{"id":459,"date":"2006-10-26T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=459"},"modified":"2024-03-24T11:19:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T15:19:24","slug":"wrede_tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/10\/wrede_tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrede, Patricia C., and Caroline Stevermer: (02) The Grand Tour<\/cite> (re-read)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I re-read Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer’s The Grand Tour<\/cite><\/strong> because the third book, The Mislaid Magician<\/cite>, is out but I didn’t have enough functioning brain cells to read anything new and didn’t remember anything that happened in this book.<\/p>\n

My initial reaction<\/a> was that the plot wasn’t very surprising; now I just think there wasn’t that much<\/em> of it. Since we’re getting one set of events told two different ways instead of two sets separated in place, as in the first book, this makes sense, but I still regret it. Also, Cecilia gets kind of short shrift, since she’s only writing a narrative for evidentiary purposes while Kate is keeping a diary: we get to know a lot less about her.<\/p>\n

Finally, I have a shameful confession to make: I am incapable of remembering which name goes with which major male character. In the first book, I didn’t have to remember: one was with Kate, one was with Cecy, and the two didn’t appear together. But now they’re all traveling together, and every time they show up I have to stop and remember which of them is married to Kate or to Cecy. “James” and “Thomas” don’t look alike as words, so I really don’t understand what my problem is.<\/p>\n

Still a fun book, but I admit I have somewhat high hopes of the third, which is apparently a return to a letter format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I re-read Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer’s The Grand Tour because the third book, The Mislaid Magician, is out but I didn’t have enough functioning brain cells to read anything new and didn’t remember anything that happened in this book. My initial reaction was that the plot wasn’t very surprising; now I just think … <\/p>\n

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