{"id":4315,"date":"2017-09-15T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4315"},"modified":"2017-09-06T15:18:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T22:18:04","slug":"mark-predicts-games-wizards-play-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2017\/09\/mark-predicts-games-wizards-play-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Predicts &#8216;Games Wizards Play&#8217; and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, cousins! For the time being, this will likely be the last of the\u00c2\u00a0<em>Young Wizards<\/em> prediction posts, since I&#8217;m nearing the end of the series publishing order. Never fear, though! I shall continued to be unprepared for you!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So, first things first: let&#8217;s talk about my last round of predictions.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The titular wizard is Roshaun.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Wow, I tried.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Because THAT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S WHERE HE WENT.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Still trying, still not doing it right.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>So I think this whole book is about rescuing Roshaun, and they find him on Mars. For\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a reason.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>MY GOD I WASN&#8217;T EVEN CLOSE.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what that reason is.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Because IT LITERALLY DOES NOT EXIST.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>We will also see a healed Ronan as part of the action!\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Hey, at least I got this right.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Darryl will be there, too.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>And there was so much Darryl!!!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>And there will be an update on Tuyet and Nguyet, who survived the battle on the moon.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>I REALLY LIKED THEM \ud83d\ude41<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Kit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family will have adopted a new dog.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>I actually don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ll be able to for a while.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This book will also take place during summer vacation, so the three young wizards won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be in school.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>I&#8217;m saving this for the next prediction post.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Lone One has some sort of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153presence\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on Mars, which is why the book is focused on that.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Technically, I&#8217;m not wrong. Technically, I&#8217;m just trying really, really hard to make me sound like I know what I am doing.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Kit and Nita will explore the possibility of dating in this book. (IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S BOUND TO HAPPEN.)\u00c2\u00a0<strong>FINALLY. UNABASHEDLY RIGHT, I CAN CELEBRATE.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This book will also address the emotional toll of past events on Dairine.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Also another great prediction!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>CARMELA LEARNS MORE WIZARD STUFF.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>CARMELA IS MY HERO.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>We will meet a new young wizard!\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Not a young one, but quite a few new wizards who are all adults.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There will be a big climactic battle on Mars.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Well, this is not wrong??? It just wasn&#8217;t what I thought.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M NOT READY.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>T R U E.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s the deal: I want these predictions to cover not\u00c2\u00a0<em>just<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0the next book, but this entire batch of stories and the novella. I won&#8217;t tally up my results until\u00c2\u00a0<em>after<\/em> I finish\u00c2\u00a0<em>Games Wizards Play<\/em> and before I start the Feline Wizards books. Thus: I shall be a mess for a lot longer.<\/p>\n<p>Here we go:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>One of the short stories will deal with Kit and Nita being in a relationship.<\/li>\n<li><em>How Lovely Are Thy Branches<\/em> features Filif as one of the main characters!<\/li>\n<li><em>Lifeboats<\/em> takes place&#8230; in the ocean?<\/li>\n<li>So S&#8217;reee makes an appearance?<\/li>\n<li>(Lord, I really have no idea what I&#8217;m doing.)<\/li>\n<li>Tom and Carl will feature in one of the stories.<\/li>\n<li>So will Nita&#8217;s dad.<\/li>\n<li>The Lone One will have one physical manifestation throughout everything.<\/li>\n<li><em>Games Wizards Play<\/em> is about&#8230; some sort of wizardly competition thing? Like maybe the title is literal?<\/li>\n<li>We will meet another young wizard! PLEASE.<\/li>\n<li>(Bonus points if they&#8217;re human.)<\/li>\n<li>Roshaun will not be found in any of the stories\/novellas\/books.<\/li>\n<li>But at least one of them will address Dairine&#8217;s search for him.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ll see Darryl and Ronan at least once.<\/li>\n<li>Carmela will have a major part in\u00c2\u00a0<em>Games Wizards Play<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Games Wizards Play<\/em> will happen during the kids&#8217; summer vacation.<\/li>\n<li>And it will happen off the planet!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>All right, into the unknown I go.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n<p>-\u00c2\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markoshiro.com\">Please visit my new site for all announcements<\/a>. If you&#8217;d rather not have to rely on checking a website regularly, <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/ey636\">sign up for my newsletter instead<\/a>! This will cover all news for Mark Reads, Mark Watches, and my fiction releases.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, cousins! For the time being, this will likely be the last of the\u00c2\u00a0Young Wizards prediction posts, since I&#8217;m nearing the end of the series publishing order. Never fear, though! 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