Yay! Rain! Awakening naturally!

No. Wait. Shes's The Healer?!? The names just clicked. No wonder the other story alluded to a whole other story there that readers were meant to know when the names were mentioned. As if we were meant to know the significance... Ok. Now I'm super interested to know what happens next. The problem is that I'm using all the money I'm not meant to in buying the next few chapters. I'll be feeling the ramifications of negatives in my pocket for a while now. Who asked me to like reading so much?

Oh ho. This sounds familiar. I just finished reading the other book. Same world, same events, right? Or am I wrong? Which book came first? I'll admit that for some reason I hated the first 4 chapters and struggled to get past them. Don't ask me why. There wasn't really anything wrong with them. It just struck me as all wrong and not immersive. I even fell asleep. After that, things started getting more into gear. But now... Interesting. Very interesting.

Bah. Ethics

Beanie. I also didn't know what other things it is called. Toque is a new word for me, but I like collecting new words. Thanks for the new word.

I'm looking forward to hearing about how the Winter Beast was killed. If the events of the second volume are any reference, after the time skip, we will be slowly brought up to speed and receive all the details we are looking for.

I don't normally read stories of this genre, but was interested by the premise and different perspective on the world of shapeshifters. Although there are scattered grammatical and spelling errors here and there, they aren't jarring like they are in some other novels. They are easily overlooked and don't rudely wake you from the immersion. The MC has a relatively clear and distinct voice and her character is firm, although her 3D-ness does waver at times. The wavering isn't exactly the authors fault (or is it?). It's more to do with this setting and its inherent clichés (or so I believe, since the author has obviously written it in this way for a reason). I haven't been that interested in any of the other stories written by this author and even tried one or two of them before, but I might just give them another chance now.

I just had a thought. Since Rain hasn't been infected by the Spell yet as far as we know, I think it's very likely that Sunny may end up teaching her how to cultivate and ascend.

All my guesses were correct. Of the myriad options available, I was almost certain something like this all would happen. I just wasn't sure on the timing. The timing and pacing by he author in the way he writes are something I can learn from. Also the way he grabs reader attention and submerges them into the world in order for them to become immersed. Well crafted. I applaud. In the meantime, I'm going to keep all my theories to myself. It's interesting to see what everyone else is guessing though.

Perhaps the whole story will end up being concluded in one of the most clichéd lines ever: He woke up and it was all a dream...

My guess was correct! ay!

Then that would imply that one of those beings is in there... and perhaps is the Wishing Well.

I just gotta say. Sharp hair pins - if they're bladed and the blade is sharp and hasn't been covered - you lose hair and then the sharp hair pins falls out. Don't try it if you don't want a bad hair cut. If the blade is blunt and uncovered, it takes ages to cut anything with it but it does make an effective stabbing tool with sufficient force. Most hair pins will have no blade, which means it can't be used as a cutting tool, but might possibly be used as a prying or stabbing tool. Even then, most hair pins I've ever tried to do anything with, unless they were solid metal, tended to bend, break or crack easily. Most unhelpful. If you've ever used a sharp ended hair pin, pray that you don't stab yourself with it or scrape your scalp with it while you're putting up your own hair, someone else it putting up your hair for you, or you/someone is putting it into your hair do as decoration. It really hurts and if you aren't careful, you can easily get a wound infection, which stinks and hurts and may cause you to lose a small section of your hair that had to be shaved in order for the wound to be dealt with properly. And then anybody who comes near you can smell the infected wound and wrinkle their nose at you, thinking you're a dirty person who never showers or washes their hair, et cetera, so on and so forth. Sharp hair pins also have the troublesome problem of causing split ends when you're trying to stick them into you hair, because if they're sharp, they break your hair and ruin it. And sometimes when you've finally managed to get them in your hair and everything is fine, something happens which caused either you or another person to inexplicably be injured by that sharp tool in your hair. Such as you almost trip, somebody reaches out to steady you but they miss, instead getting either stabbed or scratched by the hairpins. Or a friend spots you and comes over to greet you by putting their arm around your shoulder or something and somehow they get stabbed and or scratched by said offending sharp ended hair pin. Or someone tells you to look up at just the right wrong angle and you stab yourself with that annoying sharp ended hairpin. There are some true stories in there. In short, hair pins are best made sturdy (but the sturdy ones also tend to be heavy, so look out for that) and blunt. It's safest for everyone, especially the wearer of the hair pin.

I think there are possibly a lot of 'miscorrected' worts that the auto correct stuffed up. It happens more to me when I'm typing too quickly while in the writing zone or I'm typing on my mobile. The mistakes don't look like purposeful ones caused by a misunderstanding of language.

Nice. I knew Cassie was so much more than she was letting on. 👍

The most obvious problem is the switch in perspective from first person to third person and then in the next chapter it looks like first person again. The other problems are the random switching of tenses between past and present (it's not quite consistent), the weird capitalizations vs non-capitalisation and occasional wrong word. But the main thing is that it is still readable. The story isn't bad so far, but changing of perspectives is really a big turn off.

This is the second time I've seen it, but shouldn't it be Mother Lu, rather than Lu's mum?

Ah. The battle cry that could cause 'prettification'

I wonder whether the group almost pass this loop of the Nightmare but then have to start from the start all over again when they were just about to make it. Just to make all the readers hold our heads and scream. And if Sunny loses his memory again or not. Or maybe, they really do pass the Nightmare on this go because we've already been in this Nightmare long enough and learn enough clues to satisfy the Sunny without him becoming Defiled. We probably need to learn more about Ariel, the god of oblivion, Weaver and how they did/didn't save themselves from war and mutual death (gods Vs daemons) because they had all become corrupted. Which means, what happened to the bodies of the gods and daemon's and how big were they if an Unholy Titan was the size of Ariel's Tomb pyramid. Wait, the pyramid in the Dreamworld had already been blasted open by something, so technically, those Dark Butterflies have a chance of emerging from the real tomb if those big families really disturb the tomb... that's a scary thought. Or maybe the cohort could bring us to the information source of the Defilement, so that all the readers become Defiled, but Sunny and Co continue onwards in ignorance by restarting the loop. Then while they remain free to return to the Dreamworld again with sufficient power to deal with the Skin Walker and search for a Gate to escape the Desert. Maybe they return to Antarctica to dominate a small section of it or find a way to escape. Or maybe they escape to a different part of the main world via a different Gate. Perhaps by the time they finish the Nightmare, the main world has been eaten up by the Dreamworld and amalgamated with it. And we skip toward the climax building section of the main plot. Perhaps, the Cohort learn how to transcend by themselves in this Nightmare and when they do defeat the Nightmare, they are not Saints, but the level above and already a powerful force directly able to deal with those powerful families. And then when they return to the main world, they become disaster bringers, because wherever they go, Gates open up and they have to live in the Dreamworld. And then Rain becomes a Sleeper and aces the first Nightmare, making Sunny proud. Perhaps the answer to preventing the main world from merging with the Dreamworld is on the moon, and many answers as to which god/daemon built the main world becomes apparent. Perhaps the Pyramid is their training ground for the moon. Or not. What if the Dreamworld, like the Pyramid, is one giant loop? What if the main world was stuck in a loop, awaiting the right person/people to wake up to the loop, emerge and save all the worlds from complete and utter destruction. What if one person ends up sacrificing himself in order to destroy the source of the Defilement and Corruption? What if... If all the 6-7 worlds are doomed for destruction, what happened to the original worlds where the gods came from? What if the gods were also the champions and last survivors of another world out in the Void and our cohort are about to be doomed to repeat their story, with their Flaws becoming tangible and appearing from the Void to become their Daemons? Because once you become strong enough to become a god, there must be a corresponding flaw. Then what if the Cohort have to find out how to deal with and enter the Void in order to find the original creator of this whole mess and end up finding... the Author. And then interrogate him on how to rebuild a peaceful world without Nightmares, corrupted creatures, and then they become the safeguarding guardians of a world without Corruption or Defilement, protecting the normal people from the Author who must be a Defiled creature if he is the Source. If Weaver's inheritance and bloodline can absorb all the other inheritance and bloodlines, what happens if Sunny ends up fighting and obtaining all the drops of ichor and various inheritances which are eaten by Weaver's inheritance? What if Weaver was/is Sunny's past/future self? Nah.

I feel like the story has a lot of jumps in the plot and logic. It ruins any of the immersion.