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expensive, too new to be available on the secondary market, and my library system doesn't have it. a challenge !

Enjoyable wrap-up of the Chronicles. These stories of Shard the Gryfon and all his friends & his world have been charming, thoughtful, occasionally surprising, sometimes sad, almost always beautiful.

There are still more typos than a published work should have.

Would love to have the full set of these stories in hard copy. Maybe they will be re-issued in proofread & corrected copy someday. That would be lovely.

I love these books, even with the typos, and am sad to be coming to the end of the stories. Silver Wind wraps up Shard's main journey, bringing together many threads into what I found a satisfying conclusion. I especially like how Owen crafts characters that grow, doubt, struggle, and redeem themselves. There is uncertainty at times but never a real sense of impending doom. The books feel safe for most readers except those who absolutely cannot have death or carnivores.

I fervently hope that these books are picked up by a bigger publisher or otherwise re-issued with all the typos fixed. They would be worthy additions in hard copy to any library (we read/are reading them as ebooks).

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Typos or not, these books are dreadfully addictive. Almost not looking forward to finishing the series, if you know what I mean.

As the stories of Shard & friends get more complex and multi-branched, we need to revise our opinion of this as YA... it's YA-friendly but more than "merely" YA. There are still way too many typos.

Gempedia: A Comprehensive Glossary for Gemstones and Gemmology is a friendly & useful reference book. We say “friendly” because while it’s substantial indeed (over 7,300 entries), it’s also easy to hold in one hand while flipping through the pages, and has good-sized print and nice margins. Entries include trade names, organization names, technical terms, and more. There is a section at the back for numerical entries, and a final short section for symbols.
This book is text-only. It is not a coffee-table picture book. It is, however, a good companion to all of those coffee-table books, as it can provide one with definitions and context for all the unfamiliar words in their captions and blurbs. It would also make an excellent gift.

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Started out with a lot of visual description, more than we're used to these days, and then we remembered how many books we loved as a younger person were similar ... then the story itself picked up and we continued to enjoy it.
Especially enjoy it because while it's a book about gryfons (and wolves) it's not a paranormal romance about humans and werewolves.
Straightforward YA story/series, glad we purchased the set all at once so didn't have to wait to start the next one.

(recommended by E.Shallcross/Brodnax)