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chapman 's review for:
The Language of Power
by Rosemary Kirstein
This will certainly be percolating through my brain in however long the wait is for the next book. Like before, however many questions are answered lead to more questions by the end of the book. Like before, details and encounters in past books come into play, making the world feel real and complicated and genuine.
For the first time, Slado, the mysterious, shadowy figure behind so much of the previous books, is brought more into focus, as Rowan and Bell focus on piercing together what they can about him. Uncovering his past footsteps.
Sometimes small almost throwaway seeming comments seem significant, especially to the larger puzzle of the origins of people existing on this world, which I think is more a reader pondering and not something Rowan is aware of at all. The ability for Kirstein to have these two connected but separate mysteries, that are different for Rowan and the reader while intimately intertwined.
The questions now seem to be: Kieran, the most senior Wizard in his day, saw something in the stars that profoundly affected him, to cause an overnight change in his view of life. At some point during Slado's apprenticeship Kieran showed him what he had discovered and it caused Slado to choose to kill Kieran and destroy the Guidestar that saw it, so make sure no one else could find or see it again and lead to him actively beginning to kill the human populations.
It was also something so important that Kieran wanted to share it with the Steerswomen so everyone would have the knowledge.
The images are in Rowan hands but like us, we lack the right context to understand the answer that seems to be in her hands. Now the house in Donner is destroyed, the only two places that can provide answers is Farside, which seems to be on the other side of the planet and where it is that Slado is now operating from.
It's as satisfying a place to pause as is possible for now, not exactly hanging on a cliffhanger, so the wait begins.
I'm sure that the more I think about it and later reread it, the more details, hints and clues will be waiting to be discovered. This series is superb world building, character and study of human beings. Even with the wait for whenever the next book comes, what's been created so far is well worth investing the time to enjoy.
Sometimes small almost throwaway seeming comments seem significant, especially to the larger puzzle of the origins of people existing on this world, which I think is more a reader pondering and not something Rowan is aware of at all. The ability for Kirstein to have these two connected but separate mysteries, that are different for Rowan and the reader while intimately intertwined.
The questions now seem to be: Kieran, the most senior Wizard in his day, saw something in the stars that profoundly affected him, to cause an overnight change in his view of life. At some point during Slado's apprenticeship Kieran showed him what he had discovered and it caused Slado to choose to kill Kieran and destroy the Guidestar that saw it, so make sure no one else could find or see it again and lead to him actively beginning to kill the human populations.
It was also something so important that Kieran wanted to share it with the Steerswomen so everyone would have the knowledge.
The images are in Rowan hands but like us, we lack the right context to understand the answer that seems to be in her hands. Now the house in Donner is destroyed, the only two places that can provide answers is Farside, which seems to be on the other side of the planet and where it is that Slado is now operating from.
It's as satisfying a place to pause as is possible for now, not exactly hanging on a cliffhanger, so the wait begins.
I'm sure that the more I think about it and later reread it, the more details, hints and clues will be waiting to be discovered. This series is superb world building, character and study of human beings. Even with the wait for whenever the next book comes, what's been created so far is well worth investing the time to enjoy.