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[adiva_calandia]

IN OTHER NEWS:

Have been rereading Door Into Fire. God I love Herewiss. And SUNSPARK. Oh Spark. (Spark/Fred OTP. <3333) (For those who don't know, Sunspark/[SPOILER] is the reason I have "bisexual interspecies polyamory" in my interests, courtesy rymenhild. And it WAS unique until slutbamwalla and lienne stole it. :P)

I do still think this is a peculiarly disjointed book for DD -- I thought something similar when I was reading Stealing the Elf King's Roses earlier in the summer (damn, I still need to finish that), and I think it's mainly that you can see DD trying to find her feet with world-building in both -- but I still love the basic storyline.

I had also forgotten how many "ahahaha what" parallels there are between this and Wheel of Time. (Well, there are patterns within the Pattern, and no way to understand them all.) Ahahaha what.

The temptation to play around with either Spark or Herewiss in mixed_muses is strong, even though I haven't read the other books in the series in forever and I'm afeared I could do neither of them justice.

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[lienne.livejournal.com]

I know absolutely zip about Wheel of Time. But that sounds pretty awesome.

[adiva_calandia]

Ah! Then -- he's the first male in centuries to have enough of the Flame (vital power thing whatever) to use, and he's kind of on his own for figuring out how to use it because all the women who have it won't or can't teach him how to access and control it.

Also there's stuff about how Herewiss' lover Freelorn is the rightful king, but, um, honestly I am a lot more interested in the romance and the magic than the politics. *shallow*

[lienne.livejournal.com]

<333333333

Romance and magic are awesome!

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Also, the rightful king stuff doesn't... exactly hold together so much. Have you ever tried figuring out how royal lineage passes in that series? It makes no sense at all, because DD never quite figured out how the Responsibility to bear children before marriage interacts with legitimacy of said children. Cillmod is (ROT13) gur yvba'f puvyq gbb, vs V erpnyy pbeerpgyl, fb ubj vf ur nal yrff bs n evtugshy xvat guna Serrybea? Naq jura rirelbar trgf zneevrq ng gur raq bs Obbx 3, ubj qb gurl qrgrezvar juvpu bs gur znal, znal puvyqera bs gur zneevntr vf urve gb gur guebar?

[adiva_calandia]

I hadn't even thought about how the Responsibility messes with inheritance. *amused*

This is what I mean by finding her feet with world-building. TotF -- and StEKR, for that matter -- are both trying very hard to world-build without As You Know-ing or similar, and they succeed a majority of the time. But you get the sense that the world has been built in approximately the same way the exposition is delivered: in patches.

Or it could just be DD's usual casual relationship with continuity reliant on Rule of Cool. (Oh, TV Tropes. What would I do without you?)