{"id":4635,"date":"2018-08-03T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4635"},"modified":"2018-07-29T07:31:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T14:31:06","slug":"mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-7-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2018\/08\/mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-7-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads ‘The Book of Night With Moon’: Chapter 7, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the third and final part of the seventh chapter of The Book of Night With Moon<\/i>, I WAS NOT READY FOR WHAT JUST HAPPENED. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Feline Wizards<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh my god, oh my GOD, I just… dinosaurs. Dinosaurs.<\/p>\n

D I N O S A U R S.<\/p>\n

I am not entirely<\/i> surprised by this because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what the Wise Ones seemed like in some sense? But the confirmation that saurians are the Wise Ones in the old Downsides was.. awe-inspiring. Terrifying. INCREDIBLY OVERWHELMING. I know I have written about my early love for dinosaurs, and I admitted that Jurassic Park<\/i> was part of that. And I love that Duane references both that and the sequel as a means by which the cultural obsession with dinosaurs was reignited. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true! Both those films changed a lot of our lives, and I spent many years obsession over these creatures. I remember reading Crichton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book, checking out countless books from the library, watching all the documentaries available, building (terrible) dinosaurs out of LEGOs… it was a LOT, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But one thing that stuck through all of it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand trust me, there are a lot of things, as I was certainly one of those kids who got super pedantic about how dinosaurs are represented in popular culture\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwas how ferocious many of these creatures were. And not by our understanding of that term! We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve literally never seen many creatures who were as fast or as large as those that used to live on Earth, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I thought about as I was reading this sequence. Actually, there was a lot going through my mind, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. I truly felt bad for Arhu throughout this because that poor kitten has had a ROUGH life so far. He survived the attack at the beginning of the novel\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbarely!!\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand now, his Ordeal has revealed itself through this horrifying experience. Do I understand what that Ordeal is? FUCK NO. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s related to the symbol in his name that Rhiow notices, something she later refers to as The Eye, but I am not certain at all what that is supposed to entail.<\/p>\n

Even worse, as Saash struggles to complete the wizardry that will fix the gate in Grand Central, the onslaught is so overwhelming, so complete, that Duane seemed to have crafted a truly impossible situation. Rhiow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s back-up spell, the one that could<\/i> have worked best against the saurians, only had a chance if Urruah dropped the circle shield, and there was no way Rhiow could deploy a wizardry instantaneously. Meanwhile, WHAT THE HELL IS ARHU CHANNELING? Why does he keep doing that? My guess\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich I know is incomplete\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis that this voice, the symbol, and Arhu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cryptic warning about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the greater one,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Father,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the son,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was all Rhiow and the others needed as confirmation of what Arhu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ordeal is about. Maybe that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the manifestation of the Lone Power within<\/i> the Wise Ones??? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible, right?<\/p>\n

I also wanted to talk about Saash\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s solution to the problem. The Young Wizards<\/i> books were certainly not devoid of violence. Particularly in the last few books, there were some grisly sequences. (Much of the stuff on Hesper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s world was… A LOT.) But since this book has a more adult slant, I can see how Duane can use violence in ways that felt decidedly different<\/i> from the Young Wizards<\/i> books. The fact that they basically roast all the saurians alive was shocking to me, though understandable. What else could they have done to survive? Still, I am really interested to see what other devices or themes that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll use because she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not writing in a young adult space. I notice there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s far more talk about sex, too, which also wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t absent at all in Young Wizards<\/i>! Just something I picked up on, though, and felt it worth noting.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/5nhE4bRC5Rw<\/p>\n

Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n

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