skygiants

Oh man, I had the exact same complaint – come on, you can't put in "if you dishonor the gods he'll let you drop" AND "Eugenides stole jewelry back from the altar to pay for the boats" and not... let him drop. Just a little bit!!! Drop him just a little bit! The story needed it!

I also hated the Eddisian council decision retcon – I know it's not a retcon exactly but I'm mad about it so I'll call in a retcon – it was so unnecessary! It truly did not add anything!!!

(I still loved the book, I'm just – my brain feels like my skull is full of sea foam and MWT shook it firmly for several hours, and the most distinct thoughts right now are complaints)

For that matter I'm still weirded out by the volcano prophecy bit – it dangles weirdly in the story.

I feel bad about yelling about this book I really enjoyed and happily spent half of today devouring, so: while I thought her monarch quartet scenes got too goofy at several points, the part where Eugenides scales the wall in a rage and joke-threatens to pull Sounis out of the window was perfect. Also, while I'm going to waffle for a while about her choice of narrator (I feel like her previous ones did a better job of being in the story proper as well as conveying it – I suppose not Costis, but I started my rereads at book 4 to prep for book 6 and don't remember clearly), he really does feel like the perfect fit in some ways. And there's nothing more precious than a curious child in a premodern society learning about the Fibonacci sequence.