Just finished Spinning Silver
May. 7th, 2019 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyI enjoyed it except for three things that keep bugging me. (As always, having a few details bug me is better than perfection.)
1. There is no way either of our happy endings is going to be so happy without a lot of therapy, which they won't have because this is medieval not-Russia (or maybe medieval not-Poland) (EDIT: It's medieval not-Lithuania! or maybe just regular Lithuania) and that hasn't been invented yet. One of the two husbands has spent his entire life carefully cultivating a profound lack of interest in anything, for his own safety, and I don't see him unlearning that any time soon. (Plus, he's no longer immune to the magic crown, is he? Yeah.) The other seriously needs to learn to talk to people, and the sooner, the better.
2. So many new POV characters. Just when you think you've got them all, there's a new one, and the transitions aren't always clearly marked.
3. POTATOES. Now, we don't have an exact date on this story, but I feel fairly confident that it predates Columbus discovering America, which means there should be no potatoes. And I can't even edit them to "turnips" as I usually do because our characters spend time cutting out and planting the eyes. And this universe is too obviously our universe but with magic, so we can't ignore it either!
But, you know, those things are small potatoes. (Which are all in Peru at this time in history, I'm just pointing out again.)
1. There is no way either of our happy endings is going to be so happy without a lot of therapy, which they won't have because this is medieval not-Russia (or maybe medieval not-Poland) (EDIT: It's medieval not-Lithuania! or maybe just regular Lithuania) and that hasn't been invented yet. One of the two husbands has spent his entire life carefully cultivating a profound lack of interest in anything, for his own safety, and I don't see him unlearning that any time soon. (Plus, he's no longer immune to the magic crown, is he? Yeah.) The other seriously needs to learn to talk to people, and the sooner, the better.
2. So many new POV characters. Just when you think you've got them all, there's a new one, and the transitions aren't always clearly marked.
3. POTATOES. Now, we don't have an exact date on this story, but I feel fairly confident that it predates Columbus discovering America, which means there should be no potatoes. And I can't even edit them to "turnips" as I usually do because our characters spend time cutting out and planting the eyes. And this universe is too obviously our universe but with magic, so we can't ignore it either!
But, you know, those things are small potatoes. (Which are all in Peru at this time in history, I'm just pointing out again.)
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Date: 2019-05-07 09:26 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-05-10 03:40 am (UTC)(...invasion of Europe by pixies riding stolen hummingbirds!)
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Date: 2019-05-10 04:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-11 04:32 am (UTC)...which now gets me thinking of pixies with barbed-wire bridles on their hummingbird mounts, yanking them into formation, like little flying evil stallions who hate each other desperately. Maybe stick blinkers on them so they can't see each other so well!
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Date: 2019-05-12 09:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-12 07:13 pm (UTC)They feast upon the blood of their enemies! They're vampire hummingbirds!
That's why the pixies go invading everywhere. Their blood-drinking hummingbirds take a lot of work.
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