{"id":4416,"date":"2018-01-03T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2018-01-01T09:45:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T17:45:48","slug":"mark-reads-games-wizards-play-chapter-2-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2018\/01\/mark-reads-games-wizards-play-chapter-2-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads ‘Games Wizards Play’: Chapter 2, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the first half of the second chapter of Games Wizards Play<\/i>, Nita works out some problems with an old friend of hers. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Young Wizards<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

WHOOPS I HAD TO DO IT AGAIN. While I am certainly feeling better, I still have a cough and my voice is not on the best terms. I am hoping that I will not have to do a last-minute split like this again, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, but MY POOR THROAT.<\/p>\n

Anyway: NITA! Oh, it was just so lovely to get back to her and her POV. I feel like it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been quite some time! So it was like returning to an old friend, sort of like GETTING TO SEE S\u00e2\u20ac\u2122REEE AGAIN, TOO. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dropped into a comfortable scenario, which is rife with references to Deep Wizardry<\/i>. The contrast between what Nita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up to with Kit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s day is a little funny to me. Though now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to entertain the notion that Nita isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t involved in the games because she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too cunning and it would instantly make any game unfair for her opposing team. THIS IS A GREAT THEORY.<\/p>\n

Like I said about the first chapter, I love that this book is opening with a tiny glimpse at the every day lives of the two main characters. For the past year, Nita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been involved in a project to help the cetacean community with WHALESARKS. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, she is just so pure!!!!! I love that she is so willing to help non-humans to slow down entropy in whatever tiny way she can, and troubleshooting whalesarks is certainly something she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s uniquely qualified for. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Nita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s intereactions with the three whales that I found most interesting, partially because it seems that Kit and Nita are on similar wavelengths in regards to their relationship. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help that Nita has witnessed the courtship of S\u00e2\u20ac\u2122reee and Hwiii\u00e2\u20ac\u2122sh for a while now, and that this odd pairing has made her think about what she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going through. That kind of stuff can be distracting, you know?<\/p>\n

Though there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a key difference here, of course: Kit and Nita are both wizards. Hwiii\u00e2\u20ac\u2122sh is not. (I still can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get over the fact that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a food critic. SO GREAT.) So they share an experience and a life that allows them to skip over the awkwardness and uncertainty that S\u00e2\u20ac\u2122reee is feeling, since she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not used to the idea that someone finds her intriguing because<\/i> she is a wizard and they are not. But just because Kit and Nita share this whole experience doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean it solves everything! And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad Duane is having them think about this, however briefly, because this stuff is important, and not just for romantic relationships. What do you want out of another person? What do you need? How do you change the way you talk to someone if your relationship with them has changed as well? And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sort of where these two are. Theyboth recognize an attraction to one another, as well as a desire for something more romantic. They are also both incredibly inexperienced with all of this, and so there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a natural and understandable trepidation at work here.<\/p>\n

I am just interested in seeing how it plays out.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/CAFkABLVzoQ<\/p>\n

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