{"id":4519,"date":"2018-04-19T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4519"},"modified":"2018-04-10T13:45:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T20:45:47","slug":"mark-reads-on-ordeal-roshaun-chapter-3-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2018\/04\/mark-reads-on-ordeal-roshaun-chapter-3-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads &#8220;On Ordeal: Roshaun&#8221; &#8211; Chapter 3, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first part of the third chapter of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On Ordeal: Roshaun,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d OH NO. SOMETHING BAD IS GONNA HAPPEN. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read <i>Young Wizards<\/i>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sum up this entire section with one quote, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6a peculiar thought pushed its way to the forefront of his mind and took hold of him, impossible to ignore:<\/p>\n<p><i>That was too easy<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh. OH NO. See, I suspected <i>something<\/i> was wrong because of the page count. WE ALL KNOW THIS FEELING: When you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re reading a book and the main conflict is resolved, but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still a ton of pages left, IT IS TIME TO PANIC. However, even if there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a whole left in this story, <i>Young Wizards<\/i> fans know that something is up: we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve witnessed at least four Ordeals in full, and all of them were mercilessly difficult. They were so challenging that each of these four characters\u00e2\u20ac\u201dNita, Kit, Dairine, and Darryl\u00e2\u20ac\u201dapproached a point where they felt it was impossible to succeed. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a <i>huge<\/i> part of an Ordeal! Is a person suited to face off with the Lone One in Its many incarnations? Their ideal <i>must<\/i> test that integral component of a person, and Roshaun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ordeal does\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Well, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do that, does it?<\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not an attempt to discount what he accomplishes because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still incredible. Duane manages to imbue this first part of the chapter with a palpable excitement. Roshaun is doing it!!! He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s using wizardry to help save <i>three whole planets<\/i>! Not just that, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s through the reactions of those Archaints he interacts with that contribute to this. These people, who are total strangers to him <i>and<\/i> are going through the most traumatic event of their lives, treat him with reverence and awe. It is, in many ways, exactly what Roshaun expected. Not <i>everything<\/i> is, but this part of the experience clearly thrills him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rho found this funny\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnot to mention even headier than being called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Emissary\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for the first time\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand found himself having trouble not bursting out laughing at the sudden wash of amazed respect from the other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Contrast this with much of what we saw in the first chapter and the early part of chapter two. Roshaun felt isolated, under-appreciated, and invisible, as he was nothing but an unworthy burden on everyone around him. Of <i>course<\/i> he was going to respond this way to positive attention! And I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anything necessarily wrong with feeling appreciated and respected! IT IS A FANTASTIC THING TO FEEL, especially if you <i>haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/i> felt that before. It carries Roshaun through this experience as he navigates the complicated bureaucracies of Archaint decision-making, it helps him appear confident and certain, and when he actually achieves success by taming Peklimut, he is overcome with elation. Well, exhaustion, too. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always a physical cost to wizardry! It was a pleasure to read, and I felt so happy for Roshaun.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and I also knew that something wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t right. The Lone One was <i>just<\/i> Peklimut fighting back? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <i>it<\/i>? Surely, it can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have been this simple. I WAS INCREDIBLY SUSPICIOUS. It didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help that as this very question haunted Roshaun, he asked an even more important one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Every wizard is the answer to a question. Today was my turn at last to be the answer to the question, and answer it I did.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6But who <\/i>asked<i> it?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>HI, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M REAL UNCOMFORTABLE. Because it was <i>Avseh<\/i> who asked the question, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what this means. Does Avseh have some ulterior motive? Was she tricked into manipulating Roshaun to unknowingly work for the Lost Aethyr? Why is Mevseh so suspicious of Roshaun? WHAT IS GOING ON???<\/p>\n<p>vid<\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>My YA contemporary debut, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markoshiro.com\/blog\/2017\/9\/22\/i-am-proud-to-announce-my-ya-contemporary-debut-anger-is-a-gift\">ANGER IS A GIFT<\/a>, is now available for pre-order!\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><strong>If you&#8217;d like to stay up-to-date on all announcements regarding my books, <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/ey636\">sign up for my newsletter<\/a>! DO IT.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first part of the third chapter of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On Ordeal: Roshaun,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d OH NO. SOMETHING BAD IS GONNA HAPPEN. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Young Wizards.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[542,510],"tags":[513,511],"class_list":["post-4519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interim-errantry-2","category-young-wizards","tag-diane-duane","tag-mark-reads-young-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519","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=4519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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