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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2017-06-04 04:03 pm

[ SECRET POST #3805 ]


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Re: Book club - discussion for Dragon Wizard!

(Anonymous) 2017-06-04 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I liked Elhared and Sebastian as villains. They are not the usual megalomaniac Dark Lords you get in fantasy. They might like to be, but really they are con artists. Petty, venial, not too bright, and just an example on the banality of evil. It is exactly the sort of low grade con you could imagine a couple of barroom grifters dreaming up in our own world if we had access to genuine magic in our lives. It makes a good change, while still showing the damage that low grade grifters can manage to do without being generic fantasy dark lords.

In many ways they are a there but for the grace of god goes Frank, his dark reflection that he could have been. Last book Frank faced the man he could have been if he'd been just slightly crueler and uncaring, this book we go down the road of what he could have been if he had not learned responsibility.
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Re: Book club - discussion for Dragon Wizard!

[personal profile] diet_poison 2017-06-04 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a really good point! They're not super-powerful or inherently evil, they're just assholes who gained too much power and made a really big fucking mess. Your description of them is spot on.