{"id":4670,"date":"2018-08-27T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2018-08-26T10:47:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T17:47:52","slug":"mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-10-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2018\/08\/mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-10-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads &#8216;The Book of Night With Moon&#8217;: Chapter 10, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first part of the tenth chapter of <i>The Book of Night With Moon<\/i>, why must you continue to hurt me in this way. 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 extensive talk of grief and death, intrusive thoughts<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Wow, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, this is SO REAL. Duane fills the pages of this first part of chapter ten with a pervasive cloud of grief, one that hangs over Rhiow and everything she does. And I use the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pervasive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d intentionally because of the way Duane crafts this chapter. She does not pull punches in terms of how dark grief can get, and as someone who regularly deals with intrusive thoughts ANYWAY, I appreciated that Duane put this stuff into Rhiow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s characterization. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the thing with grief: you never quite know how it is going to manifest, so I always appreciate when an author can write in a way I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite seen before.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, Rhiow feels defeated. Lost. Adrift. The pain of losing Sue is only worsened by the fact that she cannot wallow in her sadness; she has to go right back to work. For some people, that helps them cope; I remember only taking a few days off of work and then jumping straight back into it. The distraction was <i>necessary<\/i> for me.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But Rhiow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work is not a distraction. It is so deeply related to Sue\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death that it only makes the problem that much more horrible. As she puts it:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>This is not an accident<\/i>, she thought finally.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Impossible<\/i> for it to be a coincidence. The Lone Power knew all too well when a blow was about to be struck against It. This time, it had struck the first blow: a preemptive strike, meant to make Rhiow useless for what now had to be done.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which means she <i>knows<\/i> that this is supposed to hurt. So if she gives in, if she allows herself to wallow in grief, the Lone One wins. Her only real move is to continue to resist entropy and death. But how do you do that when death is so personal? So intimate? How do you fight against something that was designed to hurt you <i>specifically<\/i>? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agonizing to see this happen, to watch Rhiow cycle through various stages of grief. We definitely see shock, denial, anger, and bargaining just within the first few pages of chapter ten alone. And I get why this is on such an accelerated time frame, too. How can it <i>not<\/i> be when Rhiow has to head to the deepest part of the Downsides VERY, VERY SHORTLY?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also not lost on me that as Rhiow deals with feeling unraveled on an emotional level, wizardry as a whole appears to be unraveling, too. Again: there are no coincidences in this world. The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nature of wizardry\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 being changed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is part of whatever terrible endgame The Lone One has. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so much, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? REMEMBER THIS WAS A QUIET NOVEL ABOUT A KITTEN DISCOVERING THEIR POWERS just kidding it never was one. But once again, multiple threads come together and lend themselves to the utter nightmare that is the present time in this book. Wizardries are coming undone. Timeslides aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t taking. WHAT IF THE GRAND CENTRAL AND CENTRAL PARK TIMESLIDES COME APART, Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL. The sheer psychic energy of those will damage Manhattan <i>forever<\/i>, right? You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cover up that kind of trauma!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But there are still mysteries at hand. What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s with Arhu insisting that they tyrannosaurs seen in the book are all the <i>same<\/i> being? Not just that, but \u00e2\u20ac\u0153someone who doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mind getting killed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That would be the Lone One, right? The Lone One <i>loves<\/i> death and entropy, but I still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand what this is for. Why do it? Just to cause chaos? Because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s certainly happening in a number of ways, the least of which is Urruah and Arhu turning on one another briefly. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what the Lone One thrives off of: relationships falling apart. Betrayal. Distrust. And of course, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help that Arhu has visionary power that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to manifest to stop Sue\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death. Which isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t how it works, anyway, but the stress that these wizards are under has fostered doubt and cynicism in them. And Urruah is not one to bite their tongue, you know?<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing is a mess, and I still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coming. I have no reason to doubt Rhiow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s theory that the adult feline wizards are a means to an end of sorts, a way for Arhu to get through his Ordeal for\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 reasons? Like, how <i>extreme<\/i> of an Ordeal are we talking??? We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen some pretty fucked up Ordeals in <i>Young Wizards<\/i>, but this one might be so bad that Arhu needs <i>three<\/i> other wizards just to increase the odds that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll survive it??? HI WHO APPROVED THIS. Because no??? Please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t??? But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna happen because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how Duane works. She seeds things for a <i>reason<\/i>, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why I also suspect that the fragment of a spell left in Rhiow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brain is related to that spell we heard about earlier in the book. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re connected! They have to be! Well, they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t <i>have<\/i> to be, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m desperate, so DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T JUDGE ME. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re about to head into the Downsides <i>again<\/i>, and wizardry is unraveling everywhere, and this is an unending nightmare. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only gonna get worse, right?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/4og3ZdAUBsQ<\/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 first part of the tenth chapter of The Book of Night With Moon, why must you continue to hurt me in this way. Intrigued? 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