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	How Not to Kill Yourself: A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists by Set Sytes (Goodreads Author), Faith G. Harper 3.91 avg rating — 768 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wulf (The Fifth Place #1) 3.73 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	India Muerte and the Ship of the Dead (India Muerte, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	India Muerte and the Indigo Caves (India Muerte, #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Born to Be Weird: DeMented Fantasy and Bizarro Horror 2.75 avg rating — 36 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	India Muerte and the Hunt for Black Atlantis (India Muerte #3) 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slade (The Fifth Place #2) 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Faces in the Dark: A Short Collection of Paranoid Horror 2.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Violet Dark 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	India Muerte and the Pirate Blood (India Muerte, #4) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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India Muerte and the Dragonfire Pearl

I can’t believe it’s been two years. I have no idea what happened to the time – I swear I only recently finished the Great Frontier.

Well, the wait wasn’t for nothing. Book 6 of my pirate fantasy series – India Muerte and the Dragonfire Pearl – is finally out, in ebook and paperback!

I wanted to take India and his crew truly out of their comfort zone in this story, far from the fantasy Caribbean mos

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“The only things that could be considered wrong with you could also be considered the fault of the world around you. There is little-to-nothing intrinsically wrong with you.”
― Set Sytes, How Not to Kill Yourself: A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists

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“Laughter really is the best medicine and there are no strict lines to be drawn for its use. You shouldn't assume you understand why someone is joking about something and you should never ever rob somebody of their sense of humor. You might just be taking away their lifeline.”
― Set Sytes, How Not to Kill Yourself: A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists

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“Now, look you here, Sekundar," says I, but he came up straight like a little bantam and cut me off.
"Sir Alexander. if you please," says he icily, as though I’d never seen him with his breeches down, chasing after some big Afghan bint.”
― George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman

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“This myth called bravery, which is half-panic, half-lunacy (in my case, all panic), pays for all; in England you can’t be a hero and bad. There’s practically a law against it.”
― George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman

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“I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.”
― George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman in the Great Game

tags: british-officer, gentleman, identitites, impersonation

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“There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.”
― George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman and the Mountain of Light

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“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
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