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I meant to mention Queen of Babble in my last post. I didn't like it at all. :( Are Meg Cabot's other adult books so ... teenagery?
When I took the last couple of books back to the library I picked up Gilded Cage by Vic James - an alternate modern UK where there are lots of aristocrats with magic (Equals) and everybody else has none (Skilless), and at the end of the Civil War they all signed a treaty saying that every member of the Skilless, forever after, would become slaves for ten years of their lives, some working as house servants and most in brutal factories, all considered property. It's a decent premise, but I have kind of a hard time buying it - harder than buying the Games in THG - because it seems like it would fall apart in a generation or so. Loads of people would defer as long as possible and then commit suicide, or whole families would die together to prevent their children from becoming property, and I can't see how the Skilless could win (or draw in) a war against the Equals but not rebel successfully later, or at least successfully enough to make the whole thing not worthwhile. Even if it did work, there would be no middle class at all (which is what the main characters are), because everyone Skilless would be screwed, career-wise, by having to lose ten years somewhere in it. THAT SAID, I'm enjoying it when I don't think about all that, and I'm only a couple chapters in so maybe it'll be addressed.
I should be cutting out a dress (I washed and iron 15yds of cotton on Monday, burned my pinkie on the iron) but am I ever sleepy this evening. I did get to bed a bit late last night but it seems excessive.
I want to write a review of Heart of Haute for my blog, but am stymied by the need for good photos of myself in my two dresses. :/ I do have a tripod now, at least, but there's nowhere in my apartment to take pictures and I'm not posing for myself outside.
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When I took the last couple of books back to the library I picked up Gilded Cage by Vic James - an alternate modern UK where there are lots of aristocrats with magic (Equals) and everybody else has none (Skilless), and at the end of the Civil War they all signed a treaty saying that every member of the Skilless, forever after, would become slaves for ten years of their lives, some working as house servants and most in brutal factories, all considered property. It's a decent premise, but I have kind of a hard time buying it - harder than buying the Games in THG - because it seems like it would fall apart in a generation or so. Loads of people would defer as long as possible and then commit suicide, or whole families would die together to prevent their children from becoming property, and I can't see how the Skilless could win (or draw in) a war against the Equals but not rebel successfully later, or at least successfully enough to make the whole thing not worthwhile. Even if it did work, there would be no middle class at all (which is what the main characters are), because everyone Skilless would be screwed, career-wise, by having to lose ten years somewhere in it. THAT SAID, I'm enjoying it when I don't think about all that, and I'm only a couple chapters in so maybe it'll be addressed.
I should be cutting out a dress (I washed and iron 15yds of cotton on Monday, burned my pinkie on the iron) but am I ever sleepy this evening. I did get to bed a bit late last night but it seems excessive.
I want to write a review of Heart of Haute for my blog, but am stymied by the need for good photos of myself in my two dresses. :/ I do have a tripod now, at least, but there's nowhere in my apartment to take pictures and I'm not posing for myself outside.
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