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Golden Daughter #4
The Dying Moon
The unthinkable has happened. Her mistress has been taken from her, kidnapped and spirited away into a realm Sairu cannot enter. Or can she?
In the epic conclusion to the GOLDEN DAUGHTER adventure, the Dragon unleashes deadly force upon mortal and immortal worlds alike. Harnessing the power of the Dream Walkers, he breaks through the gates of Hulan’s garden, and fire rains down from the sky.
Can one brave young woman, armed only with her courage and training, face these supernatural forces and rescue the mistress she has sworn to protect? Can anyone prevent the ultimate destruction of the very heavens above and the silencing of the Spheres’ eternal song?
In the epic conclusion to the GOLDEN DAUGHTER adventure, the Dragon unleashes deadly force upon mortal and immortal worlds alike. Harnessing the power of the Dream Walkers, he breaks through the gates of Hulan’s garden, and fire rains down from the sky.
Can one brave young woman, armed only with her courage and training, face these supernatural forces and rescue the mistress she has sworn to protect? Can anyone prevent the ultimate destruction of the very heavens above and the silencing of the Spheres’ eternal song?
156 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 12, 2016
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About the author
Anne Elisabeth Stengl
20 books806 followersAnne Elisabeth Stengl makes her home in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she lives with her husband, Rohan, a passel of cats, and one long-suffering dog. When she's not writing, she enjoys Shakespeare, opera, and tea, and studies piano, painting, and pastry baking. She studied illustration at Grace College and English literature at Campbell University. She is the author of the TALES OF GOLDSTONE WOOD, which currently includes seven novels and two novellas, with plenty more works due to release over the next few years. Her novels HEARTLESS, VEILED ROSE, and DRAGONWITCH have each been honored with a Christy Award, and STARFLOWER was voted winner of the 2013 Clive Staples Award.
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December 24, 2016
Hmmm
While the previous books fascinated me with unique fantasy, this one had uncomfortably Biblical comparisons. The cover is beautiful until you read the story, then it is terrible and heartbreaking. While a satisfactory ending for the main characters, the epilogue opens a new story. It feels incomplete.
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While the previous books fascinated me with unique fantasy, this one had uncomfortably Biblical comparisons. The cover is beautiful until you read the story, then it is terrible and heartbreaking. While a satisfactory ending for the main characters, the epilogue opens a new story. It feels incomplete.
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YA
July 7, 2018
I almost felt giddy at the end of this one to see a long-awaited character from the first book arise!
This was the final part of book 7 and what a ride! I thoroughly enjoyed this one as much as all the parts of book 7 and the rest of the series!
Excelsior! (ever upward)
This was the final part of book 7 and what a ride! I thoroughly enjoyed this one as much as all the parts of book 7 and the rest of the series!
Excelsior! (ever upward)
December 1, 2018
The Dying Moon serves as a beautiful, haunting, mysterious ending fitting for Golden Daughter.
As a whole, I found Golden Daughter to be every bit the epic that was promised. It weaves in new aspects of many other cultures and worlds not explored in the previous volumes, while retaining old favorite Eanrin to be a guide of sorts through the tale. The Golden Daughters were fascinating, the Khla clan only slightly less.
I never did quite grow to understand the Dream Walkers, which would probably be my main dislike about this book; it just wasn't quite clear what they were doing, what they were representing.
Sad to say, this is the last Goldstone book for the foreseeable future. I really do hope Anne Elisabeth Stengl can someday return, for there are quite a few loose threads here that could use tying up, as well as ones from the other books.
As a whole, I found Golden Daughter to be every bit the epic that was promised. It weaves in new aspects of many other cultures and worlds not explored in the previous volumes, while retaining old favorite Eanrin to be a guide of sorts through the tale. The Golden Daughters were fascinating, the Khla clan only slightly less.
I never did quite grow to understand the Dream Walkers, which would probably be my main dislike about this book; it just wasn't quite clear what they were doing, what they were representing.
Sad to say, this is the last Goldstone book for the foreseeable future. I really do hope Anne Elisabeth Stengl can someday return, for there are quite a few loose threads here that could use tying up, as well as ones from the other books.
May 17, 2018
What a strange series. I'm still not sure how I feel about this series of stories. I liked them, but I didn't get them. I just didn't get the whole moon and sun and stars being alive thing. I think I got the dream world being the spirit realm, but not sure how the "dream walkers" were able to breach that spirit realm - what, in them, gave them the ability to do that? Still don't understand the cat. Why did they make Lume's warrior who protected Suria a cat? He could change into a man, but, as he said, he was a cat. I liked the battle between light and darkness, although there was A LOT of darkness in these stories.
She left an opening for more to come at the end.
This is a clean read.
She left an opening for more to come at the end.
This is a clean read.
January 8, 2019
The last
I have now read each book from this forest series. I am unsure of my thoughts, though the writing is, as ever, clever and engaging, the battles, epic and poignant, and the characters worthy and just a bit tragic... Still a very good read.
I have now read each book from this forest series. I am unsure of my thoughts, though the writing is, as ever, clever and engaging, the battles, epic and poignant, and the characters worthy and just a bit tragic... Still a very good read.
June 19, 2016
The epic climax of this novel never fails to thrill me . . . and bring tears. Soooo good!
And I'm in love with Jovann and Sunan. And Eanrin, of course!
And I'm in love with Jovann and Sunan. And Eanrin, of course!
August 25, 2017
Please see my review of all four volumes under The Crouching Shadow.
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