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Games Wizards Play
by Diane Duane
Ah geez. This is a hard review to write. For starters, this took me over a month to read, which either means I wanted to read every.single.word a la The Blind Assassin or that I just couldn't sustain enough interest to read more than a few pages at a time. I've already returned it to the library once and was about to have to return it again, so I gritted my teeth and finished the last 100 pages or so.
Let me say that I just bought this series for some of my nieces and nephews, and I just reread the first few books and found that there were still parts in at least one of them (you all know which one) that made me cry, still, as a grown woman. I found A Wizard of Mars to be just as satisfying now as I did when I read it the first time as well. This...this felt kind of like fanfiction. I was fine with Kit and Nita deciding to date and am absolutely in favor of them taking it slow (they are so young, after all), but I was not ready to be treated to scenes where Kit ruminated over how Nita looked hot in whatever outfit and
Also, on inclusion. We won't even get into the problems with Penn.
I anticipated this book for years and was very excited when it came out and now...? I really don't know anymore. And that makes me sort of sad. End of an era, I suppose.
Let me say that I just bought this series for some of my nieces and nephews, and I just reread the first few books and found that there were still parts in at least one of them (you all know which one) that made me cry, still, as a grown woman. I found A Wizard of Mars to be just as satisfying now as I did when I read it the first time as well. This...this felt kind of like fanfiction. I was fine with Kit and Nita deciding to date and am absolutely in favor of them taking it slow (they are so young, after all), but I was not ready to be treated to scenes where Kit ruminated over how Nita looked hot in whatever outfit and
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Penn and Kit fighting over Nita was just awkward.Also, on inclusion.
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I am the absolute last person to say that something is "too PC"--give me all your inclusion and give it to me YESTERDAY--but as others have mentioned, Lissa and Matt's sexuality felt very inorganic in the way that they were shoehorned in. It seemed as if their whole purpose was to cause the main, heterosexual characters (as far as we know for now) to Learn Something, and that felt awkward.I anticipated this book for years and was very excited when it came out and now...? I really don't know anymore. And that makes me sort of sad. End of an era, I suppose.