{"id":21851,"date":"2023-04-29T12:04:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T16:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=21851"},"modified":"2023-05-29T20:15:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T00:15:38","slug":"cursed-audio-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/21851","title":{"rendered":"Cursed, Audio Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cursed<\/em>, Audio Edition<\/a> (2014) Benedict Jacka<\/a> narrated by Gildart Jackson (Alex Verus)<\/p>\n

\"Cursed\"<\/a>Alex is teaching Luna as if she were his apprentice, except that Alex’s magic is fairly uncommon and Luna’s curse seems to be unique.<\/p>\n

Looking through the futures I saw my possible actions, and their consequences. I saw myself stepping on the loose piece of scrap metal in front of me, saw myself tripping and falling, and corrected my movements to avoid it. As I did, the future in which I fell thinned to nothingness, never to exist, and the futures of me stepping around it brightened in its place. By seeing the future, I decided; as I decided, the future changed, and new futures replaced those never to happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, they don’t act as master and apprentice, and it causes problems when Luna meets Martin, who knows about magic although he has none of his own.<\/p>\n

Even worse, Martin picks up and takes an item from Alex’s shop: a monkey’s paw.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou remember the little white and blue lacquered tube I showed you three months ago in the safe room? The one I told you to never ever touch?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYes \u2026 Wait. It was that? You gave him that?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t give him anything.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThen why didn\u2019t you tell him not to take it?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou think I\u2019d be telling you this if he\u2019d listened?\u201d I turned away from Luna and walked to the corner. There was a single window of frosted glass high on the wall and I stared up at it. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does it do?\u201d Luna asked from behind me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Publisher: Tantor Audio<\/p>\n

Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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