This was so so fantastic. It’s like the best children’s (young adult?) book I’ve read in ages, plus John/Rodney. And Teyla! Oh, lovely, amazing, singing, Teyla, with her red skein of yarn. (Which reminds me: the titles of the chapters were so perfect. So perfect!)
And Ronon, who could see into the future. It just fits so perfectly for him, and I don’t know if I can even say why. And oh, the evil of the chair, and the myth of mage magic, and how Rodney finally figures out how to defeat it, and how to accept Teyla’s help.
And John! John, who had wings, and had them torn off, and was changed into a monster as a gift! It’s so ridiculously and perfectly angsty. Oh, lovely lovely blue bug John. I so loved how he could talk to Rodney, even without words, and how important that was to him, and how they just clicked so naturally.
And oh Rodney, who has scars all over his arms from using his magic to help people, to heal and protect them. (And Elizabeth, who hides hers on her thighs, so she can be a queen.)
Oh man, and having Rodney accidentally turn Radek and Elizabeth into metal golems was BRILLIANT. I’d thought at first that Rodney had been replacing lost limbs with metal ones, but having be an inadvertent result of his use of the chair was so much better—more tragic and awful for him, better for the readers.
I’m not being very coherent, but basically: I loved everything. I’m going to keep this one close to the heart for a while.
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Date: 2009-12-16 10:46 pm (UTC)And Ronon, who could see into the future. It just fits so perfectly for him, and I don’t know if I can even say why. And oh, the evil of the chair, and the myth of mage magic, and how Rodney finally figures out how to defeat it, and how to accept Teyla’s help.
And John! John, who had wings, and had them torn off, and was changed into a monster as a gift! It’s so ridiculously and perfectly angsty. Oh, lovely lovely blue bug John. I so loved how he could talk to Rodney, even without words, and how important that was to him, and how they just clicked so naturally.
And oh Rodney, who has scars all over his arms from using his magic to help people, to heal and protect them. (And Elizabeth, who hides hers on her thighs, so she can be a queen.)
Oh man, and having Rodney accidentally turn Radek and Elizabeth into metal golems was BRILLIANT. I’d thought at first that Rodney had been replacing lost limbs with metal ones, but having be an inadvertent result of his use of the chair was so much better—more tragic and awful for him, better for the readers.
I’m not being very coherent, but basically: I loved everything. I’m going to keep this one close to the heart for a while.