#adrian selby

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Map from the novel Sankewood by Adrian Selby (map by Tim Paul).

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To celebrate my first ever October free from schoolwork and uni, I have decided to try and participate in @ailesswhumptober! I'll try to do as many days as I can and we'll see how it goes. All my entries will be published on ao3, where my handle is OneLastLullaby. I will be tagging all the entries as #lisa writes whump so block that tag if you don't want to see them! Here's day 1!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Prompt: poisoned

Fandom: Snakewood

Summary: the Flower of Fates is a soldier's way to go out, and Shale always knew he'd die with a sword in his hand and at least one more in his gut. His only regret is he didn't manage to get Gant home first. Hopefully, that's something forty summers of love can forgive.

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RAVENCLAW: "Knowledge can help a small power always overcome a much greater power." –Adrian Selby (Teyr Amondsen: The Winter Road)

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So I’m reading Brother Red on a friend’s extremely insistent recommendation (it was either this or Malazan). And it’s quite good so far, even if the invented slang and vernacular is a bit hard to pass and all the proper nouns are flowing right over my head.

But right now mildly amused by the fact that it’s one of the POV’s that feels the need to finish half the character descriptions with a grade on how fuckable they are. Also, the protagonist and her entire milieu are grizzled mercenaries who regularly drink alchemical potions with various long term side effects.

So you get descriptions like (paraphrased) “She was in her late 50s with grey hair on a mostly shaven head. Her eyes were a pure pale yellow and her face was mostly burns or bark. I would sleep with her in a hearbeat.”

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6/17 Book Deals

Hey guys, happy Monday! I hope you’ve had a great weekend and that your week is off to a wonderful start. :)There are actually some really good books on sale today (The Poppy War is awesome!), so definitely have a look at all of those. :) I should give you guys a head’s up that I won’t have any deals up next week because I’ll be out of town, but I’ll still have them this week Have a fantastic day, everyone!

Find past book deals here–many of which are still on sale!

Today’s Deals:

The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang - https://amzn.to/2ZptQRu

Sweet Black Waves by Kristina Pérez - https://amzn.to/2Zvo150

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler - https://amzn.to/2Rmi1IZ 

Lady Macbeth by Susan Fraser King - https://amzn.to/31D3qxL

Almost Impossible by Nicole Williams - https://amzn.to/2Rmp1Wv

The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless - https://amzn.to/2KtF0BF

Cults, Conspiracies, & Secret Societies by Arthur Goldwag - https://amzn.to/31EHcLB

When the Moon Is Low by Nadia Hashimi - https://amzn.to/2XeoQ51

Ross Poldark (Poldark #1) by Winston Graham - https://amzn.to/2MUuwgt

Demelza (Poldark #2) by Winston Graham - https://amzn.to/2Xie7GM

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton - https://amzn.to/2KlqMm7

Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern & David Grinspoon - https://amzn.to/2FhEHW9

The Winter Road by Adrian Selby - https://amzn.to/2Xn0XrK

NOTE:  I am categorizing these book deals posts under the tag #bookdeals, so if you don’t want to see them then just block that tag and you should be good. I am an Amazon affiliate in addition to a Book Depository affiliate and will receive a small (but very much needed!)  commission on any purchase made through these links.

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GRYFFINDOR: "Love is speaking the truth because it hurts, and it is hiding it to avoid hurt, and choosing right never comes easy or often." –Adrian Selby (Teyr Amondsen: The Winter Road)

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It's honestly kind of endearing how Driwna's type seems to be "conventionally attractive men with lots of social intelligence, and women who have failed at least one saving through against a transmutation effect"

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SLYTHERIN: "He wanted to be the best, saw that if you could put together a group of the best swords and pirates and drudhas and the like you could charge a fat purse for them to fix the battle in your favour, teaching tactics to the fat rich aristos who held rank, leading crews to learn a few things to ensure you get the odds for a win. It was about him showing all of them that were born to riches that it meant nothing." –Adrian Selby (Gant: Snakewood)