{"id":4627,"date":"2018-07-26T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2018-07-26T08:40:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T15:40:36","slug":"mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-6-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2018\/07\/mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-6-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads &#8216;The Book of Night With Moon&#8217;: Chapter 6, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the second half of the sixth chapter of <i>The Book of Night With Moon<\/i>, Rhiow takes Arhu to the Met to get an important message. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read <i>Feline Wizards<\/i>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, the Met is such a cool place, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been meaning to go use my NYC ID card to get a year membership for free. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of the first places I went to when I visited New York long, long ago, and it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter how many times I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been; it has a special magic to it that never seems to fade away. (And seriously, I am certain I have not seen every room, despite having been there between 15 and 20 times. The last time I was there, I found this massive room that was sort of near the Great Hall that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never seen before. I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIND IT SINCE.) (Oh my god, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a TARDIS.)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Duane takes this place, and she transforms it very subtly by revealing a layer of information that isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t there normally. Museums by themselves already are overflowing with information, and the way humans contextualize that information for our own understanding adds meaning, too. But once the feline wizards walk in the Met, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something extra everywhere: their own history. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s confirmed here that long ago, the People and humans spoke a language that shared enough similarities that it allowed them to communicate. (Duane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s theory posits that cats <i>accidentally<\/i> inspired mummification and Egyptian death rituals. WHOOPS.) Which is FASCINATING to me, and it also means that the Egyptian wing has a context for the feline wizards that is otherwise invisible to non-wizards. Thus, Rhiow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important message is in one of the pieces here, and I loved that we got this miniature tour while Rhiow searched for it. In doing so, Duane gets to worldbuild by giving us tidbits of history while <i>also<\/i> ramping up the tension. When would Rhiow discover the message\/clue that was left for her? What would it say???<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So, I think that:<\/p>\n<p>1) The conversation that the cats have with Arhu about Living Ones is foreshadowing for Arhu actually meeting one\/seeing one later. I BET IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S GONNA HAPPEN.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2) There are gonna be at least a hundred more jokes made about how humans think they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the only intelligent species on earth. I will enjoy every single one of them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>3) Aaurh the Mighty is the same as the One\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Champion! At least they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the People\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s version, that is.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>4) I made this point on video, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m curious if there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a correlation between the Underworld reference in the palimpsest for Aapep and the Old Downsides? Maybe? Is this where I vocalize an incredibly obvious thing and all of you laugh at me? Probably. I know this must be important because <i>why<\/i> is there part of a spell in Aapep\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s palimpsest? What is the spell for? Is <i>that<\/i> what Saash actually needed?<\/p>\n<p>5) The biggest single clue here that I picked up on was the palimpsest\/story that belonged to sa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Rrahh. Which is not saying it was subtle at ALL, because Arhu does that weird thing where they become a conduit for the Whisperer AGAIN. I feel like sa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Rrahh is the being we saw in the opening scene of this book. Right? The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Huntress, who kills unmindfully, in rage, and without warning, and as unreasonably raises up again\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE THING WE SAW. And Arhu once warned (with that weird Whisperer voice) that this thing had come once before and once to devour and all that. So, is this also another manifestation of the Lone Power, if I understand what Arhu says? Or just a companion of Aapep? The last line is really what made me feel (so far, that is) that this is what Rhiow was meant to hear:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In every empty place and in all darknesses she may be found, seeking, and angry, for still she knows not what she seeks.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That gate opened onto an empty void, right??? So that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where it came from??? I AM TRYING, OKAY.<\/p>\n<p>6) We are absolutely gonna get another reference to Urruah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name being a pun. BLESS.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>7) See, but then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m given a new name: Urrua. Is that <i>another<\/i> name for the Lone One or a separate being, too?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T KNOW YET. But I assume <i>all<\/i> of this information is important to the story, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m gonna try my best to remember it as we go forward. Well, go forward into a <i>nightmare<\/i>, one that Arhu is surprisingly excited for. Honestly, I expected terror from him, not elation. But it made sense once I thought about it. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been learning so much theory, so many rules, and to him, this sounds like his first chance to get a piece of the action rather than just listen to the adults talk.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I have a very bad feeling that this is not going to be an adventure at <i>all<\/i>. Oh, Arhu, I AM WORRIED FOR YOU.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/Qsbu56GW3tk<\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>My YA contemporary debut, <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/AngerIsAGift\">ANGER IS A GIFT<\/a>, is now out in the world!\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 second half of the sixth chapter of The Book of Night With Moon, Rhiow takes Arhu to the Met to get an important message. Intrigued? 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