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hunters_forestWe're through - evil princes have been vanquished, side characters have been disposed of, and Tarrant and Damien are safely (?) on their way back. Time to look back at book three!
Discussion Posts
Here are all our discussion posts for WTNF:
Book 1 (with links to all Book 1 discussion posts)
Book 2 (with links to all Book 2 discussion posts)
Book 3:
Chapters 29-30
Chapter 31
Chapters 32-33
Chapter 34
Chapters 35-36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapters 40-42
Chapters 43-44
Chapters 45-46
Chapter 47-48
Chapter 49 & epilogue
Some Thoughts
Now's the time to bring up anything about this book that you've been thinking about, anything you've been meaning to say but haven't found the right occasion yet. Anything goes!
Here are a few thoughts to get us started:
A few of us have already started discussing this in the comments to the last discussion post, but how do you feel about this book's ending? Does it work for you? How plausible is it that after everything he's done, that one divining is what finally breaks Tarrant's compact with the Unnamed?
The end of the book leaves quite a lot open. Now, I read the three books in three days, so I didn't really have any time to speculate in between, but I do wonder what I'd have thought and expected from the third book. If you can recall your own first reading: Looking forward from here, what was on your mind? Where did you imagine things would go?
Moving on to WTNF as a whole - now that we've read and discussed both of them chapter by chapter, how do you think it compares to BSR? Better? Worse? Holding together well? (I make no secret of the fact that WTNF is my favourite book of the trilogy precisely because I do think it holds together best as a single narrative, whereas the other two don't seem nearly as stringent and unified to me.)
After BSR, a lot of us said that we'd have liked to see more of the "real" Ciani with all her memories intact. Who's the character from WTNF you'd most have liked to see more of? Who could you have done without? Personally, I love Hesseth and think she was shortchanged not only by the novel as a whole - she had so little to do! - but also by the way she was killed off, having so little effect. She deserved better. *grumbles* With Jenseny's story, on the other hand, I'm completely satisfied - while I'd have liked to see more interaction between her and Tarrant, it didn't fit the story, and it all worked very well for me. Despite the whole child saviour thing. *g*)
We'll be taking a bit of a break before we delve into Crown of Shadows - time for some of you to catch up, maybe, if you haven't had the time to keep up with the schedule! Remember, older discussion posts always remain open; feel free to commment there any time. :-)
Discussion Posts
Here are all our discussion posts for WTNF:
Book 1 (with links to all Book 1 discussion posts)
Book 2 (with links to all Book 2 discussion posts)
Book 3:
Chapters 29-30
Chapter 31
Chapters 32-33
Chapter 34
Chapters 35-36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapters 40-42
Chapters 43-44
Chapters 45-46
Chapter 47-48
Chapter 49 & epilogue
Some Thoughts
Now's the time to bring up anything about this book that you've been thinking about, anything you've been meaning to say but haven't found the right occasion yet. Anything goes!
Here are a few thoughts to get us started:
A few of us have already started discussing this in the comments to the last discussion post, but how do you feel about this book's ending? Does it work for you? How plausible is it that after everything he's done, that one divining is what finally breaks Tarrant's compact with the Unnamed?
The end of the book leaves quite a lot open. Now, I read the three books in three days, so I didn't really have any time to speculate in between, but I do wonder what I'd have thought and expected from the third book. If you can recall your own first reading: Looking forward from here, what was on your mind? Where did you imagine things would go?
Moving on to WTNF as a whole - now that we've read and discussed both of them chapter by chapter, how do you think it compares to BSR? Better? Worse? Holding together well? (I make no secret of the fact that WTNF is my favourite book of the trilogy precisely because I do think it holds together best as a single narrative, whereas the other two don't seem nearly as stringent and unified to me.)
After BSR, a lot of us said that we'd have liked to see more of the "real" Ciani with all her memories intact. Who's the character from WTNF you'd most have liked to see more of? Who could you have done without? Personally, I love Hesseth and think she was shortchanged not only by the novel as a whole - she had so little to do! - but also by the way she was killed off, having so little effect. She deserved better. *grumbles* With Jenseny's story, on the other hand, I'm completely satisfied - while I'd have liked to see more interaction between her and Tarrant, it didn't fit the story, and it all worked very well for me. Despite the whole child saviour thing. *g*)
We'll be taking a bit of a break before we delve into Crown of Shadows - time for some of you to catch up, maybe, if you haven't had the time to keep up with the schedule! Remember, older discussion posts always remain open; feel free to commment there any time. :-)
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Date: 2009-05-15 07:53 am (UTC)Far fetched, I know ;)
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Date: 2009-05-15 07:59 am (UTC)(I love these books, really I do. Which is why I want them to be perfect, dammit! *g*)