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March 4 2015, 21:13:17 UTC 2 years ago
I'll get my tears straight out of the way, because I /did/ cry. My roommate walked by while I was crying, big quivering lip and tear filled eyes and walked away, chanting "No," at me, as if she could guess why. I knew it had to happen eventually, but oh, my heart broke. D:
Now-- on the the fabulous and the utterly terrifying. /Horse/ werewolves. Sheep werewolves. I admit, I laughed a little at the sheep, but you managed to make that terrifying. I liked Shelby's family-- they were hilarious and I love the shoutout to Pokemon and Doctor Who. *grins* The yowie just basically made my /day/, with how blunt he was.
Good to know that funnelweb spiders are a worse evil than bunyips and drop bears; it gives me a whole new level of 'lol, nope' and an urge to stay far away from Australia, but your description of the more mundane aspects of the area made me a little more open to the idea of visiting. :) I can see how the cryptids would like it.
I like how the Thirty Six society isn't like the Prices in the way that they are "let's help, but shoot if necessary" with the local cryptid population. They're... odd and insular in a way and very much how I can see an island community of monster... conservationists acting.
(I can't wait for the rest of the family to meet Shelby by the way!)
Again, the mice-- this isn't the heartbreaking bit, but the "I love that there is a Ritual for Boo Boos" sort of hilarity, and then that ever so useful skill that they not only remember words, but smells and everything else. I think the Aeselin mice could do a whole lot more than the family thinks they can do.
All in all, it was in parts terrifying and amazing and hilarious, the deadpan humor interspersed with "oh, hell, this isn't going to end well" and "yeah, that wasn't nice at all."
Thank you, Seanan! I loved this and I am already eagerly awaiting the next book a year from now. *laughs*
March 6 2015, 05:40:16 UTC 2 years ago
The mice can READ. The mice read. Which makes TOTAL SENSE, of course, but I hadn't thought of it (and had apparently missed the import of that line) the first time I'd read Half-Off Ragnarok.