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Chaos and Order (Donaldson)
This is getting its own post for no good reason, the not-so-great reason being that the other books I finished in March (the Martine and the Orieux) were good enough that I wanted them to have their own posts :P
In any case this was... hm. More of the same. The worldbuilding and the plotting and the way it deviates from Ring canon just enough to keep me on my toes continues to be entertaining enough to keep me reading; the more general milieu continues to be very, uh, 90's.
-Okay, I was surprised and sort of devastated by the bit where Min doesn't make the choice Brünnhilde does, to rescue Sieglinde in defiance of Wotan's orders. And Donaldson knew exactly what he was doing there; his synopsis of the Ring in the Afterword of the first book makes that very clear. And of course Min doesn't, given her character and the worldbuilding, but I had assumed she would up until she didn't. Well done, Donaldson.
-... and then there's one bit where Morn snaps at her former rapist/physical-and-emotional-abuser Angus for, y'know, abusing and raping her, and then everyone else is like "girl, you need to apologize!" and then she does! (Literally says "I'm sorry.") and I was like, GAH. DO YOU EVEN HEAR YOURSELF, DONALDSON.
-Are we FINALLY done with Nick Succorso? Please? Can Angus also go out in a blaze of sacrificial something soon so we don't have to HAVE these conversations any more?
I feel like there's some sunk cost fallacy going on here, like, I am gonna finish this fifth book because I've already read four of them and so now I gotta read the fifth. Well, okay, that's not the only reason. I wouldn't be still reading if I weren't still interested in how the gods are brought down, but there is definitely some of that going on.
In any case this was... hm. More of the same. The worldbuilding and the plotting and the way it deviates from Ring canon just enough to keep me on my toes continues to be entertaining enough to keep me reading; the more general milieu continues to be very, uh, 90's.
-Okay, I was surprised and sort of devastated by the bit where Min doesn't make the choice Brünnhilde does, to rescue Sieglinde in defiance of Wotan's orders. And Donaldson knew exactly what he was doing there; his synopsis of the Ring in the Afterword of the first book makes that very clear. And of course Min doesn't, given her character and the worldbuilding, but I had assumed she would up until she didn't. Well done, Donaldson.
-... and then there's one bit where Morn snaps at her former rapist/physical-and-emotional-abuser Angus for, y'know, abusing and raping her, and then everyone else is like "girl, you need to apologize!" and then she does! (Literally says "I'm sorry.") and I was like, GAH. DO YOU EVEN HEAR YOURSELF, DONALDSON.
-Are we FINALLY done with Nick Succorso? Please? Can Angus also go out in a blaze of sacrificial something soon so we don't have to HAVE these conversations any more?
I feel like there's some sunk cost fallacy going on here, like, I am gonna finish this fifth book because I've already read four of them and so now I gotta read the fifth. Well, okay, that's not the only reason. I wouldn't be still reading if I weren't still interested in how the gods are brought down, but there is definitely some of that going on.