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Jan. 28th, 2013 12:20 pmOkay, let me start off by saying that I HUGELY enjoyed Quintana of Charyn, and by this point I REFUSE to believe that the Froi/Quintana duology is not basically a comedy at heart. It is! It must be! I mean, yes, traumatic backstories and dead babies and constant threat of war and/or murder and warnings for everything that needed to be warned for in the first two books (although much less rape in this one! I was glad about that), but for the first 3/4 of the book basically nothing happens except everyone having unwillingly awkward forced camping trips interspersed with romantic mishaps!
I mean, okay, on a more serious note, what it really is is a comedy in ( ways that are spoilery )
Here is a list of the things in Quintana that made me crack up:
( This list is definitely spoilery )
One more note: I also really enjoy how Finnikin stuck pretty much razor-straight to the rule of one POV, but all throughout the Froi/Quintana duology POVs just KEEP PROLIFERATING until basically everyone has had one, because Finnikin was really successful and screw the rules, MELINA MARCHETTA CAN DO WHAT SHE WANTS.
I mean, okay, on a more serious note, what it really is is a comedy in ( ways that are spoilery )
Here is a list of the things in Quintana that made me crack up:
( This list is definitely spoilery )
One more note: I also really enjoy how Finnikin stuck pretty much razor-straight to the rule of one POV, but all throughout the Froi/Quintana duology POVs just KEEP PROLIFERATING until basically everyone has had one, because Finnikin was really successful and screw the rules, MELINA MARCHETTA CAN DO WHAT SHE WANTS.
