I'm breaking off at the end of Part One to say how much I'm enjoying this!! It's terrific fun! I'm loving how it plays around with the elements of The Last Battle, with the gathering hints of the plot to go disguised into Narnia, and shivering at Tirian's terrifying dream-visions of the end of Narnia. Jill is great, who'd have expected the Tale of Two Cities?... oh, and lovely to see Susan in the photo, being part of the Friends' jaunt to Brighton! There's so much to notice and enjoy in this story... but I must hurry breathlessly back for Part Two! :)
(And now having finished :) ) Oh, there was so much real fun in this! "worse than Shakespeare", Tirian trying to sound like himself! Loved it! And loved the plottiness, and the hundred incidental little gifts you threw in, like the glimpses of Calormen's western territories. And Emeth - I knew it was Emeth! And I liked very very much the politics, the importance of getting trade right, and the tart reminder that kings have more to do than enjoying rural retirement in hunting lodges, and the wonderful plunge into the Calormen river,and then rising through a pool in the Wood Between the Worlds - gorgeous! And of course the wonderful scraps of untold stories from Aslan's other worlds... oh,this was a wonderfully enjoyable, enticing, jam-packed-with-goodies contribution to NFE -- thank you!
(Editing to put in the word "have", left out in my excitement.)
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Date: 2013-09-05 01:38 am (UTC)(And now having finished :) ) Oh, there was so much real fun in this! "worse than Shakespeare", Tirian trying to sound like himself! Loved it! And loved the plottiness, and the hundred incidental little gifts you threw in, like the glimpses of Calormen's western territories. And Emeth - I knew it was Emeth! And I liked very very much the politics, the importance of getting trade right, and the tart reminder that kings have more to do than enjoying rural retirement in hunting lodges, and the wonderful plunge into the Calormen river,and then rising through a pool in the Wood Between the Worlds - gorgeous! And of course the wonderful scraps of untold stories from Aslan's other worlds... oh,this was a wonderfully enjoyable, enticing, jam-packed-with-goodies contribution to NFE -- thank you!
(Editing to put in the word "have", left out in my excitement.)