Scant Consolations

[rj_anderson]

Man, The King of Attolia is a good book. Being in the throes of revisions, I picked it up just now to see if I could find a wasted scene to make me feel better, and I couldn't find one.

Then I started reading and didn't want to put it down, which is silly since I've already read it twice in the past six months.

*shakes fist in general direction of the US* CURSE YOU, MEGAN WHALEN TURNER!

For not writing the next book already, I mean..

Comments

[penwiper26.livejournal.com]

I know, I've spent the past week practically memorizing the darn thing. It doesn't get old! I love things that are funny and serious at the same time, and the whole assassination sequence is that. "Costis, I'm speechless." "Not noticeably, Your Majesty."

And yes, I want the next book badly.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh, oh, you've read it! *is delighted* I'm so glad you did, and you loved it! But then, you ARE my LJ clone. :D

There is something so disturbing about the whole Gen/Attolia thing, particularly in light of what she did to him in Book II, and yet I ship them like whoa. It's very Dunnettish, really... but then MWT makes no secret of her fondness for Dunnett, so that's no surprise.

[penwiper26.livejournal.com]

Didn't know MWT was a Dunnett fan...but I'm not surprised.

Am with you on Gen/Attolia. My psyche is all very "No no! Yes yes! No no!..." with them.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

There is something quintessentially disturbing about a man afraid of the woman he loves -- and with good reason. Hello, Gen, masochist much? And yet MWT somehow makes it work. In a YA novel, no less. It's really unfair.

*laughs at your icon*

[jenny-moss.livejournal.com]

:) It's these things that do it . . . she's a clever girl, that Megan Whalen Turner.