{"id":4539,"date":"2018-05-07T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4539"},"modified":"2018-05-06T06:49:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T13:49:41","slug":"mark-reads-on-ordeal-mamvish-chapter-2-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2018\/05\/mark-reads-on-ordeal-mamvish-chapter-2-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads &#8220;On Ordeal: Mamvish&#8221; &#8211; Chapter 2, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first half of the second chapter of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On Ordeal: Mamvish,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d THIS WAS UNEXPECTED, AND EVEN SAYING THAT IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. 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>HOLY SHIT, MAMVISH\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S STORY IS ALREADY THE MOST RIDICULOUS OF THEM ALL AND I FEEL LIKE I BARELY GOT STARTED. Just\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 okay, let me jump into this, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Because now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m understanding why the second chapter is named \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Quest.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d If there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an Ordeal hidden within this, I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t figured out <i>how<\/i> Duane will bring it about. Instead, the pacing picks up for this story as we follow Vish on\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 look, saying it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153journey\u00e2\u20ac\u009d doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give the scope that is necessary. FIVE YEARS PASS IN JUST THE FIRST <i>HALF<\/i> OF THIS STORY. Five!!! And in those five years, we see just how <i>dedicated<\/i> Vish is in achieving her goal of setting the world right.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what that means or entails\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re missing the logistics\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talk about those five years.<\/p>\n<p><b>Year Zero<\/b><\/p>\n<p>WALKING. SHE WALKS AND BARELY EATS FOR A GODDAMN YEAR. She was just <i>born<\/i>! Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s simmer in that knowledge right now, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. She is born, she consumes those who sacrificed themselves to gain their knowledge and their voices, and then she just <i>immediately sets out to make the world aright.<\/i> NONE OF US MEASURE UP TO THE GOODNESS OF MAMVISH. I was busy filling diapers and crying and being the worst, and I was <i>certainly<\/i> not on some epic quest to right all the wrongs of my entire world. <i>Entire<\/i> world, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Not just her immediate one. THE WHOLE DAMN THING.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Holy shit.<\/p>\n<p><b>Year One<\/b><\/p>\n<p>After a <i>year<\/i> (!!!!), she finally makes it to the Tauwff gathering place that one of the memories guides her to. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called Bethesath and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153million lengths\u00e2\u20ac\u009d away. A million. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m repeating this both for dramatic effect and to try and accept the sheer absurdity of her commitment: A MILLION. And y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, this is <i>child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s play<\/i> compared to where this story goes because Vish sees what she wants, what she needs, and what must happen. And then she plots for a few days, and then she goes after it. Look, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t figure out what she was doing once she got to Bethesath; I was thinking that maybe she was just going to get\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 advice??? I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T KNOW WHY I THOUGHT THIS WHEN I ALREADY KNEW HOW SHIT WORKED ON THIS PLANET. I mean, I picked up on the unnerving detail of Tarsheh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s technique. Anyone whom he invited back to his cave never came back out. He preyed on the vulnerable and the desperate. HE WAS TERRIBLE. And never, in a million years, did I ever expect that <i>one-year old Mamvish<\/i> would do this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And while Tarsheh was still laughing at her and just starting to bend down over her with his mouth wide open and showing every tooth, from her coiled-down crouch Vish sprang up at him and fastened her jaws into his neck just under the jaw.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She kills Tarsheh with one bite. She then consumes him in three days. SHE DOES THIS ALL WHILE ONLY BEING ONE-YEAR OLD.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in awe. AND I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M NOT EVEN REMOTELY DONE.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Years Two, Three, Four, and Five<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I am amused and entertained by the fact that even though Mamvish consumed Tarsheh and honored him with the proper Protocols, he is STILL angry and spiteful of her <i>even while he is nothing but a voice in her head<\/i>. Like, I almost admire that level of petty, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. I also think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just <i>fascinating<\/i> as a worldbuilding detail. Who says these voices have to <i>agree <\/i>with the person who consumed them?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From this point, FOUR YEARS pass, and in those four years, Mamvish does not stray from her mission. She might be discouraged at times, and Duane doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t avoid those disappointments. Mavish wants to change the cultural fabric of her entire world; that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <i>not<\/i> going to be easy, and she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to find detractors <i>everywhere<\/i>. This is the way her world is, right? Why change it?<\/p>\n<p>Yet she doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t back down. She tracks a Tauwff rumored to be the fastest Tauwff <i>ever<\/i>, all because she believes that this wisdom will help her in her journey. The scene where she meets Firtuth and tells her what she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trying to do is really sweet, a perfect contrast to the more violent sequence with Tarsheh. Firtuth recognizes the value in Mamvish\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quest, and she <i>wants<\/i> to be part of it. But what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the plan for it? When does Mamvish stop questing and start <i>changing<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/lXaylAaB1QE<\/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 half of the second chapter of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On Ordeal: Mamvish,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d THIS WAS UNEXPECTED, AND EVEN SAYING THAT IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. 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-4539","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\/4539","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=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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