skygiants: Bunny-suit Kenji from 20th Century Boys saying 'this is the defender of justice who's gonna save the world from danger' (love and peace are on hold)
skygiants ([personal profile] skygiants) wrote 2020-10-12 04:08 am (UTC)

Same, tbh; it's rare for me too but they're SO good!

Yeah, I was glad for the light touch around the miscarriage, and some of the rough moments from earlier books. But if you have the gods play their hand too strongly here in the name of self-defense, that also starts to raise so many other questions, like what is going on with the Mede gods, then? Why were Immakuk and Ennikar involved in getting Kamet and Costis safely to Attolia? Whose gods get to throw lightning bolts, and whose don't?

Honestly, one thing that struck me when re-reading the Thief was the fact that with all the times Gen mentions earrings and the use of the first-person voice that conveniently elides pronouns, I would have spent most of the book convinced that Gen was not a boy if I was reading it for the first time now.

The earring scene in Queen of Attolia is honestly one of those that gets more phenomenal every time I read it.

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