good morning, magpie
"we're all just hallucinations anyway" this bodes well for the fictive prospects....
good morning, magpie
the pacing is very strange to my current reader-brain. I'm used to stories where in the midst of the larger story, an episode conflict is introduced and then lingered on or disregarded for several chapters or even most of a single book. in good morning, magpie episodic conflicts are resolved shortly after they are introduced, such as the encounter with Adam and his followers, which lasts only a few pages.
this sounds like a criticism but it's not -- I ran out of characters
good morning, magpie
the quicker episodic pace works, not only because there's nothing wrong with that (I chose episodic for a reason) but because good morning, magpie is in a lot of ways closer to a fable than the kind of story that I'm used to. I feel like using animals as the cast to draw the mind to Aesop probably wasn't an accident.
I could just ask if the fable quality is intentional lol
good morning, magpie; godfeels
So with the post-Adam scene of the Darkness, I realize that it does somewhat resemble Epigone. Not in a way that necessarily makes me think they're the same THING; in fact i think they probably actively aren't, as the story seems to be about "sometimes awful, AWFUL things happen for no reason, no earns this even if they're irredeemable, because some things are ARBITRARY" and Epigone very fundamentally Desires things.
good morning, magpie; godfeels
The tendrils of the darkness stabbing forward and corrupting people resembles a combination of the Halo vision of the horrible all consuming cult crossed with Roserot -- though it also very much reminds me of the Hunger, from TAZ
Which is 100% not me saying "oh derivative" just for the record; with Epigone it's me identifying themes in Sarah's work, and with TAZ it's me saying "man tendrils of corrupting darkness are fuckin scary"
good morning, magpie
Genuinely a huge fan of the kinda, interlude about Adam's backstory. From a narrative standpoint I'm a huge fan. It's a good story also but damn if it didn't break my heart. Jenna, but especially the Bears. Poor lil Rowan. I have a huge weakness for like..... children being tormented for no reason :(
good morning, magpie
"life is too short to be anything other than exactly what you are" Sarah may have some major themes