well, if it's the Relius/Teleus that's explicitly textual instead of the Costis/Kamet I am going to be really mad and I am also going to laugh extremely hard." I mean, full respect to Megan, it is top tier trolling to stare me straight in the face and hold up a sign that says "YES I ABSOLUTELY KNOW QUEER PEOPLE EXIST" and then flip it around to show that the back says "I STILL REFUSE TO UNAMBIGUOUSLY CONFIRM THESE ONES, JUST TO SPITE YOU PERSONALLY."
I KNOW.
I do wish the help of the gods had come at a higher cost, that we hadn't quite been done struggling against them yet.
Agreed. I liked where we ended with the gods, but I wish that there had been a bit more struggling (and at least one god offense!) before reaching that ending.
(Actually, a part of me thinks that it might have been more narratively satisfying if Eugenides had in fact died in the pass when the gods were done with him, in balance for the divine finger on his side of the scales through so much of the book and indeed the series. And obviously part of me doesn't, because then the rest of the book would have been everyone else being devastated, and I do love all the characters, I don't wish to see them endlessly sad for the rest of the book. But.)
This is well taken. I remind myself that this is, ultimately, a YA series and that's a huge part of why she didn't go there.
...all of which I think is going to make me sound more critical of the book than I am actually
I had the same reaction! I enjoyed it! I thought it was good! But somehow the things I'm thinking about the most are the weaknesses in the book, which I did not anticipate.
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I KNOW.
I do wish the help of the gods had come at a higher cost, that we hadn't quite been done struggling against them yet.
Agreed. I liked where we ended with the gods, but I wish that there had been a bit more struggling (and at least one god offense!) before reaching that ending.
(Actually, a part of me thinks that it might have been more narratively satisfying if Eugenides had in fact died in the pass when the gods were done with him, in balance for the divine finger on his side of the scales through so much of the book and indeed the series. And obviously part of me doesn't, because then the rest of the book would have been everyone else being devastated, and I do love all the characters, I don't wish to see them endlessly sad for the rest of the book. But.)
This is well taken. I remind myself that this is, ultimately, a YA series and that's a huge part of why she didn't go there.
...all of which I think is going to make me sound more critical of the book than I am actually
I had the same reaction! I enjoyed it! I thought it was good! But somehow the things I'm thinking about the most are the weaknesses in the book, which I did not anticipate.