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bitchy_merlinOH HOLY FUCKING SHITBALLS.
YOU. GUYS. JUST.
I.
Well, I finished Kings of Clonmel last night, and HOLY ;ALSKDJF;ALSDHK;ASKLT;ASDJ;ALTJ;ASLDINA; I DON'T EVEN!!!!!
BEWARE: THE IMAGES ARE FUCKING HUGE BECAUSE I AM A N0OB AND HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO MAKE THEM SMALLER. JSYK.
Basically, I LOVED IT, OBVIOUSLY. (NB: I have no actual taste in books. Generally once I stan something, I stan it to the nth degree.) ♥ ♥ ♥
Action! Adventure! Cameo appearances by love interest(s)! EPIC PLOT TWISTS OF EPICNESS!* IT WAS EVERYTHING I COULD EVER WANT IN A 9-12 FANTASY NOVEL. :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
IN FACT, IT WAS SO AWESOME THAT I MADE NOTES ABOUT IT! (<---FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU SCHOOL, LOOK WHAT HAS BECOME OF ME) It took me like eighty bajillion extra hours to get through the thing because of the note-taking. BUT IT WAS WORTH IT. I LOVE THIS BOOK SO FUCKING MUCH. ♥
I MEAN, BASICALLY EVERY OTHER LINE IN THAT BOOK MADE ME WANT TO WRITE FIC ABOUT IT (which would be so much more impressive if a)it weren't a children's fantasy book and b)I could actually write, but w/e SO AMAZINGGGGG). HALT! CROWLEY! CROWLEY BICKERING ABOUT HALT! CROWLEY BICKERING WITH HALT!loitering within tent, hah :D WILL AND GILAN BEING AWESOME TOGETHER! WILL AND GILAN BEING AWESOME INDIVIDUALLY!
Then there was Horace! Who is BAMF! Like a BOSS! ON A HORSE! Fighting hulk-sized dudes with maces! And winning! (Ok, I know Flanagan would never actually kill Horace, but I just can't help worrying about him every time he goes off into a fight scene.) SUNRISE WARRIOR FTW! ♥
And Will (of course Will)! Being devious and cunning! How awesome! I love him! I love how he's changed from book one and grown into amini-Halt Ranger in his own right.
Have I mentioned how much I love the dialogue in this series? SO. DAMN. MUCH. BE SLEEK, HALT.
I laughed so hard at that part. :D
ONE THING I DID NOT LIKE AT ALL: UM, HELLO, ENDING. WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU? NOT LIKE I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO IT FOR, I DON'T KNOW, THE ENTIRE BOOK AND THEN... WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? There was, like, nothing there. It felt like a setup for the next novel, but AFAIK, this one is the last in the series (WHICH BREAKS. MY. HEART. YOU KNOW, NO BIGGIE). They didn't catch Tennyson. They didn't even meet up with Will, for fuck's sake! And I get that Will and Horace are grown and independent now, or whatever, but pleeeeeeeease, I was looking forward to a happy, fluffy, triumphant return to Araluen, not "ok, let's head out before it starts raining wtf". Gahh, that was not satisfying.
But. On the whole, I cannot fault him, because I simply love the universe Flanagan has given us in his books, and sometimes it's just really nice to read about heroes who don't die** and always win in the end, usually with the generous application of super-skilled arrow shots to various fleshy parts of the enemy. Dashing heroes! Epic adventures! Stealthy main characters and inordinate numbers of cloak references! Charming and hilarious dialogue! What's not to love? ♥ ♥ ♥
* Inasmuch as you get those in the 9-12 section.
** Thing number 74897465784939851 I LOVE about this series: NONE OF MY FAVOURITE CHARACTERS HAVE DIED! I LOVE IT! I LOVE HOW I CAN KEEP STANNING PEOPLE FROM ONE BOOK TO THE NEXT, BECAUSE, GUESS WHAT? THEY STILL EXIST! HOW NOVEL! :DDDDD
completely unrelated: I want the "France" part of this as my ringtone. HOW AWESOME WOULD THAT BE? Every time a call would come in: "SIDNEY CROSBY!! YYYYYEAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LES CANADIENS!!!!!! QUEL FILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (LOL if it went off in the middle of lecture. Oh, man. ;p)
EDIT: OK, I am the luckiest idiot EVER. Wikipedia tells me there are TWO MORE BOOKS scheduled for Flanagan's RA series. TEARS OF HAPPINESS RN.
YOU. GUYS. JUST.
I.
Well, I finished Kings of Clonmel last night, and HOLY ;ALSKDJF;ALSDHK;ASKLT;ASDJ;ALTJ;ASLDINA; I DON'T EVEN!!!!!
BEWARE: THE IMAGES ARE FUCKING HUGE BECAUSE I AM A N0OB AND HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO MAKE THEM SMALLER. JSYK.
Basically, I LOVED IT, OBVIOUSLY. (NB: I have no actual taste in books. Generally once I stan something, I stan it to the nth degree.) ♥ ♥ ♥
Action! Adventure! Cameo appearances by love interest(s)! EPIC PLOT TWISTS OF EPICNESS!* IT WAS EVERYTHING I COULD EVER WANT IN A 9-12 FANTASY NOVEL. :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
IN FACT, IT WAS SO AWESOME THAT I MADE NOTES ABOUT IT! (<---FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU SCHOOL, LOOK WHAT HAS BECOME OF ME) It took me like eighty bajillion extra hours to get through the thing because of the note-taking. BUT IT WAS WORTH IT. I LOVE THIS BOOK SO FUCKING MUCH. ♥
I MEAN, BASICALLY EVERY OTHER LINE IN THAT BOOK MADE ME WANT TO WRITE FIC ABOUT IT (which would be so much more impressive if a)it weren't a children's fantasy book and b)I could actually write, but w/e SO AMAZINGGGGG). HALT! CROWLEY! CROWLEY BICKERING ABOUT HALT! CROWLEY BICKERING WITH HALT!
Then there was Horace! Who is BAMF! Like a BOSS! ON A HORSE! Fighting hulk-sized dudes with maces! And winning! (Ok, I know Flanagan would never actually kill Horace, but I just can't help worrying about him every time he goes off into a fight scene.) SUNRISE WARRIOR FTW! ♥
And Will (of course Will)! Being devious and cunning! How awesome! I love him! I love how he's changed from book one and grown into a
Have I mentioned how much I love the dialogue in this series? SO. DAMN. MUCH. BE SLEEK, HALT.
I laughed so hard at that part. :D
ONE THING I DID NOT LIKE AT ALL: UM, HELLO, ENDING. WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU? NOT LIKE I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO IT FOR, I DON'T KNOW, THE ENTIRE BOOK AND THEN... WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? There was, like, nothing there. It felt like a setup for the next novel, but AFAIK, this one is the last in the series (WHICH BREAKS. MY. HEART. YOU KNOW, NO BIGGIE). They didn't catch Tennyson. They didn't even meet up with Will, for fuck's sake! And I get that Will and Horace are grown and independent now, or whatever, but pleeeeeeeease, I was looking forward to a happy, fluffy, triumphant return to Araluen, not "ok, let's head out before it starts raining wtf". Gahh, that was not satisfying.
But. On the whole, I cannot fault him, because I simply love the universe Flanagan has given us in his books, and sometimes it's just really nice to read about heroes who don't die** and always win in the end, usually with the generous application of super-skilled arrow shots to various fleshy parts of the enemy. Dashing heroes! Epic adventures! Stealthy main characters and inordinate numbers of cloak references! Charming and hilarious dialogue! What's not to love? ♥ ♥ ♥
* Inasmuch as you get those in the 9-12 section.
** Thing number 74897465784939851 I LOVE about this series: NONE OF MY FAVOURITE CHARACTERS HAVE DIED! I LOVE IT! I LOVE HOW I CAN KEEP STANNING PEOPLE FROM ONE BOOK TO THE NEXT, BECAUSE, GUESS WHAT? THEY STILL EXIST! HOW NOVEL! :DDDDD
completely unrelated: I want the "France" part of this as my ringtone. HOW AWESOME WOULD THAT BE? Every time a call would come in: "SIDNEY CROSBY!! YYYYYEAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LES CANADIENS!!!!!! QUEL FILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (LOL if it went off in the middle of lecture. Oh, man. ;p)
EDIT: OK, I am the luckiest idiot EVER. Wikipedia tells me there are TWO MORE BOOKS scheduled for Flanagan's RA series. TEARS OF HAPPINESS RN.
