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skygiantsLunch break booklogging!
Only a year or so after I promised I would, I finally caught all the way up to the latest in the Young Wizards saga, Diane Duane's Wizards at War. Most prominent reaction: Carmela is the awesomest awesome to ever awesome. I so very love characters who stand up for non-wizarding badassery! Seeing her develop has been my favorite thing about the later books.
However, the twelve-year-old part of me that will always think of the first three as The Originals was not hugely impressed by the whole 'look, it's a shiny new Lone Power' plot. The point was that the Lone Power was redeemed! It was always going to be a long slow process, but . . . maybe I'm not getting something here, but isn't cloning and rebooting the Lone Power kind of missing the point of that entirely? In searching for a dramatic and cool new concept, it feels like the author sort of invalidated the old one, and that makes me sad. Also, the Hesper turning out to be a Downtrodden Handmaid was a development I could spot a mile away. It could have worked for me better, I think, if there had been more emphasis put on the relation between Lone Powers Mark I and II - the Hesper has to defy an overwhelming authority, which is, I gather, how the Lone Power sees his own rebellion, and that could have been very cool if played up more, and much less black-and-white, which as it is it sort of came out being.
However, the twelve-year-old Nita/Kit 'shipper in me was made happy by subtle developments. (The twelve-year-old Nita/Ed 'shipper I try to stomp down with heavy boots.)
Only a year or so after I promised I would, I finally caught all the way up to the latest in the Young Wizards saga, Diane Duane's Wizards at War. Most prominent reaction: Carmela is the awesomest awesome to ever awesome. I so very love characters who stand up for non-wizarding badassery! Seeing her develop has been my favorite thing about the later books.
However, the twelve-year-old part of me that will always think of the first three as The Originals was not hugely impressed by the whole 'look, it's a shiny new Lone Power' plot. The point was that the Lone Power was redeemed! It was always going to be a long slow process, but . . . maybe I'm not getting something here, but isn't cloning and rebooting the Lone Power kind of missing the point of that entirely? In searching for a dramatic and cool new concept, it feels like the author sort of invalidated the old one, and that makes me sad. Also, the Hesper turning out to be a Downtrodden Handmaid was a development I could spot a mile away. It could have worked for me better, I think, if there had been more emphasis put on the relation between Lone Powers Mark I and II - the Hesper has to defy an overwhelming authority, which is, I gather, how the Lone Power sees his own rebellion, and that could have been very cool if played up more, and much less black-and-white, which as it is it sort of came out being.
However, the twelve-year-old Nita/Kit 'shipper in me was made happy by subtle developments. (The twelve-year-old Nita/Ed 'shipper I try to stomp down with heavy boots.)
