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The Book of Night with Moon
3/5. A book in her Wizards universe, except about magic cats instead of magic teenagers.
So I picked this up because I had toxically overdosed on rape and sexual assault, and I was like Diane Duane wrote a book about magic talking cats? Sold! This is that, and it even manages to not be entirely twee about it, believe it or not, which is a remarkable feat for a book arising out of that hayday of twee books about talking cats known as the 90's.* It does have a surprise death in it that really got me. Though as I said to my wife, "at least it was only one of the humans. It would have been way worse if it was the cat."
Anyway, is it just me, or does this book turn the religious iconography up to eleven? The lone power as a serpent twined around the tree at the root of the world and all that? That has always been lurking just around the corner of the wizards books, but this one – which is not about humans at all – makes it much more plain.
*Okay, favorite book about magic talking cats, go. My wife hesitantly submits Tailchaser Song with a lot of caveats. I remember being fond of those Andre Norton books way back in the day. I read them in Braille, so I must have been... in elementary school?
Content notes: One vivid description of animal harm.
3/5. A book in her Wizards universe, except about magic cats instead of magic teenagers.
So I picked this up because I had toxically overdosed on rape and sexual assault, and I was like Diane Duane wrote a book about magic talking cats? Sold! This is that, and it even manages to not be entirely twee about it, believe it or not, which is a remarkable feat for a book arising out of that hayday of twee books about talking cats known as the 90's.* It does have a surprise death in it that really got me. Though as I said to my wife, "at least it was only one of the humans. It would have been way worse if it was the cat."
Anyway, is it just me, or does this book turn the religious iconography up to eleven? The lone power as a serpent twined around the tree at the root of the world and all that? That has always been lurking just around the corner of the wizards books, but this one – which is not about humans at all – makes it much more plain.
*Okay, favorite book about magic talking cats, go. My wife hesitantly submits Tailchaser Song with a lot of caveats. I remember being fond of those Andre Norton books way back in the day. I read them in Braille, so I must have been... in elementary school?
Content notes: One vivid description of animal harm.