Spoil Me! Dandelion Dynasty

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! In these chapters we get a kind of baffling third challenge in the Restaurant Wars, and a real Moment between Kinri and Dandelion. Meanwhile, Mota is up to something with his plan to infiltrate Last Bite, but I can't figure out what that could be. And Thera is grieving while her children fight to live in the City Of Ghosts. Thank for list...

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! This is yet another installment in the Restaurant Wars, which don't get me wrong I *am* enjoying but I'm also a little puzzled? This gonna be the whole rest of the book? Apparently not everyone loved it, and while I can definitely understand why I have to admit that I'm really kind of here for it. Anytime we have a focus on a bad restaurant manager...

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! In these chapters we get to see how Jia is taking some of the information being sent her way about the pirate problem going on around Unredeemed Dara. But mostly what we get is more of the competition between the Splendid Urn and the Treasure Chest, and I'm starting to get frustrated with our side for their lack of creativity in dealing with this c...

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! These chapters concern the complete desolation wreaked by Cutanrovo and her so-called "Purification Packs", and then the restaurant war still going on between The Splendid Urn and The Treasure Chest. Cutanrovo has seemingly backed Tanvanaki into a corner, and we find out that poor little Mozo Mu is being blackmailed to participate in this contest....

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! These chapters are each very delightful in their own ways. First, we get to find out that Volyu is not getting the rewards for his betrayal that he was expecting, and is in fact being sent back to his people in such a way that he may wind up getting punished if there's any justice. Also, Toof and Radia are not traitors! They were helping!...

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! I'm so glad that I got a little respite from all the horrific atrocities that have been happening to just chill with the food workers and theatre kids. They're a delightful crew, and I'm looking forward to them managing to at least thwart and possibly take down a man who is not only a selfish greedy piece of shit, but also the kind of scum who agre...

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! These chapters are pretty rough. And though things are tinged with some hopefulness here and there, I swear to god I am going to need solid unmitigated win for human decency soon or I am going to LOSE it. We've got Timu being forced to burn priceless historical artifacts and the bodies of nuns and priests, we've got Thera being betrayed and losing...

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! In these chapters, there's far more devastation within Thera's community than I wax expecting. In fact, saying "within the community" is suggesting there's still a community at all after what happens, and that's barely true. Meanwhile we get a really fascinating conversation between Jia and Zomi, and I can't help but be impressed with Jia despite t...

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! In these chapters, we've got Thera once again doing the thing where she assumes that Dara's way of doing everything is superior to the Agon way, and gets schooled completely by an elder as a voice painting is made for the first time. Meanwhile, Timu decides to find his spine at the exact wrong time and causes a deep division in the Lyucu, resulting...

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode? I put a question mark there because I'm very much not thankful to Kyle for putting me through this. I'm not, Kyle. You're mean. These are some rough chapters, y'all. Like. Ugh.

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! These chapters are the ones in where Thera tries to pull back on her authority in their little camp and let the Agon people take the reigns a little more. Her uncle-in-law comes to them with a suggestion that I'm highly suspicious of. But by far the most upsetting thing is Jia's creation of a drug that can ruin entire communities. I hate this so mu...

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! These are some fascinating chapters, and also a little saddening for me personally. Because of my personal dislike for Jia, I assumed that her assurances that Phyro isn't ready for the throne were just a ploy for her to retain power. But the more we get to see of this situation, the more correct she seems to be. Even Zomi believes Jia is...

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! So we're doing the thing where we jump ahead a few years and we get to see the ways in which cultures clash against one another, and the variety of ways in which value systems that don't match can lead to deep misunderstandings and feelings of superiority that get in the way of effective communication. Also, we go to the palace for the first time i...

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! In these chapters, a misunderstanding almost results in Thera marrying the head of the clan she's trying to ally with, which would have led to the exile of the man she actually has grown to really care about (and whose child she's carrying, as we find out later). In the end, they manage to manipulate this guy into an allegiance, but WOOF...

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! We're still out here on the open sea, and we're getting to see the fallout of the attempt by the Dara soldier to sink the Lyucan ship. Takval winds up actually befriending (this may be too strong a word but I'm going to go with it)a couple enemy soldiers because he's moved by their compassion for their dragon. There's a truly moving scene...

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! These chapters are the ones where the Dara crews assemble an awesome shadow play to distract the Lyucu warriors while they break through the Lyucu ship's hull and attack from within. I'm blown away by the absolute nerve it takes to pull something like this off, and once again some entitled asshole forces his way in and fucking ruins everything. I'm...

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! In this section, we get some more time with Goztan as she explains who she is and gets some unexpected backup from Oga about her identity. Things turn a weird corner and it seems like she's about to rape him? Also, we get to see Thera again! She's taking the reins while also taking a step back and letting her fiance get some shine as well. Thanks f...

Thank you so much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! I'm finally starting the third book in the Dandelion Dynasty series, and it becomes very clear that I'm going to need to refresh my memory by revisiting the previous book so that I don't get too lost! We jump back in time and meet a new character from the Lyucu people, and we get to see what it was like for her to experience colonization by...

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this entire series! I can't believe this is it. The last available book in the series until sometime next year has been completed, and I'm sitting here absolutely dying to know what Thera is going to get up to, and dying to know how Phyro does at ruling, and so angry that Jia managed to take the sweet Risana completely off the board. I know that Jia is...

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! I can't believe there's only one more episode of this book and then it's over and nothing more until next year! AGH These chapters are absolutely action-packed and so intensely interesting to read. I love how much time this author devotes to explaining the intricacies of how the weapons used in this battle were formulated and built and wh...

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! In this one, we say goodbye to a legend.

Thank you so much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! So these are some really tough chapters. Well, the first of the two isn't so much, because it's full of good news and some really cool science, including the beginnings of the control of electricity. Which is rad and amazing to read because I am very unlettered in this subject and I have to assume that this isn't a completely inaccurate rep...

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! This was a really fascinating set of chapters, because we're getting to see the ways in which war influences the economy and research, which is something I'm so used to associating with WWII that I don't think about it as being a major factor before that era. I loved the way in which they're figuring out the garinafins, and I am eager to...

Thank you very much to Kyle for commissioning this episode! So now we're starting to get somewhere. I have been waiting with breath that is bated for Gin to get on the same damn page with everyone else in terms of fighting back and saving Dara, and it looks like we might have finally gotten there. All it fucking took was a barbecue of hundreds of people in front of the emperor, among whom is Zomi'...

Thank you to Kyle for commissioning this episode! So these chapters give a whole new perspective to the invasion of the Lyucu people into Dara, and I have to admit that I'm not ENTIRELY on the side of Dara. Not that a whole nation is responsible for the actions of a handful, but like...these dudes were repping for Mapidere, and if he were still alive by the time Tenryo invaded, I would be full-on...