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Delightful. Beautiful world building and word weaving. Touches of wry humor, and clever commentary on the tragedy that takes over when the people who are trusted to watch out for us aren't worth that trust, and the suffering of those who are willing to say no to the status quo.
More than that, this is a beautiful story of family, no matter how odd and unlikely. Xan the witch, Glerk the swamp monster, and Fyrian the tiny dragon find themselves raising Luna, a child who was taken from her parents to offer as a sacrifice, the payment for the safety of the people in the gloomy, shadowed village called the Protectorate.
Luna was accidentally fed moonlight as a baby, and filled with magic. Xan took extreme measures to bind the magic until Luna was old enough to control it, and not accidentally destroy or remake everything around her. When that day came, the lives of the people most intimately involved with that long ago useless sacrifice all came together. How did the story end? Read it, or listen to it. And be ready to cry and laugh and sigh.
Tragic and beautiful and whimsical and finished far too soon.
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