I went to a used bookstore today, as I often do. This book caught my eye because red shoes, a single shoe, and France have been recent sync themes especially over on William Wright's blog.
The word redemption, with the first three letters written in red, has also come up on William's blog, so I noticed this series of vampire novels. There are 12 novels in the series, each with a single-word past-participle title, each printed in a different color. The final novel in the series is called Redeemed, and that word is printed in red.
I took out Redeemed and looked at the back cover:
The summary begins, "Zoey Redbird is in trouble. Having released the Seer S" -- and then the price sticker covers up the remainder of the next word. Don't tell me it's Seer Stone!
Yes, it is. I googled the beginning of the summary and found it online:
Zoey Redbird is in trouble. Having released the Seer Stone to Aphrodite, and surrendered herself to the Tulsa Police, she has isolated herself from her friends and mentors, determined to face the punishment she deserves -- even if that means her body will reject the change, and begin to die.
Are the authors Mormon, like Twilight author Stephenie Meyer? I can't find any evidence that they are. The use of the very Mormon expression "Seer Stone" is quite the coincidence, especially in light of the fact that William Wright's Red-emption post -- which is what prompted me to take a look at this novel -- interprets red as a reference to a magical red stone.
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That is funny it was a series of vampire novels of all things. I brought up vampires and spiders again in my post 1 day before this one in discussing Doug's Pengolodh.
https://coatofskins.blogspot.com/2024/08/pengolodh-spiritual-wickedness-in-high.html
Not to scry the back of the book too hard, but the last paragraph of that synopsis where it talks about Light vs Darkness, and who is redeemed or lost forever did bring to mind the words of the Angel to Nephi at the conclusion of his vision in 1 Nephi, which was ultimately about the redemption of Israel and Gentiles who would be numbered with them:
"For the time cometh, saith the Lamb of God, that I will work a great and a marvelous work among the children of men; a work which shall be everlasting, either on the one hand or on the other — either to the convincing of them unto peace and life eternal, or unto the deliverance of them to the hardness of their hearts and the blindness of their minds unto their being brought down into captivity, and also into destruction, both temporally and spiritually, according to the captivity of the devil, of which I have spoken."
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