If you aren't going to reread the whole series, you will not regret rereading this one.
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I've been listening through all of the audiobooks since December and just finished this one. I never managed to get through the whole series as a kid, so this one was a first for me and Wow.
Safe to say after this one that the safe episodic status quo has been completed shattered, I know the series does a good job with serializing most of its big elements to be regular parts of the series like the chee and the elemist and krayak etc, but this one definitely feels like the start of the end game
You nailed the analysis here. This is definitely where things get real and then keep getting crazier.
There are a few points where the storied naive adventure spirit tries to reestablish a foothold, but there is an irreversible, looming atmosphere of perilous, mournful tunnel-vision insanity from this point forth.
It's very impressive how faithful the authors were able to remain to their vision for the series and their empathy for child soldiers and war=bad.
I've been listening through all of the audiobooks since December and just finished this one. I never managed to get through the whole series as a kid, so this one was a first for me and Wow.
Safe to say after this one that the safe episodic status quo has been completed shattered, I know the series does a good job with serializing most of its big elements to be regular parts of the series like the chee and the elemist and krayak etc, but this one definitely feels like the start of the end game
You nailed the analysis here. This is definitely where things get real and then keep getting crazier.
There are a few points where the storied naive adventure spirit tries to reestablish a foothold, but there is an irreversible, looming atmosphere of perilous, mournful tunnel-vision insanity from this point forth.
It's very impressive how faithful the authors were able to remain to their vision for the series and their empathy for child soldiers and war=bad.
Yikes. strap in!