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

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Re: Book club - discussion for Dragon Wizard!

[personal profile] diet_poison 2017-06-04 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I really like this comment and I agree on a lot of it.

I think Rabbit losing her tongue wasn't the only really dark thing that happened, especially if you read through the bits with them in the second book. All of them came from some awful shit - I know some dealt with rape, and at least one with starvation to the point of cannibalism. The books are mostly very light in tone but they didn't shy away from these subjects.

I was a little confused by Sir Forsythe's storyline and how or whether it was resolved, but I might not have been reading it well. I do think Lysea's "punishment" for him was remarkably cruel, which is ironic because she's supposed to be the ~goddess of love~, but I think the book was intentionally demonstrating that her title doesn't make her benevolent - she may not have been as evil as Natlac, but she was, at least, just as self-absorbed as the other gods.

No good comes of being the subject of the gods favours

I would argue that some good came out of Frank's interactions with Lothan, but at the same time some of that was just fixing shit caused by interactions with the other gods, so. (And he and Lucille could very easily have simply died because Lothan didn't bother to tell them about the nature of the body he gave them so I'm not about to call him benevolent, either - though he's certainly interesting.)

I'd like to read a spin off series, I think there is enough worldbuilding to justify it, but I hope that the author chooses to leave Frank and Lucille as -at most- background characters in it. They'd completed their own arcs, so I'd not really want to read more of them despite how much I loved those two.

Agreed 100%! I want to see more of the characters whose arcs weren't tied up at the end of the trilogy, and Frank and Lucille's story has been told. I'd read a book just about the Handmaidens tbh.

The elves having a different moral code was very interesting and doesn't necessarily make them dicks, though some of them definitely were. Timoras almost seemed to be a slave to their bizarre code. The relationship between him and Theora is quite interesting to me, too. I'd read something about them, or including them, as well.

Re: Book club - discussion for Dragon Wizard!

(Anonymous) 2017-06-04 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I just have a thing about tongues being cut out. My grandmother once told me that she knew a chap who came back home from a Japanese POW camp at the end of WW2 and the Japanese guards had cut out his tongue as a punishment. It kinda freaked me out. Then I read a travelogue book from the old days of the Raj and it mentioned offhand that people riding elephants were advised to keep their tongues behind their teeth in case the elephant moved suddenly and they bit their tongue off, and later that same week I saw a Doctor Who episode where the bad guy was just a poor soul who had been tortured into insanity and had his tongue cut out.

That was a lot of tongue loss in a single week for someone who was still in single figures, agewise. Its just made tongue loss and extra special horrible thing for me. Its thirty-odd years later from all that and I still sometimes have genuine and actual nightmares where I lose my tongue.
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Re: Book club - discussion for Dragon Wizard!

[personal profile] diet_poison 2017-06-05 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah it's definitely super squicky. I think I'd react similarly if I'd been exposed to it repeatedly as a kid too. :(