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Starting off with Elspeth Spindle, a resident of Burden, who as a child wandered into the mist that seems to always be around the township. While in the mist Elspeth ended up contracting "the fever". It's said that people who survive the fever end up having a magical ability afterwards.  From the beginning of the story Elspeth has what seems like someone/something else in her mind, she can hear a voice. More than her own thought process, but less than another person. The magic caused by the mist is something that is feared by commoners, and is something that is hunted and by the ‘physicians’ locked up and destroyed. As I progressed into the book there is an introduction to two different sources of magic. There is magic that comes from surviving the fever, which is not completely understood. The other sources  of noninfected/fever magic is provided by enchanted cards, each card has a different colour, and symbol associated with their ability, and detriment. ...

Okay, so I think I have finally sat down and chosen a book that has piqued my interest. I have been humming and hawing, attempting to decide what genre would be next.  I am very much a mood reader, this creates a challenge in finding my next read. I can be excited for a book publication, but when I find that I have a moment, or a perfectly time reading gap,  I may not actually be in the mood to read that book. This all means that I have an aggressively growing to #toberead pile. I have a book from one of my favorite authors, that was published last year, I paid to have the book on publication day, and I have yet to read it. Everytime I attempt to read the book I read the first chapter, and end up putting the book down to read a completely different genre. I suppose at the same time I find myself discovering and rediscovering some old and new favorite genres. I started reading mostly police procedurals, it specifically had to be police procedurals, and nothing else. I found t...