{"id":4674,"date":"2018-08-31T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4674"},"modified":"2018-08-26T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T17:49:27","slug":"mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-10-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2018\/08\/mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-10-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads &#8216;The Book of Night With Moon&#8217;: Chapter 10, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the third part of the tenth chapter of <i>The Book of Night With Moon<\/i>, THIS IS NOT WHERE I THOUGHT THIS WAS GOING. 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>Seriously, THIS IS SO UNEXPECTED and I kind of love it?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first talk about\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 whatever the hell this is. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like Upside-Down Manhattan??? I enjoyed that Duane threw us into the weirdness of this without necessarily telling us what this all is. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <i>physically<\/i> described, but the mental image I got from it all is so hard to grasp that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dizzying in its effect. Duane is also tapping into a fantasy trope that I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen in a long time, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so goddamn refreshing here. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s this notion that the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153deeper\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one goes into something, the closer to evil that you are. Hell, caverns, the ocean\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyou get the idea. That is part of the reason this feels so unnerving and insidious, but I also can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ignore that Duane built us up for this. Through the stories of the Downside and through the journey we got earlier in the book, she told us repeatedly how fucked up this place was. How it was steeped in entropy. How the Wise Ones had fallen and how they had more or less been shoved off into this world, so far away from the sun and the air and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153our\u00e2\u20ac\u009d universe.<\/p>\n<p>Their intrusion into the main world was just the start, so I anticipated that once these feline wizards went even <i>deeper<\/i> than they had the last time, everything would be way, way worse. And it was! I was not wrong! I was just\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 not at all ready for the following things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Duane taking Rhiow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first trip to the top of the Empire State Building and using it to create a world of NOPE in the image of a skyscraper dug <i>out<\/i> of rock. Not made OF one. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 the more I think about it, the worse it gets. Why? Why did you do this to me?<\/li>\n<li>The time element. This was not done in the last month. This entire affair <i>had<\/i> to have been years, decades, and <i>centuries<\/i> in the making. How??? How did no one notice this???<\/li>\n<li>The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153skyscrapers turned inside out\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that look like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hives of wild bees.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hey, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do that, please make it stop.<\/li>\n<li>SAURIAN RUSH HOUR. WHAT THE FUCK. NO.<\/li>\n<li>The reddish light at the bottom of the pit that Rhiow recognizes as Death. That is some GRIM shit.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>THE ETCHINGS AND CARVINGS! And the fact that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very clear how the Lone One\u00e2\u20ac\u201dstill assuming that is who the rogue wizard is\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfeels about the saurians is EATING ME UP. All of those creatures are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153used as a pedestal or footstool, crushed or otherwise thoroughly dominated.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d What kind of fascist nightmare <i>is<\/i> this???<\/li>\n<li>The map is useless. The one thing that could at least guide them truly is USELESS because of this weird construction project rendering it 100% inaccurate.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, I need to yell about Ith. A saurian attack was not shocking. That I <i>definitely<\/i> figured would happen. It was only a matter of time, right? They couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stay sidled forever, exhaustion was creeping in (especially in Rhiow), and once they did <i>any<\/i> serious wizardry, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be spotted. Urruah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lower\u00e2\u20ac\u009d neural inhibitor was a nice touch, and what I thought was going to happen was based on that. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be able to creep closer to their goal by using Urruah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s variant on the wizardry to avoid detection. Right? Makes sense!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But Arhu\u00e2\u20ac\u201deternally surprising Arhu\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<i>refuses to let Urruah kill the saurian who attacked them<\/i>. It is such a huge twist because it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even that long ago that Arhu was insistent that all these creatures deserved to die! Why the change of heart? Why show mercy on a saurian that was just about to murder Rhiow? And then THIS line makes even MORE confusing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Who is he?<\/i> she said to Arhu.<\/p>\n<p>He switched his tail. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <i>The father, he said. My son. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got to come along. Urruah, let him go\u00e2\u20ac\u201d!<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, this saurian is\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 someone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father? Okay, so, theory time: what if the rogue wizard is <i>another<\/i> saurian, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s son! That is\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 not the best theory? Okay, I tried, but the familial relation had to be important. But why would Arhu say <i>my<\/i> son? How does that make any sense?<\/p>\n<p>Wait, this part ruled, and I have to point it out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why did you attack us?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rhiow said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I smelled you,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d it said, and glared at her. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You should not be here.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, we are,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rhiow said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now, what will you do?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>SHE CONTINUES TO BE A BADASS IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY, I LOVE HER. Anyway, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s get back to Ith, who says <i>another<\/i> confusing clue: Why does Ith insist that Arhu is not \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the one who was foretold\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? So, a wizard was supposed to greet a saurian while on errantry? Yes? What prophecy is this all referring to, though? I am JUST AS CONFUSED AS SAASH IS.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rhiow looked closely at Arhu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s expression as he passed her. It was peculiar. There was scorn there, distaste, but also an intent look, an expression of near-relief, as if something that was supposed to happen was now happening. And almost some kind of longing\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve said this before, but: who the HELL is Arhu??? This is too much, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so lost, you are ALL evil for this.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/dGC0OeEO_IA<\/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 third part of the tenth chapter of The Book of Night With Moon, THIS IS NOT WHERE I THOUGHT THIS WAS GOING. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Feline Wizards.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[547,548],"tags":[513,549],"class_list":["post-4674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feline-wizards","category-the-book-of-night-with-moon","tag-diane-duane","tag-mark-reads-feline-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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