OK, I can deal with Thank God I’m A Country Boy. But I’ll never be old MacDonald. Farming, even just hay, sounds like too much manual labor for me. Hell, I struggle just to mow the lawn. When I had a bigger, flatter lawn, I had a riding mower. I’d kill myself on the hills on my lawn now with a rider.
Yeah, I’ve done that a couple times.
Bobby will recover. And you know how I treat the bad guys. Although, this actually being the first story, I was pretty tame.
Michael knows how Jeff is and can take whatever is thrown at him Unfortunately for Jeff, most of what he throws bounces right back at him, as you'll soon learn.
Things have been back to normal for a while, it's a little over a week after Sam's birthday before much happened. Let's take a look at what's going on now.
Scott
Another boring day at school is over, I get on the bus and take my usual seat because Virgil isn't there yet. As he's getting on the bus, Becky Lewis asks me if it's OK if she sits with me. I say OK. Virgil gives me a questioning look. All I can do is shrug my shoulders and wait to see what she wants.
"You hang out a lot
I think you explained it sufficiently in your previous comment. Borrowing a single name from another’s work would be a stretch to call it plagiarism. Think of all the lawsuits the first person to use John Smith in a book could file!
We knew the meeting had to come. Too bad I’m already up waaaaaay too late. I’ll have to finish my binge read tomor… Oh wait, it is tomorrow. Later today.
I always thought that was a dwarf capability.
A nod to Christopher Paolini’s Eragon, I assume?
I echo @Sherye Story Reader’s comment about dragons. I have a handful of dragons and knights from Medieval Times. And a tattoo that is part dragon. And obviously caught the reference to Saphira.
It wouldn’t make a lot of sense to have two disparate stories about two young men if their paths were never to cross, aside from the short interval in Dakota’s class. One story about just Dakota and another about just Connor makes sense if they never hook up. The fact that we’re learning about both Art essentially the same time almost guarantees they’ll get together.
I’ll speculate on the under-scent and why the Jaguar is so hard to locate. The scent is the jaguars human scent because it’s a shifter too. I hope I find out if I’m right before the “last” chapter.
I know so little about shapeshifters, I’ll just take all of that at face value and focus on the story in general. My limited SS exposure is that they can shift into anything, being limited to one animal seems, I don’t know, unrealistic. Um, more unrealistic than there being shapeshifters at all.
I, like others was expecting more interaction between Connor and Dakota. I’m pretty sure Dakota isn’ta throw away character and he’ll return and will interact more with Connor.
Danny took to Connor quickly. Apparently Connor is not only a horse whisperer, he's a child whisperer as well. It’s quite a crowd that’ll be heading to Montana.
Give everyone considering marriage or a family a survey. One question being something akin to how would you feel if you discovered your child was gay. I’d they answered wrong, ship them off to an island somewhere with all the rest of the haters and let them enjoy each others company and leave the rest of us the f—- alone.
Hints of shape shifters? Hmm, I hope it isn’t a major point of the story. I’m hooked, though, so if it happens, maybe I’ll be ok. All bets are off if vampires and werewolves show up.
Glad I’m not the only ultra-late arrival. Interesting start. I initially wondered why Connor wouldn’t just “take ownership” of one of Granda’s horses, but it does make sense to get some training ahead of time on possibly what will be his own horse.