I do give her credit for being for reals ashamed of this one, at least. Even leaving the ableism aside it's also just bad.

I don't remember it that well because I'd already been turned off at this point by Dilemma. The hoops that book jumped through to justify "curing cancer is bad" left a bad taste in my mouth, mostly just because they were a result of careless writing in Duane's universe's metaphysics. Death is bound into the universes, fine, but not necessarily tragedy and pain. And you have all these supremely powerful wizards, and so Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People? It must be because Reasons and Powers, baby. Greetings and Defiance, yay cancer? Something like that.

Maybe that's unfair, because I haven't read it since it came out. But at the time that's how it felt to me.