skygiants

I always forget that A Sudden Wild Magic exists.

HOW CAN YOU FORGET THE CHAPTER-LONG MAGICAL CONGA LINE?

[edit] I agree that A Sudden Wild Magic feels like an outlier among her works, partly because of its explicit sexuality where elsewhere, as in Hexwood, the sex is more implicit and tangled up with other things. Also because in many ways it feels like a dry run for Deep Secret to me, with the latter being a much more successful novel. A Sudden Wild Magic really evaporates at the end, and not in the good way where identities rain out of the woodwork and everyone who hasn't turned out to be someone else sits around blinking and going, ". . . okay!" But it has several characters that I enjoy, and a nice retake on pocket universes, and some genuinely numinous and delightful images, like the striding pylons and the king—"His Majesty Rudolph IX, King of Trenjen, Frinjen, and Corriarden, Protector of Leathe and Overlord of the Fiveir of the Orthe"—shopping with his string bag full of oranges and his spectacles that he cleans with a handkerchief.

And I will always love the conga line.