Une rose et un balai

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This is an amazing adventure with interesting story and great number of characters we already met in the Revelations series and we get to know some of them better, like the royal family of Melengar, Hilfred and Viscount Albert Winslow. Meeting of Albert Winslow is the funniest chapter in the book and conversation between Royce and Hadrian about helping people is hilarious: Royce Melborn aka Duster - we haven’t seen how truly dangerous he could really be, until now. Throughout reading Riyria Revelations, it was mentioned numerous times about what Royce was capable of during his much earlier days, but by that point in the overall story, it was almost all tell and no show as he has been tempered by his many years of friendship with Hadrian. In this book, however, we actually got to see this complex and fascinating character live up to that reputation.

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Furthermore, it teaches us that just because there is suffering doesn't mean we should run from it. In fact, the five or six most powerful lines in the song are dedicated to making this point. It is suffering, hardship, and not getting what we want that ultimately teaches us how valuable life is and how deeply it should be appreciated. Instead of running from these things under the naive illusion that life is supposed to be perfect, it is better to accept them (not in a defeatist way, of course). Rueben is a new character that also has a POV, he is sixteen and he works in the palace stable. He is kind hearted, brave and loyal. Royce and Hadrian were also central to this one, although not as much so as in the first prequel. I really enjoyed Royce's revenge spree as it drove home how ruthless and bloodthirsty Royce can be. This was often shown rather than told early on in the main series but in these prequels it's demonstrated emphatically. I also liked their budding partnership, which has developed quite a bit in the year since they first met. Their tense, adversarial partnership has been replaced by respect and trust although there's still tension caused by the clash of Royce's ruthlessness with Hadrian's idealism. Miticides used against the spider mite do not appear to be effective against this tiny wooly mite. The virus does not appear to be spread by way of dirty pruners either, but only by the tiny mites.I also don’t know how Sullivan is successful once again in capturing the spirit of the story! I can read endless stories about this duo and I won’t get tired! It is even more impressive given the fact that these are prequels written after the first story so the risk to ruin things is big and yet Sullivan keeps upping his writing game! I was listening to the radio. A song came on the radio. It was “MAGDALENA” by Danny O’Keefe, sung by Leo Sayer. I liked it immediately. My favorite line was “Your love is like a razor. My heart is just a scar.”I thought,”Ooh, I love that lyric.” In my view, The Crown Tower together with the The Rose and The Thorn form the origins duology of the Riyria duo. It also seeded the conspiracy that was over ten years in the making, leading into the captivating story that started in The Riyria Revelations. As far as prequels go, The Riyria Chronicles were superbly well-written, and continues to solidify the reasons why Michael J. Sullivan ranks as one of my favourite authors.

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McBroom won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, but was not nominated for an Academy Award. With her `divine' performance, Bette Midler was awarded the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. a Hart Argent (to reinforce his succession from Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March the heir of Richard II)Albert is also here, how riyria met him is so not how I imagined it. Gwen was here too but her POV was very small, she didn’t do much in this book so her character didn’t progress. To sum up, I really enjoyed reading ‘’The Rose and the Thorn’’, it was fast paced, fun, intriguing, it made me happy and it made me sad and it does a great job of setting up ground for the ‘’Theft of Swords’’. I think I'm running out of ways to praise this series, so suffice it to say that I will re-read these many times over the years to come. Even if you’re doing it for selfish reasons, you’re still helping to save his life. It just goes to show that good can come from helping a stranger, and it proves that the world isn’t so bad after all.”