Finally, after searching for two years a man named Mason Sierra and his crew, find the notorious Copper Cave. Treasurer of Casper Venturi. But 1st they must "Tie-up-loose-ends." To keep the treasure for themselves. 

Good day, this is a fictional blog of a character I call Kim?

Kim is the type of person who is innocent, smart, but at the same time is fully aware of the evils of the world. Somehow, she still keeps a hopeful stance in life. She even works out and takes self-defense classes because she thinks that for her to feel freedom, she needs to invest on ways to keep her feelings of being free... immense.

Personally, she is like an imaginary friend for me. The type of friend that I wished existed and was there to help me empower my womanhood.

Some of my friends usually have fun when talking with me about women's empowerment and issues that were faced then and now.

So, I thought why not share these moments of bliss with everybody.

I also added a Webnovel Readers' segments on this fictional blog, so every once in a while, the blog will talk about some novels in webnovel. Naturally, everything said in the blog is my personal opinion, feel free to have a differing perpective.

Feel free to recommend some novels I haven't read before.

I didn't even know this guy.

Daemon's eyes narrowed. "Matthew, if you value the ability to walk, I wouldn't go there." Weirded out to the max, I stepped to the side. "I think I should go."

"I'm thinking Matthew should go," Daemon said, stepping in front of me, "unless he has another purpose other than sticking his nose where it doesn't belong."

Even Daemon couldn't block the revulsion in the man's stare. "I'm sorry," I said, voice wavering, "but I don't know what's going on here. We were just swimming."

Matthew's gaze swung on Daemon, who squared his shoulders. "It's not what you're thinking. Give me some credit. Dee hid my keys, forced me take her out to get them back." A hot flush swept through me. Did he really need to tell some dude I was a pity date?

And then the man laughed. "So this is Dee's little friend."

"That would be me," I said, crossing my arms.

"I thought you had this under control." He gestured toward me, sounding as if I were a homicidal clown standing next to Daemon.

"That you'd make your sister understand."

"Yeah, well, why don't you try to make her understand," Daemon retorted. "So far, I'm not having much luck."

Matthew's lips thinned. "Both of you should know better."

A crack of thunder startled me as they stared down at one another. Lightning streaked overhead, momentarily blinding. Once the light receded, dark, tumultuous clouds rolled in.

Energy crackled around me, flashing across my skin.

Then Matthew turned away, casting another dark look in my direction before heading inside Daemon's house. The moment the door slammed shut behind him, the clouds parted. I stared at Daemon, mouth hanging open.

"What...what just happened?" I asked.

He was already walking into the house, the door smacking off the frame once again like a shot in a canyon. I stood there, not sure what happened. I looked up at the clear sky. No trace of the violent storm. I'd seen that happen a hundred times in Florida, but what occurred seemed way too freakish. And thinking back to the lake, I wasn't sure what had happened, but I knew Daemon had been underwater far too long.

I also knew there was something not normal about him.

About all of them.

Dee called that night, and even though I wanted to tell her that my time with Daemon hadn't been all puppy dog tails and rainbows, I lied. I told her he was great. He earned his keys and then some. Otherwise, she might make him take me on another outing.

I almost felt bad for lying when she sounded happy.

The next week crawled by. I had endless time to dread the fact there was only a week and a half left before school started. Dee still hadn't come back from visiting family or whatever she was doing. Left alone and bored out of my mind, I'd gotten reacquainted with the Internet intimately.

It was early Saturday evening when Daemon unexpectedly showed up at my door, hands shoved into the pockets of his jeans. His back was to me, head tipped back as he stared up at the cloudless blue sky. A few stars were starting to appear but the sun wouldn't truly set for another couple of hours.

Surprised to see him, I walked outside. His head whipped down so fast I thought he would pull a muscle. "What are you doing?" I asked.

His brows slanted low. Several seconds passed and then his lip tipped up at one corner.

He cleared his throat. "I like staring at the sky. There's something about it." His gaze returned to the sky. "It's endless, you know." Daemon almost sounded deep. "Is some crazy dude going to run out of your house and yell at you for talking to me?"

"Not right now, but there is always later." I wasn't sure if he was being serious or not.

"I'm okay missing 'later.'"

"Yeah. Busy?"

"Other than messing with my blog, no."

"You have a blog?" He faced me, leaning back against the post. Derision pinched his features.

He'd said blog like it was a crack habit.

"Yeah, I have a blog."

"What's your blog's name?"

"None of your business," I said, smiling sweetly.

"Interesting name." He returned my smile with a half grin. "So what do you blog about?

Knitting? Puzzles? Being lonely?"

"Ha. Ha, smartass." I sighed. "I review books."

"Do you get paid for them?"

I laughed out loud at that. "No. Not at all." Daemon seemed confused by that. "So you review books and you don't get paid if someone buys a book based on your review?"

"I don't review books to get paid or anything." Although that would be sweet, which reminded me I needed to get a library card. "I do it because I like it. I love reading, and I enjoy talking about books."

"What kind of books do you read?"

"All different kinds." I leaned against the post opposite of him, craning my neck back to meet his steady gaze. "Mainly I prefer the paranormal stuff."

"Vampires and werewolves?"

Man, how many questions could he ask?

"Yeah."

"Ghosts and aliens?"

"Ghost stories are cool, but I don't know about aliens. ET really doesn't do it for me and a lot of readers."

One single eyebrow arched. "What does it for you?"

"Not slimy green space creatures," I replied.

"Anyway, I also appreciate graphic novels, history stuff - "

"You read graphic novels?" Disbelief colored his tone. "Seriously?" I nodded. "Yeah, so what? Are girls not supposed to like graphic novels and comics?" He stared at me a long moment, then jerked his chin toward the woods. "Want to go on a hike?"

"Uh, you know I'm not good with the whole hiking thing," I reminded him.

A grin appeared. There was an edge to it.

Rough. Sexy. "I'm not taking you up on the Rocks. Just a harmless little trail. I'm sure you can handle it."

"Did Dee not tell you where your keys were?" I asked, suspicious.

"Yeah, she did."

"Then why are you here?"

Daemon sighed. "I don't have a reason. I thought I would just stop over, but if you're going to question everything, then you can forget it."

I watched him go down the steps as I chewed on my lip. This was crazy. I'd been dying of boredom for days. Rolling my eyes, I called out, "All right, let's do this."

This is not the original book readers as I said that before. This book is originally written by Jennifer L. Armentrout and I just made few changes that's it. I am not trying to take credit of her work and skills. Thank you for reading. Enjoy Reading!! Stay safe

PLOT

STARTING OVER SUCKS

When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I'd pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring... until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up.

AND THEN HE OPENED HIS MOUTH

Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, well, something... unexpected happens.

THE HOT ALIEN LIVING NEXT DOOR MARKS ME

You heard me. Alien. Turns out Daemon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their abilities, and Daemon's touch has me lit up like the Vegas Strip. The only way I'm getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon until my alien mojo fades.

IF I DON'T KILL HIM FIRST, THAT IS

This is not the original book readers as I said that before. This book is originally written by Jennifer L. Armentrout and I just made few changes that's it. I am not trying to take credit of her work and skills. Thank you for reading. Enjoy Reading!! Stay safe!!

ABOUT BOOK

This book Is one of those “new girl moves to town and accidentally meets a group of non-humans” It’s also a perfect “Boy next door romance” Katy moves from Florida to West Virginia. Turns out she lives next door to the most hottest siblings. Throughout the plot Katy is befriending her neighbours, however, realises that strange things are happening there. She experiences weird paranormal things whilst juggling high school, making friends, avoiding a certain bitchy girl, but mostly the gorgeous arrogant and snarky neighbour besides her. When you combine a feisty girl from Florida and a sexy, alien.

Callea was trying to get the feels of their visitor while cooking at the kitchen. They were with Deive at the living room. According to Deive, he has been friends with those men since they were kids. They were also Deive's business partners. They didn't say much but she knew that they don't like her for Deive. Even when she changed her church dress to one the nice dresses that Deive bought for her, the tension was still there. They were still uncomfortable with her.

She was not the Callea they were expecting. She was not the normal beautiful woman that her grandfather was selling.

"I think that is done, señorita," Marina said then tapped her arm. She was cooking chicken adobo with coconut milk. (Adobo is a popular Filipino dish where fish, pork, beef, chicken or vegetable would be cooked with soy sauce and vinegar and other spices. Callea's recipe was special because it has coconut milk in it.)

 She was zoning out. She didn't notice that Marina was back in the kitchen after she fixed the table at the dining area for dinner. She didn't want Marina to see the guests a while ago. She was protective of her because of her past experiences with strangers. But Deive insisted that Marina must meet his friends, too.

"They are kind and handsome, too." Marina was grinning from ear-to-ear. "Sir Averill even asked me if I am that hunchback in the story that you created. The one where people thought that she was a jinx but became the hero in the end." It was a particular favorite of Callea because she showed that not all beautiful creatures are kind and some who were considered ugly could have a good heart and even save a lot of people.

"Averill know about that? He reads my novels?" she asked in awe. Averill was a businessman. She never thought he had it in him to read graphic novels. And how did he know about her identity as an artist? Her works were popular, sure. But aside from her publisher, nobody knew the real identity of the artist behind her works. She hated attending book signings and meet and greet because she valued her privacy so much.

"Yes. Even the grumpy one is a fan of yours." Marina stopped for a bit to think. "Ah! That's Sir Lucian. Señorito Deive is so proud of you. He boasted you to his friends. You are not just a great artist but you are good in history as well. Now they are interested to visit the underground cemetery with you as their guide."

"Hmmm… Deive is now the ambassador of tourism."

"I also want to thank you."

"Why?" Callea asked and took the Pyrex container where she would put the adobo.

"Because some people looked at me differently now. I used to be treated as a jinx like I couldn't do anything good in this world. "This is the first time that some strangers treated me like a heroine because of the story you created. That I am not some devil's minion or a person with a communicable disease."

She put the Pyrex down and held her hand. "Marina, you are a good person. In God's eyes, we are all the same. We are all beautiful. It is only humans who put a standard on things. Even those who are beautiful experience human's cruelty." And she felt sad when she remembered who had to pay for her beauty.

"Go to the visitors now. I will put the food on the table," said Marina and shooed her away.

Callea removed her apron and left the kitchen. At the living room, Keiran was playing the piano. Deive and his friends were laughing with Sydney's antics about her graphic novel that he read. It was a piece of happy jazz music and was fit for jovial mood.

They stopped talking when Lucian saw her. "Your bride is here," he said to Deive.

Sydney stopped talking and moving entirely and his jaw was slack. He looked like he was afraid to move. He was still afraid of her. He apologized for screaming a while ago when she took off her veil. She couldn't laugh much afterward because he looked like he was about to have a heart attack. Deive had to give him his water canister and made her drink water to calm him down. She promised not to scare him anymore. Well, not that much.

She forced a smile. "Dinner will be ready in a bit."

"I could smell the ginataang adobo. It makes me hungrier," said Lucian and stood up.

While Averill walked towards her. She noticed that he was holding a copy of her graphic novel and a pentel pen. "Could you please sign an autograph for me?"

She stepped back and shook her head. "I don't sign autographs. I mean, not in person." She didn't even want to face her fans. It was weird that someone asked her to personally sign her book.

Lucian crossed his arms over his chest. Drat! The man looked intimidating when his attention was focused on her. "As Deive's future, you can't refuse us. In return, we will guard Deive so he won't stray to other women."

"Don't be like that, man," Deive complained. "I am a good boy. I am faithful." Then Deive smiled at her. "Please sign it for my friends."

He couldn't say no to Deive at that point. His friends would find it more it weirder if she would refuse them furthermore. She took the pentel pen from Averill. She was a bit shaking as she signed her book that had just been released at the market last month. She smiled when she got a hang of it. It also felt great to sign her own book. "Just make sure that my identity will be anonymous to others. I just gave in because you would make sure that Deive won't go back to his womanizing ways."

Deive scratched his own head. "I am a good boy," he insisted.

"Can I make a request?" asked Sydney and raise his hand. "Deive said you like cosplaying the characters you created. Can you cosplay the red vampire Zapira for me? I got a crush on her."

"What?!" exclaimed Deive and hooked his arm on Sidney's neck and tried to choke him.

The rest of them laughed. It was crazy. They were so adorable. And she realized that she hadn't laughed for a long time in the company of strangers. Before it comes easily. That was the old her. She never thought she would experience it again. It was liberating. Deive made him laugh again. With that laugh, Deive also opened the door to her heart. And she would let him inside her heart even if he won't ask for it.

An arranged marriage to a perfect bride.

To keep him in line, playboy Deive Hontiveros needs to marry Callea Lopez so he could start his own business. He thought he got lucky when he sees how beautiful and caring Callea is.

She lives in a haunted mansion though and he got plagued by a mysterious ghost of a woman and her cat from hell.

He must protect his bride at all cost. 

But what if Callea is one with the darkness?


Original cover design by Runa Lee 
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Young, poor Michael Henchard feels trapped by his wife 
and child and one night gets drunk at a fair and sells 
them to a stranger called Newson. Horrified by what 
he has done, he swears not to touch alcohol for twenty 
years. Eighteen years later he is the mayor of Casterbridge 
and a successful businessman. Believing Newson is dead, 
his wife, Susan, and daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, arrive in 
Casterbridge to find Henchard because she has no money. 
He marries her again and they have a short happy life 
together. Farfrae, a young man with modern business 
ideas, arrives at the same time and becomes Henchard's 
farm manager. Susan dies, and Henchard learns that 
Elizabeth-Jane is really Newson's daughter. Henchard falls 
out with Farfrae, who sets up a rival business, and soon 
outdoes him. A woman from Henchard's past, Lucetta, 
comes to Casterbridge. Henchard now wants to marry 
her, but she and Farfrae fall in love. Henchard's business 
fails and he loses his house so he starts drinking again. 
Lucetta dies of shock after the local people make fun of 
her and Henchard in public. He sees that he will now 
lose his 'daughter' as well as everything else. He leaves 
Casterbridge on foot. He is penniless and has lost his 
family – just as at the beginning of the story. Elizabeth-
Jane remains loyal to Henchard, but he dies before she can 
find him.
Chapter 1: Henchard, a farm worker aged twenty, has a 
family, no job and no home. He gets drunk and sells his 
wife and child for five guineas to a sailor named Newson 
at a fair. Devastated at what he has done, he looks for 
them without success. Henchard makes a solemn promise 
not to touch alcohol for twenty years. 
Chapter 2: Susan, widowed and poor, and her eighteen-
year-old daughter, Elizabeth-Jane arrive in Casterbridge to 
find Henchard. She is relieved to find he is now the Mayor 
and a businessman who needs a corn manager for his 
growing business.
Chapter 3: Henchard employs Farfrae, a handsome 
innovative Scotsman as corn manager and the business 
improves. He also meets Susan and devises a plan so 
that the townspeople do not find their marriage strange. 
He draws closer to Farfrae and tells him about his past; 
including a woman in Jersey he promised to marry. 
Chapter 4: Henchard marries Susan, but she is reluctant 
to have her daughter's last name changed. He and Farfrae 
disagree publicly over a worker. Henchard is jealous and 
organises a rival entertainment day to Farfrae's, but it fails. 
Farfrae leaves him and sets up a rival business. Susan dies 
but leaves a letter with the truth about her daughter.
Chapter 5: Henchard tells Elizabeth-Jane what happened 
at the fair twenty years ago but reads in Susan's letter that 
she is really Newson's daughter. He begins to treat her 
coldly, and even encourages Farfrae to see her. Elizabeth-
Jane meets a woman at her mother's grave who is friendly 
and offers her to share her house. : Lucetta, the woman from Jersey, has inherited 
property in Casterbridge and has employed Elizabeth-Jane 
as a housekeeper. Henchard tries to see her but they fail to 
meet. Farfrae calls in to see Elizabeth-Jane, who is out. He 
likes Lucetta and she loses interest in Henchard.
Chapter 7: Henchard goes bankrupt because of the 
weather and his own impatience while Farfrae's business 
succeeds. Henchard realises he and Farfrae compete for 
Lucetta's love, so he threatens her with making their past 
public so that she accepts his proposal of marriage.
Chapter 8: Henchard agrees to postpone their wedding 
if Lucetta helps him buy some time to repay a debt to 
Grower. She can't because she has secretly married Farfrae 
and Grower acted as witness. 
Chapter 9: Henchard claims the letters from his safe, and 
reads them out to Farfrae without disclosing the sender. 
He promises Lucetta to give tham back to her and asks 
Jopp to deliver them.
Chapter 10: Jopp asks Lucetta to help him become her 
husband's manager but she refuses. In a pub, he reads out 
the letters to two women and they plan a skimmity-ride in 
town to scorn Lucetta and Henchard. 
Chapter 11: A member of the Royal family visits the 
town but Henchard is not allowed to greet him. Hurt, 
Henchard fights Farfrae in a barn but cannot bring himself 
to kill him.
Chapter 12: Henchard is back in town to see the ride. 
Farfrae does not see the ride because he is lured away from 
town but Lucetta dies of the shock.
Chapter 13: Henchard and Elizabeth-Jane live 
together happily. Elizabeth-Jane and Farfrae renew their 
relationship and get married. Newson returns and tells his 
daughter the truth, which makes her very happy.
Henchard leaves the town.
Chapter 14: Elizabeth-Jane marries Farfrae and tries to 
find her father to take care of him but he dies before she 
can find him. 
The original text
The novel first appeared serially, in twenty instalments, 
in 1886 in The Graphic, an English periodical and 
simultaneously in the United States. The book appeared 
as soon as the serial publication was complete but it differs 
a lot from the serial novel. It has been adapted for TV as a 
miniseries.
Background and themes
Where the story came from: Hardy claims the story 
was inspired by three actual events: the sale of a wife 
by her husband reported in a local newspaper, the 
uncertain harvests and the visit of Prince Albert, Queen 
Victoria's husband, to Dorchester, the town upon which 
Casterbridge is based, in 1849. 
Fight with self: The main theme of the book is 
Henchard's fight against two things: his own character 
and chance. As he fights with himself, his actions and 
decisions affect other people's lives, usually badly. He 
often allows negative feelings to overwhelm him – at the 
beginning when things seem so bad he sells his wife. He is 
always honest in business, but not always kind; he is often 
impatient and quick to anger, but he is capable of great 
love and great loneliness. His complex character creates 
uncertainty in the reader – should we feel sorry for him or 
does he deserve everything that happens to him?
Chance: Chance plays an important part throughout the 
story: the chance appearance of Newson in the tent when 
Henchard is trying to sell his wife; the rain that spoils 
Henchard's fair; the August weather that ruins Henchard's 
business; the chance meeting between Farfrae and Lucetta 
when they fall in love. Hardy believes that although 
Henchard is a powerful character, he is never fully in 
control of his life.
Alcohol also has a role here. Henchard's life improves 
when he stops drinking; as he devotes himself to work, 
builds a successful business and eventually becomes mayor. 
Once he starts again, he loses his pride and his judgement. 
Traditional versus modern: The two men represent 
contrasting ways of life in the country. Henchard is 
traditional and old-fashioned. Farfrae is young and 
modern. Hardy was always fascinated by country customs 
and ways. He often includes strange country rituals like 
the skimmity-ride in his novels. They make useful plot 
devices and allow him to paint pictures of colourful but 
less important characters. He also uses them to reveal the 
conservative side of society, which can be very cruel to 
people who fall outside its strict rules of moral behaviour. 
Lucetta dies because of the skimmity joke. This breaking 
of the moral code becomes a very important theme in 
Hardy's later novels, which shocked the reading public 
and ended Hardy's novel-writing career. What has Providence done to Mr Hardy 
that he should rise up in the arable land of 
Wessex and shake his fist at his Creator?
So wrote Hardy's friend Edmund Gosse at 
the end of a review of Jude the Obscure. 
It's a fair question. What made Hardy see 
the world as such a dark and unforgiving 
place? He grew up in a loving family, 
studied and worked at a job he enjoyed, 
lived in a part of the country he loved, 
went on to make his living as a writer, and 
became (and remains) one of the greatest 
English novelists. His life had its tragedies 
– the suicide of a close friend, a childless 
and ultimately unhappy marriage – as well 
as its philosophical darknesses (he found 
the conventional notion of a benevolent 
God impossible). But surely these are not 
sufficient to explain an almost malevolentlydisinterested Fate that wreaks its heedless 
damage upon the central characters of 
his books. For Hardy, coincidences are not 
merely plot devices: they are the wheels 
of a Juggernaut that will crush everything 
that has any association with it; and to 
which the characters seem tied by virtue 
of their flawed human-ness. 
Hardy was compulsively interested in 
how people's characteristics shaped their 
lives; in local history; and in recognising 
the social shifts that were changing the 
landscape, workscape, philosophy and 
very tenor of the world he knew. As a 
writer, he bridged the span between the 
high Victorian of the 1860s and the era 
of Modernism in the 1920s. Around him, 
the rigorous certainties of the former gave 
way to the intellectual and spiritual doubtsof the latter, and the shift was registered 
everywhere, from the literary cliques 
of London to the labourers in Dorset – 
everything was undergoing a profound 
upheaval. And Hardy was caught between 
the two extremes.
He was born to a builder and master 
stonemason in Bockhampton, Dorset, and 
although educated at home until he was 
eight, he was a capable student and by 
the time he was 13 was learning French 
and Latin. He was also a lover of music, 
something he shared with his father, 
playing the violin and joining the choir. 
But his family's social status and lack of 
funds meant any further education was 
out of the question, so at 16 he went 
to study under the architect John Hicks, 
and at about the same time, met Horatio 
(Horace) Moule. For the next 15 years or 
so, Moule was to be a friend and mentor, 
introducing Hardy to the contemporary 
authors and the Greek writers, whose 
sense of the tragic was to be echoed in 
much of Hardy's work. Moule was a man 
of profound charm, charisma, intellect 
and personality, blighted with melancholia 
and a tendency to alcohol. He eventually 
committed suicide in 1873. There is no 
evidence to suggest a sexual element to 
their closeness, but Moule's life (and death) 
had the same depth of effect on Thomas 
Hardy as Arthur Hallam's had on Tennyson 
– something at the very root of life was 
expressed by the friendship; something 
crushingly destroyed by the death.
Before that tragedy, however, Hardy 
was making a living as an architect, and 
in 1862 he took a post in a practice in 
London. Here his pained sensitivity to 
the niceties of the English class system 
and his belief that reform in all areas of 
English social life (philosophical, religious 
and political) was necessary were honed 
by his exposure to wider culture and to 
other writers and philosophers. But his 
health was never strong; and the urge to 
live in the countryside he loved so much 
meant he returned to Dorset five years 
later. He had been writing poetry for some 
time, but it was felt that the publishers 
wanted prose. So he started writing 
novels, though at first the publishers didn't 
want them, either. He destroyed his first 
one, but was persuaded to carry on, and 
between 1872 (Under the GreenwoodTree) and 1898 (The Well-Beloved) he 
wrote 18 novels, including six or seven of 
the greatest works in English fiction. These 
are tragedies that bring together strong 
characters and an implacable Fate (often 
one that seems to pass judgement on the 
basis of conventional morality) in an area 
of south-west England that Hardy knew, 
loved, understood – and mythologised as 
Wessex. One of these was The Mayor of 
Casterbridge.
It explores many of his core themes: 
the traps of convention; the ramifications 
of character; class and social structure; the 
conflicts between love and loyalty, self and 
the greater good; fate; religion; and many 
other issues, all laced within a story that 
– for all its apparent improbability – has 
its starting point in fact. Hardy collected 
items that matched his view of the way 
life treated people, and incorporated them 
in his works; and he noticed a story in a 
local paper about a man selling his wife at 
a fair. It seemed a perfect springboard for 
the characters he had in mind. Henchard 
is not just a victim of circumstance – his 
fate is rooted in his inherent characteristics 
and the decisions he makes are based on 
his nature. The same is true of Farfrae, 
Elizabeth-Jane (although she was 
somewhat softened in later editions, which 
rather reduced her strength of character) 
and even Susan and Newson. This is why 
the novel has the subtitle A Story of a 
Man of Character (although which man is 
meant by this is not completely clear). The 
lives that are played out are not merely at 
the whim of fate, God or even, to some 
extent, the novelist. They are the natural 
extensions of the characters themselves.
The novel was serialised in the Graphic
with some trepidation, since Hardy was 
developing a reputation for controversy 
that would only grow over the remaining 
10 years of his life as a novelist. His 
opposition to many of the standard mores 
put him at odds with the establishment, 
and the reception afforded his later works 
– one Bishop actually burned a copy of 
Jude the Obscure and, as Hardy pointed 
out, that was probably only because he 
couldn't burn the novelist – decided him 
to give up the form altogether and return 
to his first love, poetry.
Between 1898 and the end of his 
life, Hardy published no more novels, butconcentrated on poems and epic verse. He 
was awarded the Order of Merit in 1910, 
having earlier refused a knighthood, and a 
major edition of his works was published 
in 1912. But the same year, his wife – from 
whom he had been essentially estranged 
for almost two decades – died; and her 
death proved a wellspring of profound 
emotion and inspiration as he remembered 
their earlier happiness. He married his 
secretary Florence Dugdale two years 
later, and continued to publish verse and 
autobiography until his death in 1928. 
So what had Providence done to Mr 
Hardy? Nothing of itself, perhaps. It was 
his fate to be gifted with a sense of the 
effects of character on life, of the capacity 
for unhappiness, of the shifts undermining 
the social world; his fate to have a poetic 
imagination, a deep understanding of 
irony and a mind that could not accept a 
conventional theology. And it was his fate 
to act upon these inherent gifts and flaws, 
just as his heroes and heroines did....!!!!

We have to get at the truth of the matter.
Mary isn’t the type of person who gossips.
People lost faith in banks.
She will defeat them.
I was delighted at the news of her success.
They laughed at my idea.
Alex had a fear that he would fall down.
She tried to restrain her anger.
Don’t underestimate your own strength.
Samuel has a good side and an evil side...!!!

Have you ever wanted to give light to something unknown? If so, then maybe you'll get a treat on the webtoon Caster by both Common/Noble Transmission. Let's end the February spotlights by finally sharing a little bit of Black History.


Author/Artist


Pretty sure I don't need to introduce who the musical artist Common is, but Noble Transmission deserves at least a little bit of praise. Caster is officially made by Austin Harrison, Zach Howard, and Mike Raicht. Their titles include "Wild Blue Yonder," listed as one of the Top 100 Great Graphic Novels for Teens by the American Library Association, and "Tree Mail" which won the Most Epic Adventure Award (voted on by kids).


The music of the webtoon features an All Original Score produced by Robert Glasper and co-produced by Jahi Sundance & Jay Cooper, with Common and Derek Dudley executive producing.


Summary


In a world filled with sexy espionage, no one can do it quite like Caster. Give him enough money, and the man is willing to travel just about anywhere to "relive" the ownership of any special artifact he can get his hands on. Despite this philosophy, Caster is a man with morals, and that may be the thing that makes his line of work finally catch up with him because he may have just stumbled upon the ultimate prize that will cost more than just a pretty penny for everyone involved.


Characters


Caster: Our main "hero" Caster is a true professional. He is almost always able to get the job done and has the patience and dedication to see a mission through to the end. However, it doesn't mean Caster is devoid of humor or a good joke every once in a while. Later chapters reveal that his rather snarky nature is a mask to hide a difficult past.


Mr. Nishimura: A close associate of Caster, Nishimura hopes to honor his daughter by collecting a series of artifacts that contain a possibility of bringing her back. To that end, he is more than ready to sacrifice just about anyone that gets in his way.


Nora/Mathias: A brother/sister duo of people tasked with protecting the artifacts, these two couldn't be more different. Nora is a radical extremist with a bad temper. On the flip side, Mathias is a calm, rational and honorable soul who doesn't believe in the superstitions of what they protect.


Lewis: Caster's closest sidekick, Lewis, is a complete socially awkward nerd who holds no punches with his words. However, this has led him to become one of Caster's closest allies as he does always put them first before anyone else for the sake of caution. 


Overview


I've been on webtoon for four years, and, amazingly, Caster has the most comic book style out of the bunch. The many locations of this worldwide romp are honestly wallpaper-worthy stuff and make the action scenes spicy. Caster isn't afraid to try and portray various cultures of said locations through the characters, leading to some pretty cool designs and images. However, I do think that the art sometimes lends itself to characters with rather awkward poses. Either way, though, the action scenes in Caster more than sell themselves. One chapter can involve half-naked sledding across icy hills or high-risk falls in an underground cave, giving the chase scenes a lot of flair compared to most webtoons.


Caster also features a relatively unique soundtrack, which is something that I wished more Webtoons used honestly. For this, in particular, I have to say that the music represents each scene pretty perfectly while changing when needed, giving the panels a very larger than life feel towards them.


Overall though, I have to admit that rereading Caster was more entertaining than I expected. This series replicates that Indiana Jones feel as this series fills itself with those tropes. Characters all have their motivations in this treasure quest, making them allies and enemies at the drop of a hat. The treasure itself also implies a far more mystical side to the story that might be played out later. Either way, this story is an easy binge with only 30 chapters.

Epilogue


Honestly, Caster is a bit of a sad case. I remember seeing this open up with BackChannel and Outrage and excited that more traditional western comics could go to Webtoon. I love webtoon for its international opportunities for people anywhere to make a following. Still, I do think that bigger projects like Caster should be more supported to help balance out the massive manhwa library. But considering that both Caster and Backchannel have been on hiatus for almost two years now, that dream seems to be coming to an end with Outrage and possibly Urban Animal as the winners. But who knows? Dr. Frost and Athena Complex have come back, so why can't these 2. Either way, I hope more comic books like projects like this see the spotlight shine on them again. But with this spotlight out of the way, let's move on to March with more spotlights, expect a lot more analysis and previous webtoons making an appearance soon.

Just a simple person is trying to shine a little light on the beautiful world of webtoon. With a splash of sarcasm, narration, and spitfire along the way.  And who knows I might have other segments just for the hell of it.

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