Heh, I didn't mind at all that Mawat/Hamlet wasn't genre-savvy! I mean, I totally agree he's more thoughtful and genre-savvy in the original, I think I'm just not emotionally invested in it. Whereas I think I am emotionally invested in Horatio, so I would have been really upset if Eolo/Horatio had been messed with the way Mawat/Hamlet's character was. I guess maybe what I'm saying here is that my id pretty much exactly lines up with Ann Leckie's!
Speaking of ids matching up, I did also really like the thudding finality with which everything thunked into place at the end -- I guess I have a weakness for that kind of thing. And I think I have a lot of feelings about SAPotH being quite fond of Eolo but that fondness being a god's fondness, and so extending to saving him and matching him up to Ophelia (I never shipped this before reading this book and now I ship it like burning, well played Leckie) but not to totally using him to wreck everything.
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Speaking of ids matching up, I did also really like the thudding finality with which everything thunked into place at the end -- I guess I have a weakness for that kind of thing. And I think I have a lot of feelings about SAPotH being quite fond of Eolo but that fondness being a god's fondness, and so extending to saving him and matching him up to Ophelia (I never shipped this before reading this book and now I ship it like burning, well played Leckie) but not to totally using him to wreck everything.