Hail! Cheese and cake! (Whoops - wrong series. Still, cheese and cake sound good.)
Anyway, I'm oddly happiest about finally getting to see one of my wishes for the series happen - a glimpse into the other lands, and even hints at an origin story. If we never hear more about "the Heart of Faerie", I will buy a hat just so I can eat it. I'd also love to see an Atlas of the Faerie Lands, when all this is said and done (if they survive the final book).
The love declarations seemed a little romance novel-esque to me, but if that's the biggest quibble I can come up with, no worries. I'm definitely glad we finally get the two of them together.
I was kind of hoping that Riordan would be hit with the power-robbing salve, and then be stranded. That would have felt poetically right, even though the story developed better this way.
And, lastly from disjointed statement land (which I think is a knowe in the woods just north of UCSC), I *loved* Toby's not knowing that Cal has a folklore program.
Finally (ok, I lied about the lastly) - this was the first book without a teaser chapter. The business side of me wonders if that's because they finally trust people to pick up the next one without it, or if you didn't have one for them.
All that said, great job, great book. Congratulations!
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Date: 2012-09-06 01:36 am (UTC)Anyway, I'm oddly happiest about finally getting to see one of my wishes for the series happen - a glimpse into the other lands, and even hints at an origin story. If we never hear more about "the Heart of Faerie", I will buy a hat just so I can eat it. I'd also love to see an Atlas of the Faerie Lands, when all this is said and done (if they survive the final book).
The love declarations seemed a little romance novel-esque to me, but if that's the biggest quibble I can come up with, no worries. I'm definitely glad we finally get the two of them together.
I was kind of hoping that Riordan would be hit with the power-robbing salve, and then be stranded. That would have felt poetically right, even though the story developed better this way.
And, lastly from disjointed statement land (which I think is a knowe in the woods just north of UCSC), I *loved* Toby's not knowing that Cal has a folklore program.
Finally (ok, I lied about the lastly) - this was the first book without a teaser chapter. The business side of me wonders if that's because they finally trust people to pick up the next one without it, or if you didn't have one for them.
All that said, great job, great book. Congratulations!