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	sticks 2008-03-12 12:14 am UTC (link)
	Book three is out? I don't remember anything about books one and two except that they involved someone's dead mom, India, a boarding school, absinthe, an alternate reality, and anagrams of "I AM LORD VOLDEMORT"-esque proportions, but I guess I know what I'll be reading over Easter break. (Reply to this)(Thread)

keri
2008-03-12 03:59 am UTC (link)

It's quite a capstone book, and I feel it make the whole trilogy. My feelings/memories were fairly similar to yours all this last year, and then I read the final book and it was very much "so this is why the other two books were so worth reading!" only not quite that, since I've always felt they were nice bubblegum books, better than most but not as dear to me as others.

At any rate, it's quite good.

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	eilisliana 2008-03-12 08:28 am UTC (link)
	I liked the first two but didn't really like the end of three. But I won't go all HOW COULD YOU?! on Libba Bray over it. Her books, her vision. shrugs (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	keri 2008-03-13 04:05 am UTC (link)
	Ha! Everyone I've talked to either says the same thing as you, or the same thing as me. How funny. Maybe I like it because it'd been at least a year between reading the second and third, or something. I didn't really like the second book as much as the first. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eilisliana 2008-03-13 04:10 am UTC (link)
	I actually don't remember the second much, I read the first twice and the second once so the second is rather vague. Maybe if I re-read the trilogy from start to finish I might feel differently. But I still wouldn't freak out at the author. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

keri
2008-03-13 04:15 am UTC (link)

Maybe if I re-read the trilogy from start to finish I might feel differently.

Maybe not - there are some huge leaps in plot from the first book to the third that I'm not sure the second one sufficiently sets up, like the whole Pippa/Fee thing. I'd thought I remembered something like that in the first book, but the closest thing at all is that Felicity knows about Sappho and it's like she's running after that gypsy boy and shoving Pippa away because she feels it isn't decent, or something. Also, the relationship between Fee and her dad seems incredibly different in the first book.

Hm. I seem to be convincing myself that maybe it isn't great as I'd been thinking. Damn those vestigial emotions from reading and their clouding over of actual plot and characterisation!

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	eilisliana 2008-03-13 04:34 am UTC (link)
	I'm pretty easy to please when reading but yeah sometimes the plotholes can be annoying. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kittikattie 2008-03-13 08:01 am UTC (link)
	I plan to buy it once it does like the last two and shows up at Half Price. Though I might check it out before hand. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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