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About those first 3 chapters (spoilers)
I speculate . . . I celebrate . . . I congratulate those with more willpower who haven’t read the sample chapters on Apple Books yet, but I really want to get my thoughts and feelings out, and no one else has started a thread, so let’s talk.
[Spoiler (click to open)]
According to google translate, the Greek word for pigeon is peristeri. Pheris. I was imagining a fairly normal kid and I couldn’t have guessed that he would be totally unique and probably my new favorite character! I’m a special education teacher, and when I see characters with disabilities in fiction I’m like, “Yesss!” and then when they’re treated cruelly I’m like, “Noooo!” But Megan has already told us that “history is written by the winners” so yay for Pheris. His Exortium at the beginning lets us know that he will still be going strong after the events, and that his raw intelligence will grow into scholarship. I love that he says he will “dispense with the language of scholarship” and then proceeds to write in a very thoughtful refined way, describing the movements of bees, etc.
My heart breaks for Pheris’ nurse. Honestly I felt more gutted by these chapters than by the beginning of QoA. I know, I know, character development usually requires the mother figure to get ditched in the beginning of the story but IT STINKS! And it’s the mother/nurse that I cry for more than the kid. I would rather lose my right hand than lose any one of my kids.
Pheris could be quite the spy for Gen, as his intelligence is underestimated and people don’t want to pay attention to him. I picture him sneaking under tables, listening to conversations and ganaching Gen’s enemies.
How do you think Sejanus would react to Pheris being the heir? I can imagine him being murderous, but I can also imagine him laughing and saying, “you go kid.” He’s kind of a two-faced fellow.
These chapters have been so focused on Pheris that we’ve barely glimpsed our other main characters and we have nothing yet on the Medes, the volcano, the gods, Dite or Sejanus, or any of the other issues and loose ends that Megan needs to resolve. Looks like it’s going to be a long, satisfying book crammed with action.
What were your thoughts?
[Spoiler (click to open)]
According to google translate, the Greek word for pigeon is peristeri. Pheris. I was imagining a fairly normal kid and I couldn’t have guessed that he would be totally unique and probably my new favorite character! I’m a special education teacher, and when I see characters with disabilities in fiction I’m like, “Yesss!” and then when they’re treated cruelly I’m like, “Noooo!” But Megan has already told us that “history is written by the winners” so yay for Pheris. His Exortium at the beginning lets us know that he will still be going strong after the events, and that his raw intelligence will grow into scholarship. I love that he says he will “dispense with the language of scholarship” and then proceeds to write in a very thoughtful refined way, describing the movements of bees, etc.
My heart breaks for Pheris’ nurse. Honestly I felt more gutted by these chapters than by the beginning of QoA. I know, I know, character development usually requires the mother figure to get ditched in the beginning of the story but IT STINKS! And it’s the mother/nurse that I cry for more than the kid. I would rather lose my right hand than lose any one of my kids.
Pheris could be quite the spy for Gen, as his intelligence is underestimated and people don’t want to pay attention to him. I picture him sneaking under tables, listening to conversations and ganaching Gen’s enemies.
How do you think Sejanus would react to Pheris being the heir? I can imagine him being murderous, but I can also imagine him laughing and saying, “you go kid.” He’s kind of a two-faced fellow.
These chapters have been so focused on Pheris that we’ve barely glimpsed our other main characters and we have nothing yet on the Medes, the volcano, the gods, Dite or Sejanus, or any of the other issues and loose ends that Megan needs to resolve. Looks like it’s going to be a long, satisfying book crammed with action.
What were your thoughts?