Minister Kroll being behind the cover up doesn't surprise me. It is beyond horrifying and unjustifiable that she resorts to torturing innocent people. The fact that she hides her son and refuses to turn him in to justice is incredibly disgusting. I feel very sorry for her, but in the end she is enabling him in his crimes.
If I do a rewrite of this novel, I'm going to give Kroll a little more space. She's kind of interesting in theory - a character who set out to avoid being the villain she was destined to be, but who turned out to be too inherently twisted to succeed.
Dara still has a lot of "anti" stuck to her "heroine." ;)
I thought long and hard about this scene, actually - whether having Dara take a life (even for a justifiable reason) would make it too dark. In the end, I felt that if Jalon's prophesies were averted at this point, it'd destroy all tension for the climax. So I tried to make it a plot point instead - if Dara is to succeed, she has to step away from this Darker and Edgier crap and manage to be more of a normal goodie-goodie Demesneverse hero. ;)
I don't think that Dara taking a life makes the tone too dark. I think, anyway. And you're right, it fits very well into what the ultimate arc of Dara's character is, and what the prophesy hinges on - whether she can recover from the anti and become a hero. And yeah, anything else *would* have destroyed the tension pretty completely. :)
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Minister Kroll being behind the cover up doesn't surprise me. It is beyond horrifying and unjustifiable that she resorts to torturing innocent people. The fact that she hides her son and refuses to turn him in to justice is incredibly disgusting. I feel very sorry for her, but in the end she is enabling him in his crimes.
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*shudder* I hope Jalon will be all right and I hope Dara isn't consumed by her hatred. :(
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I thought long and hard about this scene, actually - whether having Dara take a life (even for a justifiable reason) would make it too dark. In the end, I felt that if Jalon's prophesies were averted at this point, it'd destroy all tension for the climax. So I tried to make it a plot point instead - if Dara is to succeed, she has to step away from this Darker and Edgier crap and manage to be more of a normal goodie-goodie Demesneverse hero. ;)
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