Listening to this series on audiobook is much easier than reading it. I own the books and tried getting into them a couple years ago and I couldn't but now I have been enjoying them. The books are much faster paced at this point. The first book drags a lot but the second half picked up and the second book picked up. It is a beautiful story about family and familial love. It is also a story about God (the Maker) and I think spiritual gifts (symbolism, so can't say for sure) and how we respond to the gifts God has given us. It is beautiful and such a lovely fantasy story.
....opened his eyes, and they were clear and blue.
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"Well," Oskar echoed, donning his spectacles with a flourish. "In the words of the great warrior, Triliban Plubius the Bruised, 'Whether crushed or sheltered by the Maker's hand, 'tis beneath it we go, from breath to death." - p144
"You should know that the darkness is seldom complete, and even when it is, the pinprick of light is not long in coming-and finer for the great shroud that surrounds it." p312