{"id":4623,"date":"2018-07-24T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2018-07-22T14:41:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T21:41:30","slug":"mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-6-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2018\/07\/mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-6-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads ‘The Book of Night With Moon’: Chapter 6, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the first part of the sixth chapter of The Book of Night With Moon<\/i>, Rhiow heads to the Met to fulfill part of her day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s duties. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Feline Wizards<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is gonna be a LONG book, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a tad slow at this point, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going through that thing where I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what parts of this are vital for storytelling later or whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just a very, very detailed examination of this world.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Case in point: I get all of the stuff between Mike and Sue. It helps build up Rhiow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life at her home, and plus, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just plain fun<\/i>. I love seeing how humans are pretty much useless and impossible to communicate with. But there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also a contrast, a texture, providing by the opening scene. Rhiow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home is comfort; it is familiarity. The stakes are lower, the stresses are relatively inconsequential. But once Rhiow leaves this safe place, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on a mission that is dangerous, uncertain, and terrifying. That change makes the errantry all the more nerve-wracking.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Which is why I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a little confused about the singing part in Central Park. I get that we see Urruah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interests outside of wizardry, and we learn what human music might sound like to a cat. Those things are <\/i>interesting, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s such an odd choice otherwise to focus so much space within the chapter on this… is it a plot? Worldbuilding? Oh god, am I embarrassing myself because I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know where this is going? PROBABLY. I know it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also because I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t personally have much interest in this kind of music, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m dealing with a similar feeling to the whole Three Tenors reference earlier in the book. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cool but… it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just there? So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m struggling with any sort of commentary on that whole sequence because I can only see two explanations for it. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s part of another subplot, or<\/i> it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just detail for the world as a whole. Annnnnnddddd I am now dreading the fact that this may turn out to be a third option I never even considered, but OH WELL, THAT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S THE PRICE I PAY FOR DOING THIS.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, I am fully expecting that the next few chapters are basically going to destroy me? Look, this book might have a slower opening than I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m used to, but a lot has been set up that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about to be knocked over. The info in the Met is next, and then the Old Downsides with Arhu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first visit to that place??? Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, I am scared<\/i>. I know I should be, and I know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m being manipulated by this book, and I AM HAPPILY RUNNING FORWARDS INTO THIS NIGHTMARE.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/4I41eYykVnQ<\/p>\n

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