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Series Review: The Kingston Cycle by C.L. Polk

Greetings and welcome to Reviews That Burn: Series Reviews, part of Books That Burn. Series Reviews discuss at least three books in a series and cover the overarching themes and development of the story across several books. I'd like to thank longtime Patron Case Aiken, who receives a monthly shoutout. This episode discusses The Kingston Cycle by C. L. Polk.  Full Audio Here    In an original world reminiscent of Edwardian England in the shadow of a World War, cabals of noble families use their unique magical gifts to control the fates of nations, while one young man seeks only to live a life of his own. Magic marked Miles Singer for suffering the day he was born, doomed either to be enslaved to his family's interest or to be committed to a witches' asylum. He went to war to escape his destiny and came home a different man, but he couldn’t leave his past behind. The war between Aeland and Laneer leaves men changed, strangers to their friends and family, but even after...

Animorphs Book 36: The Mutation by K. A. Applegate

The Mutation brings a new level of revulsion and body horror to a series already full of both. It features a kind of believable and deeply terrifying portrayal of Atlantis. Jake is trying to be a good leader but it's getting really tough.

This whole series is dark, but for the last few books we've been treated to new and horrifying types of darkness. It's not so much that it's getting darker, as that it's spreading out to the sides in a pool of creepy stuff.

A boy (Jake) turns into an orca

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