I’m… more concerned about how literal your predictions usually are,” she said, ignoring Shay’s brattiness. “An angel calling up the dead doesn’t sound like my idea of a good time.”
“Mine either,” Shay said. “Are the angels? Is that a thing? This sounds more like the spirit charmer than some guy with wings and a halo.”
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“What kind of person is out driving in this weather at this time of night?” Shay asked. It was getting close to midnight. She didn’t think they’d been out that long.
“I mean, we are,” Max said.
“We were technically kind of sort of grave robbing so I don’t think I’d want to meet us on a dark lonely stretch of road in the middle of the night,” Shay said.
Max nodded. “Okay. Yeah. Fair point. Maybe I should go out there with him.”
“No way!” Shay grabbed their arm to keep them next to her. “If he dies he dies. We have watched so many horror movies. What do we do? We don’t leave the car.”
“...I was going to say life isn’t a horror movie, but uh… ours kind of has been,” Max admitted.