Close Kin is the second book in Clare B. Dunkle 's Hollow Kingdom trilogy. It takes place around five years after The Hollow Kingdom and follows Kate's younger sister Emily. Or at least it seems to. Where The Hollow Kingdom stuck pretty closely to Kate's story, Close Kin jumps around a fair bit, splitting its time three different ways as it traces the paths of Emily, her friend and would-be suitor Seylin, and an extremely unhappy elf named Sable. When Emily fails to take Seylin's romantic advances seriously, half goblin/half elf Seylin informs the Goblin King he is leaving to search out his other heritage and see if he can find any elves who managed to survive the last goblin harrowing. He does, in fact, come across a rather feral group of elves but, having suffered much in the name of mere survival, they are barely recognizable as the beautiful, carefree creatures Seylin dreamt of. Among this group is a young woman named Sable who, to avoid being forced in...
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ReplyDeletethey are so cute! and piper's dress turned out gorgeous Angie. Good job!! :o)
ReplyDeleteThey are WAY too cute. Did you make those yourself?
ReplyDeleteMy little pumpkin was a pumpkin. I was a pumpkin carrier. ;-)
My 6 yr old was harry potter too..so cute.
ReplyDeleteAnd Cinderella...omg. ADORABLE!!
So very very cute
ReplyDeleteADORABLE!!!
ReplyDeleteI love it! Your kids are so dang cute.
ReplyDeleteOh gosh, so cute!
ReplyDeleteCUTE OVERLOAD!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE them, Angie! Will is a perfect Harry Potter, and I've never seen a cuter Cinderella (and that's saying something, since Vicki was Cinderella one year!) The picture of the curtsey is killing me! Did you make the costumes? If so, you rock!
ReplyDeleteAll I could do when I clicked over and saw this post ws flutter my han ds and say, " Oh, oooh adorable!"
ReplyDeleteToo, tooooo cute! I'm curious if you made their costumes too. :)
Adorable! What a lovely picture!
ReplyDeleteAW! Is that tie on Harry Potter his dad's? That is so cute!!!
ReplyDeleteSooo cute!!! Harry Potter is adorable, and Cinderella... omg... too sweet!!
ReplyDeleteDottie :)
Sooo cute! Your kids are adorable.
ReplyDeleteAdorable!
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I love Piper holding out her dress. Fun night.
ReplyDeleteAwwwww so cute! :)
ReplyDeleteOh dear Lord, they are beyond adorable! I had to call my mother over to the computer to share the aaaawwwwwwwwwwww moment!
ReplyDeleteDid you make that absolutely gorgeous dress????
They are so adorable!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you liked the pics, guys. It was an awfully fun night.
ReplyDeleteAnd, yes, I did make the Cinderella dress. After much blood, sweat, and tears. And when she saw it, she promptly gasped and clasped it to her chest in joy. So it was all worth it. :)
Super cute!
ReplyDeleteSO CUTE!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely the cutest Harry Potter ever~
Oh.Em.Gee! There is just too much cuteness in that picture to appropriately do it justice in writing. :)
ReplyDeleteSweetness overload!!! Your children are sweeter than all the world's Halloween candy. No exaggeration.
ReplyDeleteAnd oh, how I envy your seamstress skills! My sewing machine gets a mind of its own when I'm at the pedal. LOL!
CUTE!!!
ReplyDeleteOMG! Cutest thing I've ever seen!
ReplyDeleteHere, I do not actually consider this will have success.
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