Ahira's Hangar

I was so let-down by T-cubed that I swore I'd never read Bakker again. I really wish I didn't just read that review....

I have edited this post a lot as I have finished the book. I hope it still makes sense at this point in time!


So far I am enjoying TJE, though it is clear it is a set up book for the next two in the series. Since I am so tired from a medical condition right now, I will probably have to reread it soon to make sure I pick on stuff I know I am missing in whole or part once I do finish it (I am about halfway done right now). note: Actually, I have finished the book.

Bakker is an amazingly good writer. Near the beginning there is what seems to be a fairly ordinary scene of a little boy watching a beetle scuttling around in a temple. Little boys like to watch animals so the scene is well and good and realistic and even a bit mundane; but then he transforms the scene in a way that you suddenly realize that is no normal little boy (to say the least), and your entire understanding of this character hugely changes.

I have a lot to say about what is implied about Esmi as well, but I want to think about it a bit more. I might even have to go back and read her scenes in the first trilogy.

edited to add:

here are some of my thoughts on Esmi and TJE - major spoilers, so I am blacking them out:

Bumping this, and not looking at spoilers, as Av and I are reading The Darkness That Comes Before. Av is, obviously, reading this much faster than I-I'm 60 pages in and really getting off on this book, so far. Bakker comes up with some astounding passages an imagery...

Well, I've read the Prince of Nothing series before, but I'm not reading the above post, because it seems to be about The Judging Eye, which is the next series.

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That's fine. We can still talk about PoN here.

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At, about, pg. 170 in TDTCB Stage is getting set fast and furious--I really wonder about this Emperor dude...

Only got a few pages to go in TDtCB. Since I don't wanna spoil anything, I'll just say that my favourite character is a toss-up between Drusas and the Scylvendi, Cnaiür or whatever.

Some very poignant moments with Esmenet too though.

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I like Cnaiür already-and the eyeless guy, too weird...

Bout 150 pages into The Warrior Prophet.

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Just bought Warrior Prophet still only 400 pages into TDTCB, slow the hell down Av!!!!

Ah, sorry man, I just finished The Thousandfold Thought.

I won't spoil anything you want to talk about, so post away.

(Really need to find the next series now...)

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Only one book is out so far in the next trilogy.

So it's skipped ahead in time a bit?

As with the last time I read these, I still



Who the hell knows?

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