{"id":620,"date":"2008-07-21T18:30:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T18:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=620"},"modified":"2024-01-30T20:25:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T01:25:36","slug":"08spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/07\/08spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker, Kage: (08) The Sons of Heaven<\/cite> (spoilers)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post contains BOOK-DESTROYING SPOILERS for The Sons of Heaven<\/cite><\/strong>. The non-spoiler post is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Chapter 7, of course, would be where Mendoza says “I can’t honestly say he raped me” and I mentally howled, “Oh, that’s okay, I’ll say it for you!”<\/p>\n

And then giving birth to and raising your two once—and future<\/em>—lovers . . . ! I just can’t even cope with that, I’m sorry, I really can’t.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but suddenly pregnancy is the key to keeping immortals from going bad? I mean, it’s framed as “parenting skills,” but through “kids of their own,” via pregnancy and childbirth—as though adopted kids aren’t, and don’t give the opportunity to develop parenting skills?<\/p>\n

Again, as an adopted kid and as someone 39 weeks pregnant, I spit on the whole idea of raising pregnancy to some mythic level of magical wonderfulness. I mean, seriously<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So, you know, what with wincing away from everything to do with Mendoza, Edward, Alec, and Nicholas, I really can’t form an opinion of their deus ex machina (or whatever the plural is, I never took Latin) ending. It’s nice that there was no war and no slaughter and that the deities are benevolent and hands-off, but . . . whatever.<\/p>\n

Of the side-stories, I liked Victor’s best, well, found it most fitting, anyway. I was glad that Lewis contributes to his own rescue, and gets rescued by a woman (even if she then gets arbitrarily paired off). I see no point whatsoever in Hearst’s late addition to the series. I found the brief appearance and disappearance of the Company AI to be . . . brief. Just to give Nicholas a chance to wrestle with something God-like? Again: whatever.<\/p>\n

Yeah, that’s all I got. Oh well: on to the new Temeraire book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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