Just noticed on The Thief re-read...

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

I am finally embarking on a re-read of the series. I'm still only in The Thief, but I may have said "Ha!" out loud when I got to this quote from the magus:

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His voice dripped condescension. "Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Gen is a family name. The title of King's Thief is a hereditary one now in Eddis, and I think the current Thief is named Eugenides. Maybe you're related."

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She completely laid it out for us, and I'm pretty darn sure I didn't even notice on my first read-through. Also, Gen's reaction ("I could feel my face burning and knew that I was red right up to the hairline") is, we can now guess, not so much due to anger (although I'm sure it's partly that), but alarm at how close the magus is to the truth.

Anyway, it's proving fabulous to re-read. Such a treat to catch all the subtler, deeper meanings of remarks and details. Very, very clever.

Comments

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

I think I remember a throwaway line on, like, page 3, where the magus asks him his name and Gen narrates,"'Gen.' He didn't want to know the rest." Or something of the sort. It's amazing.

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

It really is amazing, the way every detail seems to have been accurately thought out from the very start. What a mind she has!