{"id":20872,"date":"2022-10-15T20:36:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T00:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=20872"},"modified":"2022-10-15T21:27:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T01:27:50","slug":"the-great-atlantean-battle-royalchemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20872","title":{"rendered":"The Great Atlantean Battle Royalchemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/kd-edwards.com\/\">The Great Atlantean Battle Royalchemy<\/a><\/em> (2022) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/Edwards_KD.php\">K.D. Edwards<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kd-edwards.com\/extra-content\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The-Great-Atlantean-Battle-Royalchemy.png?resize=194%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Great Atlantean Battle Royalchemy\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The-Great-Atlantean-Battle-Royalchemy.png?w=1423&amp;ssl=1 1423w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The-Great-Atlantean-Battle-Royalchemy.png?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The-Great-Atlantean-Battle-Royalchemy.png?resize=662%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 662w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The-Great-Atlantean-Battle-Royalchemy.png?resize=768%2C1187&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The-Great-Atlantean-Battle-Royalchemy.png?resize=994%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 994w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/The-Great-Atlantean-Battle-Royalchemy.png?resize=1325%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>This takes place between <em>The Hanged Man<\/em> and <em>The Hourglass Throne<\/em>. Rune has to judge an alchemy contest that is possibly going to harm the peace of Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>As always, the dialog was wonderful.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Did Layne tell Corinne that they left the estate?\u201d I asked bluntly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am suddenly uncertain,\u201d Ciaran admitted. \u201cHave you specifically told Layne to inform Corinne of their whereabouts?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLayne is sixteen years old. Is that specific enough?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d never\u2014not once that I could remember\u2014seen Ciaran falter. But a dumbstruck look on his face was quickly swallowed by genuine laughter. \u201cRune Sun, if you think you don\u2019t need to set ground rules with teenagers just because they technically understand the English language, then the next few years are going to be even more amusing than I expected.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This probably isn&#8217;t something you&#8217;ll enjoy as much if you aren&#8217;t already immersed in the world of the Tarot Sequence, but I found it delightful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Atlantean Battle Royalchemy (2022) K.D. Edwards This takes place between The Hanged Man and The Hourglass Throne. Rune has to judge an alchemy contest that is possibly going to harm the peace of Atlantis. As always, the dialog was wonderful. Did Layne tell Corinne that they left the estate?\u201d I asked bluntly. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[194,292,2,196,148,16],"tags":[222,544,223],"class_list":["post-20872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-5-10","category-ebook","category-fantasy","category-novella","category-queer","category-supernatural","tag-kd-edwards","tag-mm","tag-tarot-sequence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5qE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17560,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/17560","url_meta":{"origin":20872,"position":0},"title":"The Last Sun","author":"Michelle","date":"July 11, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The Last Sun (2018) K.D. 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