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| Friday, June 14, 2013 12:16 PM |
| (Last updated on Friday, June 14, 2013 01:38 PM) | | Book Report - The Fire Chronicle (The Books of Beginning, #2) |
 by Fëanor |
I was surprised to start this book and find the kids back in the orphanage. I was always kind of confused and annoyed when Harry Potter returned to the awful Dursleys during the summers, too. As in those books, I suppose the idea here was that the old wizard thought they'd be safer there for some reason, although in this case Dr. Pym is deeply mistaken, and the kids have barely been reintroduced to us when they're attacked and split up yet again. Stephens seems to delight in pointing out to us how desperately the kids need each other and how much they don't want to be split apart, and then splitting them apart anyway. I don't think all three of them are together for more than a couple of pages in this entire book, and occasionally he even puts each on his/her own, and all of them in terrible peril. It's rough! But this book does get us much closer to understanding what the kids' destiny is and who the Dire Magnus is and where their parents are and what all this is about. It's a very exciting book and I read it in a rush, sometimes having to stop myself from skipping ahead to see what happened next. I liked in particular the scenes between Kate and Rafe, and the implications their relationship has for the future, and the scene between Michael and the ghostly messenger, and how that quote from King Killin becomes so important and shifts in meaning as the book goes on. Unfortunately I read The Fire Chronicle too quickly, as now I have to wait for the next book to be published. Ah, well. Gives me something to look forward to. |
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