Books! Excitement! Shazam!

[osprey_archer]

YOU GUYS YOU GUYS YOU GUYS my parents are bringing me the latest Obernewtyn book from New Zealand! (They're on sabbatical. They have the best sabbaticals when I'm not around. They went to France for a year once. This was before I was born.)

It's apparently not actually the last Obernewtyn book, because the series is NEVER GOING TO END OH MY GOD. But NONETHELESS. After all these years of waiting, I finally get the next installment! Maybe some things will actually wrap up. Maybe they'll find Matthew! Maybe Mirrim will reappear! Maybe Elspeth and Rushton will finally be together for more than three pages!

No, that's probably too much to hope for.

I will be seeing my parents on Saturday. I can probably hold off diving into the book long enough to say "Welcome home."

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Finally: I've finished rereading! The Realms of the Gods! It only took me...a month and a half. *facepalm* I finally added it to my to-do list because clearly it wasn't happening any other way.

Most frustrating thing about this book: Daine and Numair realize their Epic Love for each other halfway through. Then they discuss reasons why their Epic Love might be troublesome. He is twice her age! And he is her teacher! Also, Daine just fell off a cliff and nearly got eaten by spidrens and maybe has a head wound, and therefore is in no shape to be starting a new relationship! Okay, they don't discuss that last one, but it's worth keeping in mind.

And then! And then! They drop the subject and NEVER DISCUSS IT AGAIN.

I am not sufficiently invested in Daine/Numair to want fic addressing this, but...I mean, if you're going to bring it up, you really ought to deal with it, right?

Most awesome thing about the book: darkings. They are shamelessly adorable. I should be irritated at being so manipulated, but I am way too busy going "ADORABLE INKBLOT CREATURES. Awwwwwwwwww."

Comments

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

Wait, they acknowledge IN-TEXT that he's her teacher and it's potentially problematic?

That...might blow Pierce's "she's not his student anymore, she's an adult and more mature than him anyway!" retconning out of the water....

Word on the darkings. Sigh.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Let's see. That's not one of the things they discuss explicitly, but right after their first make-out session Numair "got to his feet, cradling his student, friend, and love." (201)

So yeah, she's kind of still his student.

Mostly Numair frets that he might be taking advantage of her innocence, and he's too old for her, and Daine frets that most of his previous lovers have been beautiful, buxom, and older, and someday he might want an experienced woman again, and then Daine's like "Once we're home - once the war's done - we can work it out. We'll talk then."

And then they never talk about it again.

Also, I want darkings. They could be my minions.

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that kiboshes her "but she's not his student by then!" justification once people started pointing out that teacher/teenage student is possibly problematic to present in YA books.