Anastasia’s Comments (group member since Dec 19, 2024)

Anastasia’s comments from the Bookish Challenges group.

Third Stop: Crimson Marshes

- Read a book that builds suspense, tension, or creeping danger.

Remember When by Nora Roberts
Date read: 22/11/2025
How it fits: Suspense builds a s Eve and her team race to hunt down a killer and recover stolen diamonds

The Blank Chapter 📝
The Tomorrow Page ⏳

Prompt: Read a book set in the future.
Outcome: The book flickers with visions of what is yet to come

Book/Author: Remember When by Nora Roberts
Date completed: 22/11/2025
Task: Read a book set in the future.
How it fits: Part 2 of the book is set in 2059

Trident of Tides

- Read a book with a journey or voyage.

- Read a book set near water.

- Read a book with a transformative journey.
Vinyl Resting Place by Olivia Blacke
Date read: 22/11/2025
How it fits: Juniper Jessup returns to her home town of Cedar River to open a record and coffee shop with her sisters after losing her job in IT

Second stop : Ashen Peaks where jagged cliffs and scorched lands echo with distant roars.
3 Monsters Defeated

1. 🦴 Revenant Scholar message 27
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2. 💀 The Bone Jester message 29
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3. 🪓 Troll of the Fallen Bridge message 30
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Defeat of 🪓 Troll of the Fallen Bridge

Once a guardian of passage, now a brute who demands stories as toll. Cross him without a tale, and you’ll never cross again.

Required Weapon: Poisoned Vial
Earned in message 17 after the defeat of the Wraith of the Hollow Pages
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Reward Weapon: Flamebrand Sword

Defeat of 💀 The Bone Jester

Once a court entertainer who mocked fate too often. Now he juggles skulls and riddles, laughing through eternity.

Required Weapon: Spiked Mace
Earned in message 12
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Reward Weapon: Frostfang Blade

Poisoned Vial

- Read a book involving deceit or lies.
Murder Down Under by Arthur W. Upfield
Date read: 20/11/2025
How it fits: Bony has to sift through many lies and cover ups after a man is missing. Mr. Jelly lies to his daughters about his outings.

- Read a book with a plot twist.
Undead Incorporated by Steve Higgs
Date read: 23/11/2025
How it fits: Plot twist is that multiple faked deaths

- Read a book with a villain you loved to hate.

Defeat of 🦴 Revenant Scholar

He died surrounded by his notes, doomed to revise forever. His quill scratches parchment though his body is long gone.

Required Weapon: Golden Talon

Reward Weapon: Silver Stake

Golden Talon earned in message 22
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Warfang Axe

- Read a book with an animal or creature.
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Date read: 21/11/2025
How it fits: Features dragons

- Read a book where survival is key.
The Armour of God: The Power of Anastasia Aaronson by Steve Higgs Read 19/11/2025 How it fits: Anastasia needs to survive being capatured from demons

- Read a book with a daring adventure.

The Living Codex 📖
The Blank Chapter 📝

Prompt: Read a book published this year.
Outcome: The book’s pages fill with your own choices, recording the present as history.

Star-Crossed Egg Tarts by Jennifer J. Chow
Date read: 18/11/2025
How it fits: First published January 21, 2025

Silver Stake

- Read a gothic or horror story.
Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton Read 18/11/2025 How it fits: MPG Horror

- Read a book with suspenseful or creepy elements.

- Read a book with a haunted or eerie setting.

Phoenix Feather Pen

- Read a 5-star favorite.
After the Funeral by Agatha Christie Read 17/11/2025

- Read a book that inspired you.

- Read a book you loved so much you would recommend it immediately
Sweet Briar Rose by Alex Smith Read 21/11/2025

Book: After the Funeral
Author: Agatha Christie
Date completed: 17/11/2025
Task: 3. A book that makes you feel comforted or sentimental.
How it fits: My favourite author that I have read many times and always feel comforted when rereading her books

Book: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
Author: Lewis Carroll
Date completed: 16/11/2025
Task: Level 1 -2. A middle-grade or Young Adult book.
How it fits: Young Adult MPG

Book: Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914
Author: Carolyn Meyer
Date completed: 15/11/2025
Task: Level 3 2. A book featuring a diary, letters, or other reflective storytelling.
How it fits: Written in the form of a diary

✅Golden Talon used in message 27 for Defeat of 🦴 Revenant Scholar

- Read a romance or emotional story.
Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley
Date read: 14/11/2025
How it fits: MPG Romance

- Read a book that explores friendship.

- Read a book that tugged at your heart.
Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914 by Carolyn Meyer Read 15/11/2025 How it fits: A sad story

Second stop : Ashen Peaks where jagged cliffs and scorched lands echo with distant roars.
- Read a book featuring a dangerous journey, climb, or extreme adventure.
Knuckle Bones by Alex Smith
Date read: 13/11/2025
How it fits: Features dangerous journeys through underground tunnels

Book: Knuckle Bones
Author: Alex Smith
Date completed: 13/11/2025
Task: Level 3 3. A book with a character reconnecting with their past
How it fits: The killers past and his reconnection with it compels him to carry out rituals

Dagger of Whispers

- Read a book with a secret or betrayal.

- Read a book that surprised you.
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean
Date read: 13/11/2025
How it fits: The terrible deeds carried out in the name of science were surprising

- Read a book that changed the way you thought about something.
History of God: A Story of the Beginning of Everything by Guy Steven Needler
Date read: 11/11/2025
How it fits: Changes how we think about origin and our purpose

Fiona wrote: "✅

happy belated birthday :)"

Thank you Fiona