Reading Entries

Oof the way Amy wants someone to know her and has fallen into the ideal of a man who can do this for her instead of a real person in her desperate attempt to be a little less lonely.

The Sight has some very beautiful language and, and times, messaging about love and hope and embracing life. Larka’s love for everything around her is deeply moving, especially as she struggles to hold onto it and hope in the face of the despair that always seems close to overwhelming her. But ultimately she always chooses to enjoy life in spite of it and in spite of the atmosphere of death that constantly hangs over her. However, all of the beautiful sentiments connected to the protagonist are just completely dropped when dealing with Morgra. Like not just the misogyny in the way her character is portrayed, but also in the failure to actually make a villain that believably opposes these beliefs in favor of power and individualism. Like he’s trying to make her to be this complex character born of revenge but she’s just like comically evil that any deeper meaning is just ironed out. Her abduction of Fell was really interesting, and David Clement-Davies should honestly have just run with this setup. Like instead of coming up with some bullshit “she can’t love because she’s barren,” actually sensitively portray an abuser who has stolen Larka’s brother from her and has so deeply warped him that he literally thinks he is evil incarnate. Like fully flesh this storyline out and have it tie in again with the themes of love by Fell breaking free of Morgra and finding healthy relationships with his lost family.

Tor and Sita’s story as an obvious retelling of Jesus and the framing of Larka’s death at the end of the book has me thinking again about how a lot of Catholicism frames Jesus’ crucifixion and therefore sacrifice itself. Like it’s always said “For God so loved the world, He sacrificed His only son.” And we have the standard how can God let bad things happen how can He let His son die, but there’s also this refocusing of who is actually committing the sacrifice. Like of course Catholicism revolves around Jesus’ life as sacrifice, but idk it was Jesus who suffered and that was his suffering alone. Not God’s.

What happens to Bran would be absolutely fucking wild from a human’s perspective. Like you are abducted by wolves after literally just being born and raised among them for like 5 years. At year 4, you are taken to a rebel wolf camp by the Good Wolf you have just met after they have all just finished being massacred by ghosts and other humans. The rebel wolf leader then abducts you from your current pack and takes you to an altar. There the Evil Wolf sacrifices another wolf and you are forced to watch the entire history of the earth and humankind in a vision. The Good Wolf dies fighting the Bad Wolf, and her brother reunites you with your human mother.