This world is called Co: pern: ica and if things aren’t perfect, they’re corrected and the person responsible is sent to the Deadlands. Nothing can go against the ‘Grand Design’. The only species are humans, fire birds and katts. It sounds a bit authoritarian and boring to live there. People imagineer, an ability that allows them to create things, including children. People can’t imagineer in the Deadlands.
*****SPOILERS*****
The Higher, the thing that rules the
world, sits atop the Librarium. We learn that imagineering drains auma which is
why it doesn’t work in the Deadlands.
There was only moment in this book
that I enjoyed. Mat tries to get with Rosa, saying they could have a house and
books. But Rosa responds, ‘But we couldn’t have David’. That’s simultaneously
so sweet but so sad.
There are a few writing problems.
In this book, we have ‘computer’ and
‘com: puter’. They aren’t referring to different objects so it’s just a lack of
consistency.
The author writes ‘minit’ not
‘minute’. I don’t know what possessed him to do that. Also he uses ‘fain’
instead of ‘Fain’ like he has been doing.
The paragraphs and chapters return to
a sensible size in this book. Mostly. The nearer to the end the author got, the
larger his paragraphs became.
Many moments made you pause for
thought. Not because they were deep and meaningful but because they shouldn’t
have made it to print.
The characters spend the book being in
awe of David’s capable Imagineering but it him creating a floating bubble that
amazed them the most. Considering the whole point of bubbles is them floating,
I don’t understand.
When David looks out the window he
sees his mother yet he only notices Penny when she opens the door. How does
that work then?
The author writes about Aunty Gwyneth
that ‘badness was engraved in her soul’. Come on! That’s so lazy.
As Gwyneth lies dying, she writes with
the dragon claw that she lives. But instead of living in Co: pern: ica, the
world she lives in, she appears on Earth. Why on Earth would that happen?
The Higher are humans that evolved
beyond the need for a physical body. They’re also described as a collective of
pure fain. So they’re humans that became fain, maybe? In previous books, fain
came to Earth at the dawn of humanity so we know that fain aren’t humans.
Unless they were once humans from a different world?
Honestly? This book bored me. I regret
reading it. The series wouldn’t lose anything if it was removed.
Yes, seeing a society with different
relationships with the fain was an interesting idea, especially when the series
started to include the entire universe. But for the characters to be parallels
to the characters in the rest of the series? That was far from interesting.
The end was great. Not because of a
good conclusion but because I didn’t have to read this book anymore.
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