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A review by kmh_1832
Changes: Volume Three of the Collegium Chronicles by Mercedes Lackey
3.0
Changes picks up the pace from the second book, thank goodness. The biggest disappointment for me - and maybe this is just me asking too much of YA - is that it flirts with some dark questions without really confronting them. Mags starts to consider how dark the life a spy might be - always snooping and snitching and not being yourself - then drops the question. He and feels bad about it for a day, but doesn't really give much thought to the fact that he's going to have to do a lot more relatively terrible things as a spy, if that's really what he's going to do with his life. But he just sort of accepts the future that Nikolas has picked out for him. Ok. Whatever, Mags. Fortunately he's actually a likable, clever character and never *quite* falls into flat-out CAPSLOCK HARRY mode.
I have to give Lackey a great big side-eye for her presentation of sex workers and people with disabilities. There's a minor character who is a prostitute, and it's implied that she became one because she was too lazy to be a maid. Um, what? And Amily. A great deal is made of the fact that she's a terrible burden on her father - not just that she feels that way, but that she is. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Obviously there is no reason to be patronizing to people with disabilities, but geez, do you have to hammer on the word "burden" so very much?
And again, too much kirball, not enough foreign spies.
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terrorizes some little kids (witnesses) and threatens to sell one of them to a pedophile (he wouldn't really),I have to give Lackey a great big side-eye for her presentation of sex workers and people with disabilities. There's a minor character who is a prostitute, and it's implied that she became one because she was too lazy to be a maid. Um, what? And Amily. A great deal is made of the fact that she's a terrible burden on her father - not just that she feels that way, but that she is. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Obviously there is no reason to be patronizing to people with disabilities, but geez, do you have to hammer on the word "burden" so very much?
And again, too much kirball, not enough foreign spies.