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kate_nepveuPicking up conversation with sovay from here so I don't have to ROT13 things, also in case someone else can help me figure out my weird brain.
SPOILERS for Wein's The Winter Prince; series spoilers in comments.
My memory of The Winter Prince is that it spent the whole book making me care about the relationship between the Mordred-equivalent and his legitimate brother, and then still killed the brother (possibly not in a way that made Mordred-equivalent culpable?), and I was REALLY MAD about it and promptly resolved not to read any of the sequels.
After the Readercon Dunnett panel, I was talking with![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
ladysciencenerd about Wein and mentioned that I held a major grudge against The Winter Prince because the whole book was spent making me care about the characters' relationship and then it went and did the thing anyway—referring to the above, though not saying it because spoilers. ladysciencenerd then made absolutely amazing faces—repeatedly opening and closing her mouth, vertically-raised index finger moving out and back from her face—before visibly making up her mind and saying that it got fixed in the next book. And I was very dubious that "not actually dead!" was a good idea, but didn't ask for details because, again, spoilers in a public hallway.
And thensovay asked me about it, and I figured I should double-check my memory, and . . . no, they both live, and Mordred-equivalent pledges his loyalty to his brother. And now I have no idea whatsoever how I did that. I mean, I only reread the last chapter, because busy, but it doesn't look like something I could find ambiguous? I did read it in paper, and now I have the ebook, but I don't see any suggestion anywhere that it was revised.
So: was I reading something else and misremembering it for the Wein series? Did I just massively fail to understand it? Have I fallen into The Berenstein Bears universe?
I am baffled.
Oh, and I am trying to update the booklog: here's a pretty short entry about this year's Tiptree winner.
Edit: solved in comments!
sovay from here so I don't have to ROT13 things, also in case someone else can help me figure out my weird brain.SPOILERS for Wein's The Winter Prince; series spoilers in comments.
My memory of The Winter Prince is that it spent the whole book making me care about the relationship between the Mordred-equivalent and his legitimate brother, and then still killed the brother (possibly not in a way that made Mordred-equivalent culpable?), and I was REALLY MAD about it and promptly resolved not to read any of the sequels.
After the Readercon Dunnett panel, I was talking with
And then
sovay asked me about it, and I figured I should double-check my memory, and . . . no, they both live, and Mordred-equivalent pledges his loyalty to his brother. And now I have no idea whatsoever how I did that. I mean, I only reread the last chapter, because busy, but it doesn't look like something I could find ambiguous? I did read it in paper, and now I have the ebook, but I don't see any suggestion anywhere that it was revised.So: was I reading something else and misremembering it for the Wein series? Did I just massively fail to understand it? Have I fallen into The Berenstein Bears universe?
I am baffled.
Oh, and I am trying to update the booklog: here's a pretty short entry about this year's Tiptree winner.
Edit: solved in comments!
