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Writing Prompt: Dialogue

"It doesn't look too bad. Likely, it could use a couple of stitches, but..."

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Writing Prompt

There might have been sun if there wasn't so much smoke in the sky.

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Writing Prompt: Dialogue

"I want to come home with you. If you'll have me."

"You can't stay. Not for more than a couple of days. That's what you said."

"If you don't want me, I won't. But . . . I need to figure out what to do with the [----]."

"You're always welcome with us, whether your home is the Airstream or the [----] or sleeping in your truck."

"Home is wherever you are."

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Writing Prompt: Dialogue

"You know that I love you, whether you're human or not."

"Can we not talk about this right now?"

"No matter what, okay? You loved me when I was ordinary, and when I was magic."

"You would love me for whatever I've become. But I'm not sure I can love myself."

"Do you love me less now that...now that I'm a [----], again? Did you love me more when I was human?"

"I loved you on both sides of the veil. Truly. But this isn't about us. It's about me. I mean, I don't even know if I'm really me. I think so, but...what if I'm just a copy and this isn't real?"

"I think you're real. And reality is, at best, a subjective thing."

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Writing Prompt: Dialogue

"[----]?"

"Yeah?"

"About [----], is she still human? Or is she something else now?"

"I never made a homunculus before. Only saw it done just the once. Those people who made one long ago... understand that I didn't follow them afterward."

"You don't know."

"Your guess is as good as mine."

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Writing Prompt: Dialogue

"[----]! ...[----], where the hell are you?"

"Stop. Let her go,"

"[----], what the hell?"

"If you take her, you'll take a corpse that even you cannot repair. And I will never return to you again. You will be alone. Forever. ...This, I swear to you."

"...Get away from me."

"..."

"Get out,"

"No."

"I said, get out."

"You have to listen to me..."

"No. No, I don't. Not after you threatened to kill me. ...Are you all right?"

"I'm fine."

"Then you should leave. It's what you want, anyway."

"It's not what I want."

"You'd shoot me for that [----]."

"I will not let that [----] have you. Please understand. That was the only way it would have let you go."

"You would have shot me."

"Yes. Rather than let the [----] have you."

"You'd rather have me dead than give me immortal life. That's some fucked-up logic, there."

"Not when this immortal life is a nightmare! ...In its previous incarnation? I would have let you join the old [----]. I would do anything to have you by my side. This [----] . . . the [----] is not what it was. There's darkness in it. It's become corrupted, contaminated."

"Contaminated by what?"

"It feels like [----]'s magic. It . . . the [----] has been driven mad. It no longer has the [----]. Its children are gone, destroyed. It is incomplete, unsatisfied by control over just me. It's longing is palpable. You must not go near it again. The [----] wants you. And I don't want to make that choice. It would destroy me to kill you. It would. I could not go on without you. It would be the end of us both."

"...You'd kill me. To keep me from becoming like you."

"I want you to be free. Always. What the [----] is now creating is a hell. I would not see you consigned to it, even if it was forever with me."

"We have to get you away from it,"

"Once it has you, there is no escaping it. Not ever."

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One Sentence Review – Pawned by Laura Bickle @Laura_Bickle

Pawned is not my first book by Laura Bickle and it won’t be my last.

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Pawned by Laura Bickle is a wonderfully done fantasy of angels and demons, dragons and the mob, and the humans that inhabit a richly developed world, where everything revolves around Raz, his cousin, Carl, and Bert, a demonic lizard, and the magical pawn shop that he lives in, where things are sold and bought, and traded for favors.

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A volte capita che leggiamo un libro o una serie di libri nel momento sbagliato, magari la riprendiamo in mano a distanza di tempo e scopriamo invece di amarli. Altre vole invece abbiamo la conferma che l’avevamo abbandonata per un motivo valido.

Questo ultimo caso per me si è verificato con la serie Dark Alchemy, 6 libri urban fantasy di Laura Bickle.

1. Dark Alchemy (2015) 2. Mercury Retrograde (2015) 4. Nine of Stars (2016) 5. Witch Creek (2018) 6. Phoenix Falling (2019)

Trama del primo libro: la geologa Petra Dee per riprendersi da un terribile incidente di cui si sente responsabile arriva in Wyoming in cerca di indizi sulla scomparsa del padre avvenuta anni prima. Ma invece di quello che cercava trova Temperance, una morente città con un fulgido passato legato a giacimenti d’oro...giacimenti che si sussurra non siano mai esistiti, infatti leggenda vuole che l’oro in realtà provenisse da un certo Lascaris un alchemista, anch’esso scomparso, che aveva scoperto come creare il prezioso metallo...Sciocchezze crede Petra, finchè non si acorge delle cose strane che accadono intorno a lei. Lo spacciatore locale sanguina mercurio invece che sangue, l’ubriacone locale quando straparla sempre sapere fin troppo del passato altrui, e gli operai dell’unico ranch che propespera in quel territorio dimenticato da Dio sembrano automi che non possono essere feriti...e girano sempre circondati da corvi. Per non parlare dello strano rinvenimento di cadaveri recenti del tutto calcificati. La curiosità porterà Petra ad indagare e forse seguendo questa pista mistica troverà anche traccia di suo padre, se riuscirà a sopravviverea bbastanza a lungo. Per fortuna un coyote selvaggio ha deciso di prenderla in simpatia...

L’argomento e i temi dei libri sono molto interessanti, si parla di alchimia ma vista in modo piuttosto moderno e applicata alla realtà in modo magico /mistico con influenze western e indiano americane...veramente idee nuove e un immaginario innovativo e interessante. In alcuni punti mi ha ricordato Full metal alchemist, in altri no, ma comunque mi attirava molto.

Ho tentato di leggere questa serie due volte a distanza di anni, ma non c’è niente da fare non riesco a finirla, questa volta mi son fermata al terzo libro e ci sono arrivata a fatica saltando delle pagine, ma non intendo proseguire perchè è troppo lenta. Lenta e dispersiva ed è un peccato perchè se le trame fossero più veloci e serrate non sarebbero male. le idee sono veramente veramente buone. Poi però molte cose vengono iniziate e mai finite o mai spiegate...boh

Anche i personaggi sono interessanti con dei passati e presenti interessanti, ma restano freddi, non coinvolgono il lettore ed è anche questo un peccato. Ad un certo punto con buone premesse si sviluppa una storia d’amore ma non si capisce bene come e perchè....un giorno si baciano e il giorno dopo si amano già, ma abbastanza freddamente, senza dirselo...boh... e anche quella parte che funzionava fino al secondo libro, nel terzo decade....

Forse sono io che non apprezzo lo stile di scrittura dell’autrice, non lo so, come non so se consigliarvi i libri o meno. Provate il primo se vi incuriosisce e se lo amerete amerete anche i seguiti.