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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...
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Clear Your Shit: Campfire and new friends (Scary)

It turns out that there's a lot of people on this quest. So many that when we were ready to stop for the night we found a cluster of campfires in an impromptu tent village. Everyone was on the same quest as we were. We joined one of the fires and started telling scary stories. I read a few out of Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James, but we decided that the occasionally actually creepy story wasn't worth the old-timey racism and I didn't finish the book. 

Now we'll have to sleep tonight... yay, no problem at all, sleeping... after that. In the woods. With a bunch of strangers around, just out of the light of the slowly dimming fire. 

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