HEY SIS (I need a Laura icon)littledarkvoiceNovember 21 2011, 00:07:11 UTC
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I find it interesting that the adults aren't labeled as "their father, their mother etc," but just as father, mother etc." Places the POV pretty strictly with the children.
I find that interesting as well. I also like that we sometimes subtly slide in between the children's viewpoints--that there's similarities between them, so you can see that they're related and how much time they spend together, but differences as well.
The yacht is going to be a plot point and that's pretty fabulous.
I take a yacht... AND I SAIL IT!!!
Jane is very smart to fear the sea. Crazy shit lives down there.
Jane vs. Cthulu?
And I go back and forth between side-eyeing Simon and finding his asshole traits realistic for a kid, so yeah, same reaction as you.
Great-Uncle Merry seems like the mentor character that just looooves to withhold important information until the last second.
sdlahasjlhHASlah I HAVE COMPLICATED FEELINGS ABOUT MERRIMAN and like, cannot tell you all the details until we read more of the books because spoilers, but. One of the interesting things is that there is Great-Uncle Merry With the Drew Children, and then in the later books there will be Merriman With Will Stanton. They are the same character but with two distinctly different sides.
I'll warn you now, Merriman will do some serious info withholding in this book, but that's partially due to the fact that Cooper wrote book this way before the others and hadn't decided she was writing full-blown fantasy yet. So part of the reason he won't go all ~EXPOSITION TIME~ on the Drew kids is that the worldbuilding just isn't there yet. There's still some issues, but yeah, I... sdkdajaljsda holding self back from saying anything more.
Tell me to stop if I'm telling you too much! I worry that I'm doing that!
I find it interesting that the adults aren't labeled as "their father, their mother etc," but just as father, mother etc." Places the POV pretty strictly with the children.
I find that interesting as well. I also like that we sometimes subtly slide in between the children's viewpoints--that there's similarities between them, so you can see that they're related and how much time they spend together, but differences as well.
The yacht is going to be a plot point and that's pretty fabulous.
I take a yacht... AND I SAIL IT!!!
Jane is very smart to fear the sea. Crazy shit lives down there.
Jane vs. Cthulu?
And I go back and forth between side-eyeing Simon and finding his asshole traits realistic for a kid, so yeah, same reaction as you.
Great-Uncle Merry seems like the mentor character that just looooves to withhold important information until the last second.
sdlahasjlhHASlah I HAVE COMPLICATED FEELINGS ABOUT MERRIMAN and like, cannot tell you all the details until we read more of the books because spoilers, but. One of the interesting things is that there is Great-Uncle Merry With the Drew Children, and then in the later books there will be Merriman With Will Stanton. They are the same character but with two distinctly different sides.
I'll warn you now, Merriman will do some serious info withholding in this book, but that's partially due to the fact that Cooper wrote book this way before the others and hadn't decided she was writing full-blown fantasy yet. So part of the reason he won't go all ~EXPOSITION TIME~ on the Drew kids is that the worldbuilding just isn't there yet. There's still some issues, but yeah, I... sdkdajaljsda holding self back from saying anything more.
Tell me to stop if I'm telling you too much! I worry that I'm doing that!
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