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queensthiefIn The Thief, when Gen ends up in Attolia's prison and conversing with the queen, he says that he thinks she's a fiend from the underworld, etc.
That seems to contradict what is really the case, that he loves her. So we're left thinking, after reading QoA, either that he didn't yet love her (even though he says he has since he saw her dancing alone in the garden, which was before The Thief) or that MWT changed her mind between Thief and QoA.
I got to the end of the book and re-read the part where he says Eddis told him to write it down. I had completely forgotten that was the case. So what we have is pretty much a description of Gen concealing things and lying to the Magus et al., as filtered through a book that Gen is writing that he knows Eddis at least and probably others will read. So even though in most books one could assume that by the end the author is telling the truth and Revealing All - knowing Gen, and in these circumstances, I doubt it. He's just peeled back one more layer for Eddis' benefit, but there are all kinds of them still firmly concealed.
By the way, something that gave me a chill - when Gen is talking to the Magus right after he wakes up in Eddis, and is asking what's going on, and the Magus isn't telling him, Gen says, "Tell me, or I'll get up and strangle you with one hand." Shudder. Shades of the scene in KoA that happens because he *can't* strangle someone with one hand.
That seems to contradict what is really the case, that he loves her. So we're left thinking, after reading QoA, either that he didn't yet love her (even though he says he has since he saw her dancing alone in the garden, which was before The Thief) or that MWT changed her mind between Thief and QoA.
I got to the end of the book and re-read the part where he says Eddis told him to write it down. I had completely forgotten that was the case. So what we have is pretty much a description of Gen concealing things and lying to the Magus et al., as filtered through a book that Gen is writing that he knows Eddis at least and probably others will read. So even though in most books one could assume that by the end the author is telling the truth and Revealing All - knowing Gen, and in these circumstances, I doubt it. He's just peeled back one more layer for Eddis' benefit, but there are all kinds of them still firmly concealed.
By the way, something that gave me a chill - when Gen is talking to the Magus right after he wakes up in Eddis, and is asking what's going on, and the Magus isn't telling him, Gen says, "Tell me, or I'll get up and strangle you with one hand." Shudder. Shades of the scene in KoA that happens because he *can't* strangle someone with one hand.
