In the third part of A Wizard of Mars<\/i>, a dinosaur shows up in Nita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s backyard, and this is just the tip of the iceberg, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Young Wizards<\/i>.<\/p>\n
IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S SO MUCH WORSE THAN I THOUGHT IT WAS. AND I THOUGHT IT WAS PRETTY FUCKING BAD<\/i>, Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL. Oh my god, what do I do with any of this??? How is Duane going to resolve this nightmare? Please tell me that Kit isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually<\/i> gone because\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t???<\/p>\n
That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a clue<\/i> how this is going to end, so\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 bravo??? Bravo, Diane Duane, for making me not know anything?<\/p>\n
Let me back up, because look, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, I was not ready for this final third of the chapter to feature Mamvish THE ENTIRE TIME. If it was bad enough that Tom was disappointed and furious with Kit after what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d done, this was catastrophically worse. Kit pissed off Mamvish<\/i>. MAMVISH. The most powerful wizard we have ever met! So I get why she initially seemed to lash out at Nita, suspecting that Kit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s partner helped him get around his band. Can you blame her??? But she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quick to drop the anger when she realizes that Nita had no part in Kit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actions. AND THEN THIS BOOK BECOMES A JOURNEY WITH MAMVISH AND NITA. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so cool! It had been so long since we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d last seen Mamvish that I had assumed she wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to appear until after everything had been resolved. However, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brilliant to have her in the climax itself; it raises the stakes. This was thrilling and scary enough when Nita was the sole focus. But once you put someone as powerful as Mamvish into the story, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t diminish the tension. Rather, it accents<\/i> it. When Mamvish states aloud that this is going to be a difficult task, you know she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not messing around. So, instead of feeling safe because Nita was with Mamvish, I actually worried more<\/i>. What would these wizards be met with?<\/p>\n
A disaster<\/i>. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, Mamvish had to put up a shield on THE WHOLE OF MARS because the wizardries activated by Khretef\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manipulation of Kit had long been put into motion. The ancient city was already returning; the atmosphere was changing to make it livable for the Shamaska-Eilitt. What if someone on Earth had seen any of this?<\/p>\n
Except that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the whole point: in one of the more shocking scenes in the book, Iskard claims to not care<\/i> about Earth. And I know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m jumping ahead a bit here, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not because Mamvish\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Nita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trip to the palace is boring or not worthy of commentary. However, the actual conversation the two wizards have with the rulers of the People of the First World is so incredibly disturbing that I need to yell. A LOT. Iskard, Aurilelde, and Rorsik are\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, beyond selfish. That word doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem strong enough! They openly admit to what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done and the effects it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have on the solar system:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We not only accept it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Rorsik, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153but we embrace it. The other planet is concern of ours. If they are not strong enough to accept the return of the People of the First World to the system where we were the First Life, then they should learn such strength. Or possibly vacate that world in favor of a people better suited to occupy it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S SO HORRIFYING, ISN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T IT. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not even being subtle<\/i>, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. They truly believe they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the better society, despite that whole little thing where they had to go into hiding because their constant warmongering nearly got them wiped out<\/i>. Rorsik seems to conveniently forget that detail, doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t he? They also don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care that Khretef used reincarnation (or at least a version of it) to manipulate a teenager into setting them free. Aurilelde brags<\/i> about it in a roundabout way! She knew that Khretef would \u00e2\u20ac\u0153absorb\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kit, and of course, she never once told him that. It didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter, as long as she got precisely what she wanted.<\/p>\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cruel. And there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no doubt in my mind that practically everything about this is wrong and cruel. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even quite understand what Aurilelde did to Nita, but it seems like she just dropped her on Mars without her life-support force field, so\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 she intended to kill Nita, right? I WOULD ARGUE THAT THE GIANT WAVE THAT IS DEFINITELY NOT A DREAM<\/i> OUTRIGHT CONFIRMS THAT. Oh my god, these people only care about themselves. Everyone else is just a tool to help them establish their regime again.<\/p>\n THIS IS SO BAD. How is Nita going to get out of this???<\/p>\n https:\/\/youtu.be\/YlOkzS0o1l8<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n -\u00c2\u00a0Please visit my new site for all announcements<\/a>. If you’d rather not have to rely on checking a website regularly, sign up for my newsletter instead<\/a>! This will cover all news for Mark Reads, Mark Watches, and my fiction releases.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the third part of A Wizard of Mars, a dinosaur shows up in Nita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s backyard, and this is just the tip of the iceberg, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Young Wizards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[530,510],"tags":[513,511],"class_list":["post-4301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-wizard-of-mars","category-young-wizards","tag-diane-duane","tag-mark-reads-young-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}