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Feb. 18th, 2013
Reviews Of Young Adult Novels, Mainly Those Prominently Featuring Vampires, And Containing At Least One Love Triangle
Summary: In Which A Vampire, Accompanied By Her Mutant Moirail And On The Run From A Sinister Confectionary Mogul, Blogs Unkind Things About YA Vampire Novels; The Author Of One Such Work Responds In A Hostile Fashion While Intoxicated; Structures, Conveyances, And Fragile Emotional Equilibria Are Thoroughly Wrecked; Works Of Popular Fiction Are Criticized In Ways Inadvertently Revealing Of The Critics’ Anxieties; And Pirates Present A Problem.
The fourth entry in Tess Theramin's Heart of Ten series opens with the revelation that the events of the third entry, New York Times-bestseller A Reminiscence of Dr. Raheli Doomlocke, were a dream. It is my hope that in reporting this I do not injure the sensibilities of those personally offended by "spoilers," but I think that it needs to be gotten out of the way. Someone dreamed that last book. That is a thing that happened. Or, didn't happen, I guess.
The central question which The Dream Quest of a Known Quantity would like to ask is whose dream it was, and why some of the events of its predecessor, but not all, appear to be having an emotional effect on some, but not all, of the protagonists. The question that it actually asks is, "Why did Tess Theramin think that this was a good idea?"
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Summary: In Which A Vampire, Accompanied By Her Mutant Moirail And On The Run From A Sinister Confectionary Mogul, Blogs Unkind Things About YA Vampire Novels; The Author Of One Such Work Responds In A Hostile Fashion While Intoxicated; Structures, Conveyances, And Fragile Emotional Equilibria Are Thoroughly Wrecked; Works Of Popular Fiction Are Criticized In Ways Inadvertently Revealing Of The Critics’ Anxieties; And Pirates Present A Problem.
The fourth entry in Tess Theramin's Heart of Ten series opens with the revelation that the events of the third entry, New York Times-bestseller A Reminiscence of Dr. Raheli Doomlocke, were a dream. It is my hope that in reporting this I do not injure the sensibilities of those personally offended by "spoilers," but I think that it needs to be gotten out of the way. Someone dreamed that last book. That is a thing that happened. Or, didn't happen, I guess.
The central question which The Dream Quest of a Known Quantity would like to ask is whose dream it was, and why some of the events of its predecessor, but not all, appear to be having an emotional effect on some, but not all, of the protagonists. The question that it actually asks is, "Why did Tess Theramin think that this was a good idea?"
(Click to read the rest of the review...)
