skygiants

I JUST RIGHT NOW finished it.

I spent a significant portion the book going "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DEMONS?" I feel like Rowan has not actually faced this problem properly yet. But I do really, really love the idea of EMPOWERING THE TOWNS to enact their own resistance. I also kind of love how it looks for all intents and purposes like she is going to pull the "male intellectual companion --> deep betrayal!" thing and then turns it straight around on its head. Everything with Will is suitably complex and fantastic. And ahhhhh the scene with the dragons! WHAT A BRILLIANT SET PIECE. I do really love how a lot of the technology is neither obvious nor intuitive, which would be the easy way to go about it, because of course it's evolved and changed from what we use -- and from the descriptions you can't look immediately at the dragons in Book 1 and say "ROBOTS!"

Is it wrong to ship Rowan and Will? My mind says maybe yes, and also that's not what the books are about at all, but my heart, like unto the village of Donner, says GET IT GIRL.