★★★☆☆ | Fantasy | Digital | Own | StoryGraph | GoodreadsÂ
A formulaic Hero’s Journey as only Stephen King could write. Connor passed away in the middle of my reading this. I had to put it down while his death was still so fresh. I couldn’t fathom reading about a young man putting his life on the line in a fantasy story – or any story. I picked it back up a few weeks later as a distraction, but never really got into it. The characters weren’t fully developed and I never really connected with the protagonist. Might be the time.
Highlights
Whiskey doesn’t smell the same as gin… yet it does. All alcohol smells the same to me, of sadness and loss.
good people shine brighter in dark times.
tempus est umbra in mente is a better one. Roughly translated, it means time is a shadow in the mind.
There’s a dark well in everyone, I think, and it never goes dry. But you drink from it at your peril. That water is poison.