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I updated the timeline for the RD series.

The most glaring continuity item is Norian. While I admit I snickered when Corinnelar admonished Norian, and smiled a little when he met his end (again).
He should not have been there at all. I have updated the timeline to show Norian and Lissa's mating as well as the demise of the Black Mist. At this time Norian is 116 years old when Lissa takes him to look for his parents. We know Lissa went 300 years in to the future and we now know that RD is 28 years after Star Cove and during the year that Winkler forces his son Wayne to challenge him. (Lissa goes to his funeral 53 years after she last saw him on Earth). There is a 3 year disparity in the timeline between these 2 reference points, not enough to worry over though.

This means...The RD time frame is ~135 years before Norian is born and probably 165 years before he is head of the ASD.

Any one want to take a stab at an explanation?

JD - That one is easy ... Who ever said that earth years are the same as Reth Alliance years? We already know that Christmas shows up at odd seasons on LeAth-Veronis so we know it is not one to one.

well so far every thing has been spoken in earth years.

So, if Alliance years are roughly 1:3 to Earth, then Norian would be about the right age.

works for me. " a because Connie said so also works".

Location 4016 Kindle Edition Cloud Rebel
"Together he and I-Wisdom and Love- had exerted our power.
What had been designed to destroy now now held a desire for the opposite. We couldn't erase the rogue god's influence from the whole of the intended weapon, but we'd neutralized as much as we could.
That made me smile. Wisdom and I - we'd laid claim to it. It was ours. We would protect it as much as we could, but it had become its own, guided by its own sensibilities."

I wonder if that is about Quin or the orb, but it also could be a complete curve ball and is about something else entirely.

So.... since Cori killed Phillips and Hal before they got the drug and surgery does that mean everything in the first two books was deleted? Like it never happened? Cause Ilya died in prison. I think that even though Cori put her replicated body in stasis Bree had to undo that to " change what was" so then had to put her in stasis again. It makes sense to leave her as a Larentii, she would be more useful that way. If not then did Bree awaken her powers in her Karathian body. Cause they weren't in the first book but when she became Larentii they were. If she is laurentii do you actually think the council will go against Bree and kill Cori. No way. So she is no longer under a death sentance.

My random comments on Cloud Rebel:

Until this book, I did not really understand what the drug did. I knew it changed the people but did not realize it was their future selves. I wonder the reasoning why it did not work on most people on earth? The part that Brett needed help in being a werewolf but the original person (I can't remember his name) had known about werewolves before helped to answer some questions there.

It is surprising that Ilya was not cured of his obsession but it was muted or hidden by Valegar and Nefrigar.

I think I agree with theory of Quinn was made by Loren and is not Corinne. But who knows except Connie! But then are there two small coffins? Or does it get reused (Bree puts her person in, then Loren reuses it for Quinn?) That is why the Karathians are looking for the coffin?

I really did not like Matt Michaels for head position of NSA/etc. So I am glad he is out but will he do something to retaliate?

Also, Corinne sends a note to Lissa about Winkler. So does the timeline change so much that Winkler does not show up until now instead of Book 7 or Book 8 of the Blood Destiny series?

I really liked the part where Bree (I think it was her) shows up at the birth of Ilya and tells the parents that they need to name the baby Ilya and not Brylin.

The ending surprised me. In God Wars, most of the people came back. Here, our main characters are killed with the hint that they will be back in a later time. It is a sadder ending to a series than Connie's other books.