{"id":4633,"date":"2018-08-01T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4633"},"modified":"2018-07-29T07:29:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T14:29:58","slug":"mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-7-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2018\/08\/mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-7-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads &#8216;The Book of Night With Moon&#8217;: Chapter 7, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the second part of the seventh chapter of <i>The Book of Night With Moon<\/i>, Rhiow leads the feline wizards further into the Downsides. 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><b>Trigger Warning: For brief discussion of claustrophobia<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Oh, so this was <i>exactly<\/i> as creepy as I thought it was gonna be. GREAT. ALL GREAT, NOTHING BAD. This is <i>definitely<\/i> not an awful image:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It would have distracted her from the image that always struck her, when they were forced to come this way, that they were walking into a particularly fangy set of jaws, backed by a dark and hungry gullet of stone. If you weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t careful, you could imagine the jaws closing\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m good! Real good! I will not be entering any caverns voluntarily in the near future! Because this kind of stuff is genuinely unsettling to me, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do super well in closed-in spaces. (Or in some crowds, too. That is a bit more context dependent.) Duane does a masterful job of writing this descent and giving the reader a real visceral view of this journey. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so upsetting! Part of that is because we know the Wise Ones exist, they are <i>terrible<\/i>, and we also have no goddam idea if they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to turn up at any moment of this sequence. The unknowable element of this is how Duane builds up the suspense, sure, but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also the physicality of it all. The fact that in their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153true\u00e2\u20ac\u009d spirit forms, these feline wizards take up much more space means that the walls much more literally feel as if they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re closing in on these characters.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well, one more thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why are you so nervous?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Saash breathed out. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We were down here before, about a sun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s-round ago. Not a good trip.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What happened?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bad things,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Urruah said from behind Arhu, his voice plainly suggesting that one might happen right now if Arhu didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t shut up.<\/p>\n<p>He shut up.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BLESS THIS ENTIRE EXCHANGE. Funny and also: not okay? But the tonal shift works well because you can see Arhu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s emotional response to all of this fall closer in line with what the other cats are experiencing. Granted, we are close in Rhiow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head through all of this, but despite that POV, you can still just how seriously they all take this. They don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t talk much at all, only when necessary, and then when they <i>do<\/i>, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because the stresses of the place are getting to them. (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m referring to the little spat they almost have after running into one another.) These are <i>chatty<\/i> characters, and most of this journey takes place in silence, and it is so EERIE.<\/p>\n<p>So was this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The light went out.<\/p>\n<p>Rhiow stopped short. <i>I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do that\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, <i>no<\/i>, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m gonna see myself out right now. BUT I CAN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T. I HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS. That includes Duane dropping a secret into the text, teasing me that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a secret, and then NOT TELLING ME THE SECRET. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, what the <i>hell<\/i> is the missing symbol in Arhu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name in wizardry? Why does it shock Rhiow so much??? WHY IS IT BROUGHT UP AGAIN WITHOUT TELLING ME THE MEANING? (Because you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all mean.)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As for the wizardry done at the catenary itself, I felt torn. I still kept expecting something terrible to show up, and this chapter is hardly over. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so much more to come! But the science terminology kept getting more and more dense, and sometimes, I <i>do<\/i> have a problem with visualizing descriptive scenes, particularly when they are describing things that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a concrete example of. The stuff about buds and the circles of power were a little hard to imagine, but that could entirely be on my end.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anyway! There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more to this chapter. I am going to brace myself for some Wise Ones, because they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re coming, right?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/N743r-r3nF4<\/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 part of the seventh chapter of The Book of Night With Moon, Rhiow leads the feline wizards further into the Downsides. Intrigued? 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