Nothing happens there, Marissa Meyer overdoes the descriptiveness even more than usual, and the writing is horrendously basic so basic many "paragraphs" are one word or three words, no exaggeration. It's a mud puddle to plough through at extra slow speed. The second 25% is torture, 1-star in every sense. That it didn't happen saved the book and made it possible for me to forgive a lot of what did happen, although not everything. I'd have absolutely loathed either option, and both would've made this book my first DNF in years. None of which happens! There is no love triangle, thank goodness, and the Alder King stays a bastard till the very end, thank Marissa Meyer. As I mentioned in my old review, certain things in the sample made me worry about two things: the possibility of a love triangle and the possibility of a redemption for the Erlkönig. It's the part at Adelheid Castle after the Erlking forces Serilda to be his queen, this is no spoiler as it's already in the first book. You could divide the book into four parts, the first 25% is as I described in my old review of the ARC sample (the final published book was purchased by me, so it's not an ARC), and on reread, it still holds up and gets 4 stars.
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In The Art of Making Memories he brings together his extensive research drawn from the world's biggest study on happy memories (which involved 1000 people from 75 countries), conducted at the Happiness Research Institute, along with data and diaries, interviews, global surveys and studies, and real-life behavioural science and happiness experiments, to explain the nuances of nostalgia, the different ways we form memories around our experiences, and how we can become better at recalling them. Happiness expert Meik Wiking has the answers. But how do we make and keep the memories that bring us lasting joy? Why is it that a piece of music, a smell, a taste can take us back to something we had forgotten? How is it that we remember our first kiss in detail, but barely remember anything of a fortnight's holiday from five years ago? Memories are the cornerstones of our identity, shaping who we are, how we act, and how we feel. 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The 18-cow Bernish prefix was founded over 20 years ago and was winner of the NI Limousin Club’s best medium herd award in 2022.ĭungannon Limousin judge Andrew Ewing Jnr from Annan, Dumfries. Born in June 2021 he was sired by the 32,000gns Ampertaine Elgin, and is out of the home-bred dam Bernish Missyfortune. Hitting the headlines in the show and sale rings was the much-admired senior bull Bernish Samson bred by Kieran McCrory from Sixmilecross, County Tyrone. Top price at the British Limousin Cattle Society’s Dungannon show and sale was the 8,500gns male and supreme overall champion Bernish Samson bred by Kieran McCrory, Sixmilecross, Co Tyrone. 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