As you know, I love to read books. I have been reading the Wheel of Time series (WoT). It is the basic good against evil story where the good guy may or may not win. Well, I finished book twelve. This is not a good thing. Books twelve through fourteen are all about the ending of the story. They used to be just one book, all three books compressed into one, but the book would have been 1700 pages and that is way to long. So, now it is split into three books and books thirteen won't be published until November. You can imagine what I am going through.
There is a bright side. Tor publishing company also put out a series of books called the Sword of Truth (SoT). I have started reading the first book to try to pass the time. It is called Wizard's First Rule. While I was reading the first few chapters, I was a little upset. I didn't like the writing style of the author. I knew it was only because I was so used to the style of Robert Jordan, author of WoT. Now that I have progressed a little ways through the book, the style is rubbing off on me, but it still isn't better than Robert Jordan.
The story scared me the other night. In the story there is a beast called a "gar." It has the body shape of a man, but is about two feet taller. It is covered with hair except where his belly is, it is a white slimy color and almost transparent. The beast doesn't move in a straight line, but walks sideways like a crab. It moves like a bee. When it hears something it charges at it, grabs it, and rips it in half before it eats the animal's or human's guts. It, also, have biting flies that travel with it. The flies latch on to an animal, bites it and sucks its blood. Its the bight of the fly that makes the animal/ human say "ouch" or cry out and then the gar runs at them and kills them. So the gar and the fly works together.
I don't know about you, but this really freak me out. I was afraid to go out that night!
