it is so hard to talk about books that do this to me. this world - these characters - it consumed me. It has been awhile since i have been immersed in a book. ness touches upon the problems of colonization and group mentality and dehumanization and helplessness and loyalty with a skill for storytelling and characterization, and always skirting that fine line between emotion and sentimentality. This was much richer and deeper and so very dark. I really thought it was going to be a low-impact tale of a boy's adventure's through a damaged land with some sort of eventual self-discovery and that it would have good action sequences and some obvious metaphors and blah-di-blah and people said it was sad, so i figured someone would die at some point. i don't even know where to start with this book. i myself had all three of the books in this trilogy just smooshed in the middle of piles of other books at my place, thinking, "i will read those when i get around to it." and you may be feeling the same way. there are a lot of books in the world, most of us are mortal, who has the time, etc. To the other 171 of you, i say - "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?" and you can see i am serious about this, because i have done math in order to convince you.**Īnd i know, i know. 199 of them have this book on their shelves.
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