Greetings

[jhawkgirl86.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. Gosh. Where has this series been all my life? I read a lot, I mean A LOT. How could I have missed this? I am completely obsessed. I read the first three books last weekend and then I had to just stop and let it all soak in. I am dying because I have no one to talk to about these amazing stories, these amazing characters. I know my daughter would love them too but she has two more weeks of an intensive six week college session (microbiology and precalc, good times) and can’t start reading them until she’s done.

Aargh! Y’all!! Do you know how spoiler-y these books are?? (Of course you do.) You literally cannot say ANYTHING! When I finished KoA (absolute favorite) I was about to burst. I said to my daughter, “Omigosh, this series! So good! I...I...I...it...it...it...oh, I can’t say anything about it without ruining it! There are these....characters....this...this...this...relationship! Omigosh, I’ve already said too much!” My daughter’s response: “Mother, you’ve said literally nothing!” Lol! 

Anyway, sorry for the crazytown rant, but I just wanted to say thank you for this group. I’ve been crawling around the bowels of the archives, vicariously enjoying all the discussions, but I wanted to come up for air long enough to say hi and thanks for existing. :)

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Late TaT Reread Entry - Revolting, I Know

[starmy63]

Ended up being MIA for part of the TaT reread, so I apologize for the late entry, but one more thing stuck out during this last reread that I hadn't noticed as specifically previously (sorry it if's been discussed before). I'll chalk this up as my (also late) prediction for future books entry.

p. 187 paragraph 3 reads: "There was little that frightened the citizens oft he empire like the possibility of a slave revolt." As I recall, there were several discussions or similar sentences multiple places in the book. I didn't note the page, but at one point Costis passes on what 'my king' says about the stability of the Medean empire, and that it's possible it could collapse completely under its' own weight. I don't necessarily see how, but I do wonder if this may either be at tactic employed by the Attolian empire in their war against the Medes, or even just a prediction on the part of someone who understands the principles of levers and frequently employs the principle himself (changing the mind of the man next to the man he wants to convince, etc.). I have to wonder if there might be a way Kamet's journey (as one of the most powerful slaves in the Medean hierarchy) in coming to trust an Attolian and to better understand freedom and individual will end up functioning in a similar way to shift the balance of power or change the minds of other slaves in Medea.