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Beneath the Dragoneye Moons #8
Beneath the Dragoneye Moons: New Horizons
Elaine's mission through the fairy ring went horribly wrong, and she finds herself in Pallos once again - over 20,000 years in the future. The only things she has are her friends, her magic, and the clothes on her back. Fighting their way out of the wilderness, they quickly meet Iona, a wandering paladin of the Valkyrie order. She's heading to the School of Sorcery and Spellcraft, and Elaine joins her. To learn wizardry. To figure out her place in the world, and where she wants to go next. To get her third class. To kiss cute women. To eat some tasty mangos.
853 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 14, 2022
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January 27, 2024
Not good
Expositional waterboarding from an author who seems super excited to destroy a carefully crafted and beloved world in favor of resetting to a thinly veiled, exhaustively described Harry Potter knockoff.
Which is their prerogative, but it comes across as trying to push a square peg in a round hole without realizing or caring how much has to break for that to happen.
But nope. Plot gotta happen so Elaine can go to low budget hogwarts.
The main characters make baffling decisions to move the plot along right from the beginning. After getting thrown thousands of years into the future, where everyone and everything our four protagonists know has suddenly been traumatically torn from them forever... the four friends almost immediately are like hey let's split up in a completely unkown and hostile world and meet once a year or so! Before we even know any of the new world languages! Or have other friends! Or know what's safe! When one of us will be actively hunted for what we are! When literally anyone else would be clinging together for emotional support and security and their only cultural lifeline!
And that's just the beginning.
Broke the series for me, but I really liked what came before! My recommendation would be to treat book 7 as the last, despite its lack of
story resolution or finale.
Expositional waterboarding from an author who seems super excited to destroy a carefully crafted and beloved world in favor of resetting to a thinly veiled, exhaustively described Harry Potter knockoff.
Which is their prerogative, but it comes across as trying to push a square peg in a round hole without realizing or caring how much has to break for that to happen.
But nope. Plot gotta happen so Elaine can go to low budget hogwarts.
The main characters make baffling decisions to move the plot along right from the beginning. After getting thrown thousands of years into the future, where everyone and everything our four protagonists know has suddenly been traumatically torn from them forever... the four friends almost immediately are like hey let's split up in a completely unkown and hostile world and meet once a year or so! Before we even know any of the new world languages! Or have other friends! Or know what's safe! When one of us will be actively hunted for what we are! When literally anyone else would be clinging together for emotional support and security and their only cultural lifeline!
And that's just the beginning.
Broke the series for me, but I really liked what came before! My recommendation would be to treat book 7 as the last, despite its lack of
story resolution or finale.
June 3, 2023
A school chapter
Really I find a school arc to just be lazy writing, nothing that furthered the plot was worthwhile and could have been done in other ways.
Really I find a school arc to just be lazy writing, nothing that furthered the plot was worthwhile and could have been done in other ways.
February 29, 2024
I love learning just as much as Elaine but watching someone else learning? It’s a bit boring. In saying that, I love, love, LOVE that Elaine and Iona have finally connected with one another.
20,000 years passing by while the group were in Fae Land was a huge blow my mind moment so a huge kudos to Selkie Myth for writing this so beautifully. Again, all the info dump and the studying was boring so that’s why I could only give this book 3 stars.
20,000 years passing by while the group were in Fae Land was a huge blow my mind moment so a huge kudos to Selkie Myth for writing this so beautifully. Again, all the info dump and the studying was boring so that’s why I could only give this book 3 stars.
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January 16, 2023
boring 2nd half
I enjoyed the book through her attempt for a scholarship, but it got boring after that. Nothing all that interesting happened. A minute summary of her first days and classes and then too much detail about biomancy. I really don’t like the romance in any of these books. It’s basically just Elaine getting off or thinking about it and it’s just kind of boring. Iona is much better than that horrible elf guy she gave it up to. I really don’t like any of it though.
I enjoyed the book through her attempt for a scholarship, but it got boring after that. Nothing all that interesting happened. A minute summary of her first days and classes and then too much detail about biomancy. I really don’t like the romance in any of these books. It’s basically just Elaine getting off or thinking about it and it’s just kind of boring. Iona is much better than that horrible elf guy she gave it up to. I really don’t like any of it though.
April 12, 2025
I like this series but this volume? Just skip the whole second half
You can easily skip chapter 44 to the end, except the very last chapter, and miss absolutely nothing. Well, except a long, drawn-out, yet wild and glaring contradiction to what biomancers are supposedly allowed to do.
You can easily skip chapter 44 to the end, except the very last chapter, and miss absolutely nothing. Well, except a long, drawn-out, yet wild and glaring contradiction to what biomancers are supposedly allowed to do.
August 22, 2023
This instalment casts a mesmerizing spell, transporting Elaine through time into an astonishing future. Armed with magic, friends, and a thirst for self-discovery, she navigates a world brimming with both technology and enchantment.
Elaine's journey, triggered by a mission gone awry, unfolds in a captivating blend of action and introspection. Meeting the valiant paladin Iona, their shared pilgrimage to the School of Sorcery and Spellcraft creates a heartwarming narrative woven with friendship and purpose.
The narrative effortlessly combines magical world-building with genuine character relationships. Elaine's pursuit of knowledge and personal fulfillment resonates deeply, making her futuristic odyssey all the more engaging.
While new readers might momentarily grapple with the established universe, the series' charm and multifaceted characters remain inviting.
Elaine's journey, triggered by a mission gone awry, unfolds in a captivating blend of action and introspection. Meeting the valiant paladin Iona, their shared pilgrimage to the School of Sorcery and Spellcraft creates a heartwarming narrative woven with friendship and purpose.
The narrative effortlessly combines magical world-building with genuine character relationships. Elaine's pursuit of knowledge and personal fulfillment resonates deeply, making her futuristic odyssey all the more engaging.
While new readers might momentarily grapple with the established universe, the series' charm and multifaceted characters remain inviting.
March 4, 2023
I think my favorite book of the entire series. Loved how in-depth it went into the science, really enjoyed school life, loved the Iona relationship, Auri continues to be adorable.
September 24, 2023
I really, really enjoyed the first several books. I'm still reading probably because of the sunk cost fallacy. But honestly "pretty-sauraus" "nibble-sauraus". Over 50 mentions of the f-ing mangos. The long lingering kisses that make her late for finals and who in the F sits on their partner, straddling them, facing eye to eye and making out WHILE opening their birthday presents in front of a couple hundred people (edit. Many people had left by then meaning a smaller group which in my view makes it even skeezier). It doesn't seem like her character and it's rude AF. Creepy even. Imagine how uncomfortable this would be to watch at a party when it is the center of attention. (Also her GF is 7 feet tall. Even sitting up straight like it says in the back hour could they possibly be sitting eye to eye?)
June 12, 2023
Nope. I'm done.
This series has enough problems, but I am not putting up with a complete reset. This time jump is just lazy and I do not even remotely care enough to try to follow the new storyline. I am done with the series and the author.
This series has enough problems, but I am not putting up with a complete reset. This time jump is just lazy and I do not even remotely care enough to try to follow the new storyline. I am done with the series and the author.
March 4, 2024
I loved seeing Elaine finally meet up with Iona and how she was integrating into the new modern world and figuring out what to do with her third class, but I had to skip so much of the last part of the book since it went into way too much detail about . A good 50 pages could have been skipped, IMO.
However, I'm still looking forward to her next adventures once she's done being a student and goes out into the world to find Night again.
However, I'm still looking forward to her next adventures once she's done being a student and goes out into the world to find Night again.
October 28, 2024
A hard slog
This book is extremely focused on going to school, and it basically is a remaining if a modern day university. Pages and pages of classes, stats, skills, organs, bones, sex, drinking, pranks, cheating, etc. Add in the soap box is returned with more comments about sexual consent, and an entire chapter detailing a transgenders struggles with being in the wrong body, and how Elaineis the only one who understands them and will fix them (again, not the right venue for this, I don't need an essay on what sexual consent is, and I don't need an essay on what a transgender teen is, this is a fantasy book, and this completely destroys the immersion. Aside from that, this is a young kid, who has never told her (soon to be his) parents about or apparently any other medical professional about her/his issues, so Elaine in her ignorance chooses to unilaterally be the expert on this with no training or forethought on the issue, and sterilizes the kid instead of talking with someone who might be able to do this properly, and we're supposed to chear for her?)
The whole book can essentially be boiled down to, Elaine goes to school, numbers go up, and she has lots of sex with her lady lover... not my favorite in the series.
This book is extremely focused on going to school, and it basically is a remaining if a modern day university. Pages and pages of classes, stats, skills, organs, bones, sex, drinking, pranks, cheating, etc. Add in the soap box is returned with more comments about sexual consent, and an entire chapter detailing a transgenders struggles with being in the wrong body, and how Elaineis the only one who understands them and will fix them (again, not the right venue for this, I don't need an essay on what sexual consent is, and I don't need an essay on what a transgender teen is, this is a fantasy book, and this completely destroys the immersion. Aside from that, this is a young kid, who has never told her (soon to be his) parents about or apparently any other medical professional about her/his issues, so Elaine in her ignorance chooses to unilaterally be the expert on this with no training or forethought on the issue, and sterilizes the kid instead of talking with someone who might be able to do this properly, and we're supposed to chear for her?)
The whole book can essentially be boiled down to, Elaine goes to school, numbers go up, and she has lots of sex with her lady lover... not my favorite in the series.
October 24, 2022
After leaving us with the first truly impactful chapters at the end of the previous novel, this just falls flat on its face. I was hoping we’d finally broken through the level of emotional flatness that has held this series back (in comparison to something like the wandering inn), but no. Just back to the same old same old without any consequences.
This would normally lead me to give it three stars, but even worse than being emotionless is being boring, and this one is boring. We have endless lists, meaningless two paragraph vignettes, a gender reassignment surgery, and some predictable plotting, and at the end all we have are
I’ll keep reading but I’m not excited for it.
This would normally lead me to give it three stars, but even worse than being emotionless is being boring, and this one is boring. We have endless lists, meaningless two paragraph vignettes, a gender reassignment surgery, and some predictable plotting, and at the end all we have are
I’ll keep reading but I’m not excited for it.
March 25, 2023
I'm not really into the developments here. It felt really forced and I had a lot of questions regarding Elaine's motivations and her willingness to be separated from her friends. Still, story progresses. A bit repetitive and the lengthy school segments on biomancy specifics got tiresome. I don't think this series needed a magic school episode.
April 24, 2024
Ouch. This one.....was not good.
So far I have been a supporter of the books 1-7 but this one took a turn in the wrong direction. Pretty much just plot scrapped the entire books 1-7 with time outrageous time skip, making previous interactions and friendships near meaningless.
I am indifferent about school arcs but this took it to a whole different level. Like it was a trudge....it could have lasted maybe 10-15 chapters for world building purposes not 60+. I liked the fact that Elane was making her own path. Now that she is getting a formal education it detracts from one of the major characteristics that makes her unique.
Lastly the romance....ugh. Come on! I know Iona is built up to be a soulmate from the epilogues but her introduction made her interactions shallow. Like the 1st person you meet in what is a new world is the person you fall in love with? This undercuts every other character introduction knowing it is not going to be as strong of a relationship.
Lastly, lastly why bring along Julius and Artemis, just to push them aside and outgrow them?
Lastly lastly lastly, how would you feel if you were a parent and had an 8 year old and you come home to find out a random surgeon performed a sex change on your kid without your knowledge....yeah not great. Elane did just that.
So far I have been a supporter of the books 1-7 but this one took a turn in the wrong direction. Pretty much just plot scrapped the entire books 1-7 with time outrageous time skip, making previous interactions and friendships near meaningless.
I am indifferent about school arcs but this took it to a whole different level. Like it was a trudge....it could have lasted maybe 10-15 chapters for world building purposes not 60+. I liked the fact that Elane was making her own path. Now that she is getting a formal education it detracts from one of the major characteristics that makes her unique.
Lastly the romance....ugh. Come on! I know Iona is built up to be a soulmate from the epilogues but her introduction made her interactions shallow. Like the 1st person you meet in what is a new world is the person you fall in love with? This undercuts every other character introduction knowing it is not going to be as strong of a relationship.
Lastly, lastly why bring along Julius and Artemis, just to push them aside and outgrow them?
Lastly lastly lastly, how would you feel if you were a parent and had an 8 year old and you come home to find out a random surgeon performed a sex change on your kid without your knowledge....yeah not great. Elane did just that.
April 11, 2025
Another excellent volume.
Elaine and company are suddenly 20,000 years into their future, fortunately, they meet Iona and she helps get them adapted.
Artemis and Julius join the Hunting guild. Amber (who was Autumn) does merchant things.
Elaine joins Iona at the School thanks to a combat scholarship.
Elaine takes Student, then Biomancer as her 3rd class before ending the novel with her (theoretical) final class of Bookwyrm.
Along the way she learns Biomancy and improves Iona and then herself. There is a recovery period, and the novel ends after she benchmarks her new body.
The final chapter shows us other folks reacting to Elaine's presence in the world. Elaine's medical manuscripts are still around and have been expanded by others to include all the species on Pallos. So presumably she will make use of her Signature to prove she is that Elaine in the next volume.
Elaine and company are suddenly 20,000 years into their future, fortunately, they meet Iona and she helps get them adapted.
Artemis and Julius join the Hunting guild. Amber (who was Autumn) does merchant things.
Elaine joins Iona at the School thanks to a combat scholarship.
Elaine takes Student, then Biomancer as her 3rd class before ending the novel with her (theoretical) final class of Bookwyrm.
Along the way she learns Biomancy and improves Iona and then herself. There is a recovery period, and the novel ends after she benchmarks her new body.
The final chapter shows us other folks reacting to Elaine's presence in the world. Elaine's medical manuscripts are still around and have been expanded by others to include all the species on Pallos. So presumably she will make use of her Signature to prove she is that Elaine in the next volume.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 9, 2023
not certain
Book 7 felt like filler most of this book, book 8 again felt like filler. I’m not certain how this can be wrapped up in one more book. I don’t mind the time skip but so many chapter after chapter of useless skill and class descriptions. There’s 5-6 chapters of just augments on the body for a better Elaine. Im really only sticking with this because I want to see how it needs up but this seems to have jumped the shark. I wish I had skipped ahead to read these end book reviews to see if others had a similar opinion before starting this series. Such a shame this was going to be Maurer as a favorite but seems like the author didn’t know what to do with the story in the end.
Book 7 felt like filler most of this book, book 8 again felt like filler. I’m not certain how this can be wrapped up in one more book. I don’t mind the time skip but so many chapter after chapter of useless skill and class descriptions. There’s 5-6 chapters of just augments on the body for a better Elaine. Im really only sticking with this because I want to see how it needs up but this seems to have jumped the shark. I wish I had skipped ahead to read these end book reviews to see if others had a similar opinion before starting this series. Such a shame this was going to be Maurer as a favorite but seems like the author didn’t know what to do with the story in the end.
June 8, 2023
Slow read but fascinating
I can't say that I know enough about the human body to know how factual this book, and series, are. The way it's written is fascinating, technical, and by that only makes a lot of it sound plausible. Even if it's mostly fantasy, it makes sense in this series.
The trauma that the characters go through had me crying with them, and for them when they relegated grieving to be something for later processing when they felt safe. School is fun and has many new adventures.
The chemistry is fun too. Auri has some fun adventures and new goals, and Fenrir's detective side is cute.
Regarding my last review, AMBER is explained quickly, and my panic abated.
I can't say that I know enough about the human body to know how factual this book, and series, are. The way it's written is fascinating, technical, and by that only makes a lot of it sound plausible. Even if it's mostly fantasy, it makes sense in this series.
The trauma that the characters go through had me crying with them, and for them when they relegated grieving to be something for later processing when they felt safe. School is fun and has many new adventures.
The chemistry is fun too. Auri has some fun adventures and new goals, and Fenrir's detective side is cute.
Regarding my last review, AMBER is explained quickly, and my panic abated.
August 14, 2023
I was really unsure about this book, I had become disenchanted with the series and was only trying this book to finally see what happened when Elaine and Iona met.
I wasn’t impressed with the first few chapters, the pages of inane notifications weren’t a great start, but the story did improve and gave me hope the Time travelling reset might not be a complete disaster.
Overall this was a big improvement on the last few books, although it really could have been several hundred pages shorter. There are big chunks of skill/ability/biomancy descriptions that shouldn’t have been included.
If possible I would have given 3.5 stars.
I wasn’t impressed with the first few chapters, the pages of inane notifications weren’t a great start, but the story did improve and gave me hope the Time travelling reset might not be a complete disaster.
Overall this was a big improvement on the last few books, although it really could have been several hundred pages shorter. There are big chunks of skill/ability/biomancy descriptions that shouldn’t have been included.
If possible I would have given 3.5 stars.
May 1, 2025
The advancement of the timeline is fun. I love the fact that she's the mother of modern medicine, and that her name has become the default word for healer. Such a great payoff from the first 7 books.
The first half of this book is great, but the second half dragged a bit. This author also has issues writing social issues. It feels very preformative and has the subtlety of a hammer. It has always been her biggest weakness though.
I don't love the Hogwarts setting, looking forward to us dealing with more interesting conflicts in this new world. The new love interest is good and I'm glad they're together, the soul mate storyline that has been building since the first book is fun.
The first half of this book is great, but the second half dragged a bit. This author also has issues writing social issues. It feels very preformative and has the subtlety of a hammer. It has always been her biggest weakness though.
I don't love the Hogwarts setting, looking forward to us dealing with more interesting conflicts in this new world. The new love interest is good and I'm glad they're together, the soul mate storyline that has been building since the first book is fun.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 25, 2023
Jumping forward a huge amount of time through fae, while not exactly original, was a good idea. It freshened up the story, and I always have likes school based ones. It is also very much a slice-of-life litRPG story, stats not being overly important, but class and skill selection did take an important role. While I enjoyed such for the most part, it did get boring for a few parts, most importantly the section on base classes and the biomancy upgrade near the end. Still, an entertaining read and looking forward to the next parts in her life.
June 15, 2023
Help me read more books
Ok, so this piece of the story was considerably than I expected what with the ending of the previous book. It also answered the question as to why the goblins and the ants couldn't meet on the battlefield. (too bad that). It also raises new questions, especially those related to the organizations that existed before they went into the fairy ring. Hoping those get resolved in the next book. Overall, a pretty good part of the overall story arc. I'm no longer hesitant about reading more in the series.
Ok, so this piece of the story was considerably than I expected what with the ending of the previous book. It also answered the question as to why the goblins and the ants couldn't meet on the battlefield. (too bad that). It also raises new questions, especially those related to the organizations that existed before they went into the fairy ring. Hoping those get resolved in the next book. Overall, a pretty good part of the overall story arc. I'm no longer hesitant about reading more in the series.
October 1, 2023
Awesome continuation, but…
I LOVE that Elaine’s story is continuing, however the amount of time spent on biomancy compared to what actually took place is tiresome. MULTIPLE chapters spent on dead end concepts not used was an absolute waste of time.
Why spend so much time talking about certain topics,and not use them???
I love this series, but this installment has me questioning its longevity…
I LOVE that Elaine’s story is continuing, however the amount of time spent on biomancy compared to what actually took place is tiresome. MULTIPLE chapters spent on dead end concepts not used was an absolute waste of time.
Why spend so much time talking about certain topics,and not use them???
I love this series, but this installment has me questioning its longevity…
May 2, 2024
So in this book we're ditching 7 books of world- and side character-building. This could have been a brave decision, to explore a new world... if we didn't go into a 2 book long budget Harry Potter school arc, with no purpose or plot.
About 80% of books 7 & 8 is fully skippable. Walls of text on potential classes, magic systems, creatures,... none of which we will ever encounter.
Iona and Elaine finally meet, but other than that nothing really happens here.
About 80% of books 7 & 8 is fully skippable. Walls of text on potential classes, magic systems, creatures,... none of which we will ever encounter.
Iona and Elaine finally meet, but other than that nothing really happens here.
June 24, 2024
needed a few more rounds of editing
This book had one very overly long school arc with too much detail no one could need or keep straight and unlike previous books it didn’t give me any great new characters or emotional interactions. Most of the second half of the book was incredibly dry. I will keep reading the series because I loved the previous books and I hope the next one is better.
This book had one very overly long school arc with too much detail no one could need or keep straight and unlike previous books it didn’t give me any great new characters or emotional interactions. Most of the second half of the book was incredibly dry. I will keep reading the series because I loved the previous books and I hope the next one is better.
October 2, 2025
Yeah I think it's confirmed the author had little direction where to go with the story in the previous book (web chapters) and continued with little direction here. I don't know if I appreciate the full anatomy detail but it seemed like a heck of a lot of effort to lecture us on biology. I say lecture as so much of it was class room or study and not practical application. So she sits in school, oh look another time jump just two years though, and... small hints at a plot to come?
December 12, 2023
We FOUND NIGHT
We found night we're coming for him and it's f****** huge. I'm so glad that this is happening like. The rest of the story is great and all and I loved all the like. A research that went in 2. The biomancy but night is the real big player in this book. And hopefully in the next book as well. Like that's that's the key to making this book absurdly good.
We found night we're coming for him and it's f****** huge. I'm so glad that this is happening like. The rest of the story is great and all and I loved all the like. A research that went in 2. The biomancy but night is the real big player in this book. And hopefully in the next book as well. Like that's that's the key to making this book absurdly good.
April 1, 2024
A bit of a slog towards the end
This was the first book in the series that almost made me want to give up on it. Elaine adventures into modifying her body and the descriptions. And vacillations as she improves. Her plan board me to tears. I ended up skipping the last 2 chapters of it. And moving on with no real reduction in story value.
This was the first book in the series that almost made me want to give up on it. Elaine adventures into modifying her body and the descriptions. And vacillations as she improves. Her plan board me to tears. I ended up skipping the last 2 chapters of it. And moving on with no real reduction in story value.
May 22, 2024
There are a few points in this book where Selkie gets absolutely 'lost in the LitRPG sauce' when it comes to classing up and I had to skip a few chapters because they were simply too crunchy. Five stars otherwise.
I was worried about the plot twist from the last book making this a very big change of pace, but it works despite how much I miss some of the older characters.
I was worried about the plot twist from the last book making this a very big change of pace, but it works despite how much I miss some of the older characters.
November 5, 2024
Just a dash of plagiarism?
This book felt like small parts of the story were just blatant rip-offs of other authors’ works. Names maybe chosen in homage of their books? I’m pretty sure I could find almost word for word examples from Rothfuss in regards to sigildry and sympathy. Maybe I missed it in the earlier books, but I noticed it a few other times in this one.
This book felt like small parts of the story were just blatant rip-offs of other authors’ works. Names maybe chosen in homage of their books? I’m pretty sure I could find almost word for word examples from Rothfuss in regards to sigildry and sympathy. Maybe I missed it in the earlier books, but I noticed it a few other times in this one.
May 18, 2025
My least favorite volume so far. The school arc as a whole is kinda meh, but not offensively so. But the last few chapters, oh my god the last few chapters. They are such a slog to get through. Just chapter after chapter after chapter of nothing but Elaine debating this option or that option for a decision she has to make. Just so much detail in what could have easily been 1 chapter or less. Just skip from about chapter 44 or 45 to the last chapter.
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