{"id":5313,"date":"2015-07-01T14:36:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T18:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5313"},"modified":"2021-09-22T18:31:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T22:31:14","slug":"spellbinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5313","title":{"rendered":"Spellbinder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spellbinder<\/a><\/em> (2015) C.C. Hunter<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Spellbinder\"<\/a>This is a Shadow Falls novella, and gives us some of Miranda Kane’s story.<\/p>\n

Plus Della and Kylie.<\/p>\n

\u201c…And then she fell to her knees like in that epic movie, Gone to the Breeze, I think that was the name of it, where the heroine yells out, \u2018I shall never go hungry again.\u2019\u201d
\n\u201cGone with the Wind,\u201d Miranda corrected, then stood dumbstruck hearing Della\u2019s description of the events.
\n\u201cBreeze, wind, same thing,\u201d Della said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll be honest, I’ve always liked Miranda as a character, but never found her interesting, except for her interactions with Kylie and Della. She has always been very much a stereotypical teenage girls, and although there’s nothing wrong with that, it’s not something I find interesting.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Miranda has seem very big and very unpleasant surprises in this story.<\/p>\n

Mom told me all the fuss was about the cookies.\u201d
\n\u201cCookies?\u201d Kylie asked and grinned. \u201cAnd you believed her.\u201d
\n\u201cHey, I was three. Cookies were a big deal.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although that bit is hilarious, it’s also very true to how we often accept things were are told as young children and never reconsider then until someone questions us about them.<\/p>\n

Of course a three-year-old would accept that her mom and another woman would fight over cookies. And if the subject didn’t keep coming up regularly, it would just set there in her mind as fact, without further critical thought.<\/p>\n

I found some parts of this story to accept, so I won’t say it’s anywhere near as good as the other novellas and stories, but it does have a giant revelation about Miranda.
\nRating:6\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by St. Martin’s Griffin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Plus Della and Kylie. \u201c…And then she fell to her knees like in that epic movie, Gone to the Breeze, I think that was the name of it, where the heroine yells out, \u2018I shall never go […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[217],"class_list":["post-5313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","tag-witches"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1nH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11236,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11236","url_meta":{"origin":5313,"position":0},"title":"Midnight Hour","author":"Michelle","date":"November 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Midnight Hour (2016) C. 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