{"id":4665,"date":"2018-08-21T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2018-08-19T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T21:10:18","slug":"mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-9-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2018\/08\/mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-9-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads &#8216;The Book of Night With Moon&#8217;: Chapter 9, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the third part of the ninth chapter of <i>The Book of Night With Moon<\/i>, somehow, this slips into an even GREATER disaster. 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>Who the hell is Arhu??? Not only has the pacing of this novel picked up, but Arhu is growing as a wizard on a page-by-page basis. And it makes sense that this would happen now. What better way to discover what kind of wizard you are than by using your newfound wizardry in high-stress situations? Arhu isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t adapting spells for his own usage; he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s adapting <i>himself<\/i> to the situation, and this situation calls for both brute force and creativity. I can see how Arhu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s creativity is born of his newness, too. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not as restrained by rules as the others, so he just does what he sees as appropriate and effective, even if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chaotic or overkill or unnecessary. He explodes dinosaurs. He melts the metal wires and bolts in the skeleton of a stegosaurus to prevent it from coming to life and attacking others. He reads the minds of his fellow wizards and takes the ideas they have and turns them into an <i>action<\/i>. He is&#8230; impressive, to say the least!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But he also adds to the shocking nature of this chapter, which twists and turns around the bewildering intrusion of saurians into our universe. I had wondered during the last section how the wizards were going to deal with such an absurd bending of reality, but Rhiow explains it here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153&#8230;we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll patch this whole area over with a congruent piece of nonincidental time from an equivalent universe.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kind of amazing how much sense this makes??? Wizards would have access to all the parallel universes\/realms, so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s basically like a quick copy\/paste job, only with an alternate timeline where the saurians <i>didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/i> break through. It actually feels far less invasive than going into the minds of each of these people and just brute-force changing their experiences, you know? I also imagine this is easier if no humans died in the midst of it, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still not sure if that happened or not. What about the derailment? Did the saurians ever reach someone before the wizards could save them? I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T ACTUALLY KNOW.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Which is why this chapter is just chaos personified, and lord, I know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not done with it, BUT I LOVE IT SO MUCH. So many tiny threads or inconsequential details are proven to be VERY CONSEQUENTIAL INDEED. Which is Duane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s thing? I knew that and STILL, HERE I AM, NOT OKAY AT ALL. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the return of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sixth claw\u00e2\u20ac\u009d detail, which is <i>very<\/i> literal, given that the saurians all <i>somehow<\/i> have six claws. Not just six claws, but that extra appendage is&#8230; um:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It looked very much like a thumb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hi, who authorized this? I have a receipt, can I return this? WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS EVEN MEAN? Some weird evolutionary thing happening below? Duane gives us no real time to reflect before she throws us right into the next nightmare, which is the seemingly endless stream of saurians plunging through the gate that won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t close. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not an exaggeration, either, and Duane makes sure we know just how terrible this situation is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As fast as they came out, they died of the neural-inhibitor spell being so repeatedly used that the bodies lay heaped high before the gate, and the new saurians had to clamber over the bodies of their dead or push them aside to leap, screaming, at the wizards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good <i>gods<\/i>, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. So, this threat is real, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s overwhelming, and on top of it all, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a time constraint. Yeah, that whole patch from an alternate universe? It can only work if people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u009dmemory tracks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t engraved deeply from the experience. At which point, the patch is impossible because they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll always remember it. SO THAT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S SUPER FUN! Just like everything else in this chapter, we learn a new, horrible detail, and before we can process it, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re barreling on to the next.<\/p>\n<p>I felt <i>somewhat<\/i> prepared for what came next because I assumed that the wizards would succeed in pulling the portal locus from the gate. My guess was that they would succeed, but would be forced to deal with the ramifications of having all four gates in Grand Central inoperative for over a day. However, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s note that in the video, I <i>did<\/i> remark that it was a bit scary that Arhu was taking part in this because he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t all that experienced as a wizard. I also said that maybe someone <i>wanted<\/i> them to separate the locui and the gates! I did not put two-and-two together. Now, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not Arhu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fault that someone sabotaged the gate, and Duane makes that clear. None of them were prepared for what was going to happen next, and I am including myself in that because I DID NOT EVEN KNOW THIS WAS POSSIBLE UNTIL THIS CHAPTER. A gate can come separated from its loci and become a free-rolling portal to&#8230; well, wherever it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s linked? Because that is <i>exactly<\/i> what happens, and while it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good that the gate isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t more like a black hole, sucking matter into it, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know that this is any better. The gate <i>full of saurians on the other side<\/i> is now moving into the Sheep Meadow while A HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE are there to see the Three Tenors. So&#8230; look, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to laugh because I know this is horrifying? But there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something slightly amusing about the concept of a group of dinosaurs let loose on a Three Tenors concert in Central Park.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to say I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m ready for this, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m really not.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/KrOTiqJR0XU<\/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>! 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