{"id":4678,"date":"2018-09-04T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4678"},"modified":"2018-09-02T08:31:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T15:31:10","slug":"mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2018\/09\/mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads &#8216;The Book of Night With Moon&#8217;: Chapter 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the eleventh chapter of <i>The Book of Night With Moon<\/i>, the felines\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 captor sheds more light on the nightmare that they are currently descending into. 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>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M STILL CONFUSED AND EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE <i>WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING!!!!<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is not a place where we are allowed to go,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ith said, and gave Urruah a look that to Rhiow seemed slightly peculiar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Look, this is a repetitive motif throughout this descent, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s freaking me. Ith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s behavior constantly hints at the truth, but I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 figure out what that truth <i>was<\/i>. Like, Ith straight up says they were told to go up higher, so does that mean the wizard responsible for all this <i>knew<\/i> the wizards would come? If so, why does Ith not try to attack them? Why does Ith <i>warn Arhu <\/i>when other saurians are going to attack? What horrible role is Ith supposed to play in all of this? What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on with this?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She was noticing that there was always a pause between a question to Ith and its answer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See, I had a different theory than Rhiow. What if it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a problem with Ith comprehending what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re saying <i>or<\/i> an attempt to craft the best message to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tell them as little as possible\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? What if <i>something else is talking to Ith<\/i>? And Ith is pausing to listen to what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re supposed to say? Okay, there is literally no textual evidence of this, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where my brain went, and I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help that. Still, I suspect Rhiow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second theory is correct. Ith has to be careful to obscure their true purpose, right? On top of that, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lots of talk of renegade wizards. (Again.) That seemed important enough that I figured a renegade was at the heart of this, but I did not put that together with <i>another<\/i> detail brought up earlier.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>More on that in a second, though, because there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the River of Fire to contend with. BECAUSE IF IT IS NOT ONE THING, IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ANOTHER. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s such a fascinating means by which Duane interrogates the notion of mortality and knowledge in adult wizards, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an additional reason why this works as an adult novel so well. For her entire existence as a wizard, Rhiow has understood the River of Fire in a specific sense, and then, in the Downside, she has to cope with the fact that this thing she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s known her whole life being <i>wrong<\/i>, or at least her perception of it. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard enough having to accept new information growing up, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve found that this is even more difficult to deal with as I get older, both on a personal level and with people in my life. In Rhiow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s case, mortality is creeper ever closer to her. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dealt with it personally\u00e2\u20ac\u201dgiving up part of her nine lives in order to fight this whole problem\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand in an external sense, when she lost Sue. Now, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s facing the River, and&#8230; well, is this <i>it<\/i> for her? Is this her final life? Is this her final stand against entropy? She can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know for sure, but so much of what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening around her suggests that this <i>is<\/i> the end for her.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And she continues on. She doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give up. She doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t turn back.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s get back to Ith. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, this saurian sheds a <i>lot<\/i> of light on the ongoing nightmare being assembled in the Downside, and one of the most disturbing details? The fact that the Great One has organized an entire system in which to build up warriors by feeding them on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the sacrificed.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d There are saurians literally bred just to be food for others. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re also <i>tested<\/i> by living in colder temperatures, despite being so close to the River, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all to produce the best army (of sorts) for the day when the Promised One leads them all to the surface to take back <i>all<\/i> the worlds. SERIOUSLY. ALL OF THEM. OH, AND THIS, TOO:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153By the gates,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Saash said softly. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Using them not only for transit, but to change the nature of the species itself. Genetic manipulation&#8230; wizardry changes to the body and the spirit. Permanent shapechange.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is all just so&#8230; so horrible? And also horribly impressive in a weird way? In that sense that this is all so detailed, clearly planned for <i>ages<\/i>, and makes me feel awful because&#8230; well, how the hell are they supposed to dismantle all of this in just a fraction of the time it took to put it all together? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like the feline wizards have a whole lot of time at hand, you know?<\/p>\n<p>Which makes me wonder if there <i>is<\/i> a way they can use Ith against the Great One. In particular, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thinking of this moment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rhiow glanced at her with slight amusement, but then turned back to Ith and said something that had suddenly occurred to her. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you sound very happy about all this?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Look at Ith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reaction! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to regurgitate the propaganda\/brainwashing that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been fed and nothing more. Whenever these characters get anywhere close to getting Ith to be honest, Ith reverts back to their programming. But there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something there, right??? I feel like this, combined with the fact that Ith warned Arhu is a sign of&#8230; I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know! That perhaps Ith is confused? That they long for something else? That they aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t buying everything that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been sold to them??? Because who knows if Rhiow would have survived that attack with Ith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s warning. Actually&#8230; they probably would have. Lord, Rhiow letting out all her anger on that saurian was REALLY BRUTAL AND INTENSE, and I feel like they would have channeled that regardless. Anyway, Ith <i>does<\/i> have a use otherwise, but Arhu hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t figured it out yet. Of all the felines, he has the most information (since he said the Whisperer has been feeding him clues), but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not quite enough yet. Ith has been helping them descend, but is that the only role Ith is to play?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well, I think that big reveal at the end of the chapter is the thing to tie this all together. The being that told Ith to come upward, to meet the feline wizards, is&#8230; another wizard on Ordeal??? HOW THE FUCK IS THAT POSSIBLE? I mean, Duane hinted at this by saying that some wizards get a <i>second<\/i> Ordeal, that perhaps the adult wizards were all being sent on a second Ordeal in conjunction with Arhu, but what the hell is this??? So, <i>another<\/i> wizard offered Ith the Oath? Or knows the Oath and took it herself? Is this the rogue wizard? WHAT IS HAPPENING, Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL???<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/4JwkO3mkBsM<\/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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