Status Updates From The Book of Atrix Wolfe

Patricia A. McKillip. i know your doing a whole 'the choppers did this and the peelers did that' thing for the kitchen scenes, but could you have not at least called him the 'deboner.' this book was published in 1995. "you little gamecocks" come On patricia.

the forgettable face no one thinks of her unless they need her bit was better energy than everyone gossiping about where she came from.

the "saro is a spell" bit is so good, i wish the whole book was just saro pov it would make how she is changing more impactful if we saw more of who she was Before.

oh she cant stop thinking about his face. great cool. at least unlike the thorn one he showed her a kind deed first to warrant this continued thought I Guess.

"you have the strangest face blah blah wait take this lily i want you to keep it blah blah: Patricia A. McKillip. if you make me read some instalove BULLSHIT i will Pitch A Bitch Fit the likes of which we as a society may NEVER recover from (one star gr review)

obv saro will end up bringing him his trays which is Fine I Guess but would be Better if we had got to spend more than a chapter and a half w her. also i swear talis has been So Ass w this book if it cuts to him having progressed a ton while pov was away from him it will be so annoying. you could So Easily do this book just from saro's pov!!!

"Saro, deep in her wash water, heard her name echo around the iron cauldron. It was one more kitchen noise; if he had called her name to fetch a dirty pot she might have put the name to his voice."

cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunt i find the saro that we see in the kitchen So Compelling and frankly would find her much more compelling w.o the knowledge she's the missing daughter.

*loud wrong horn* book used the g word

dog how small is this bore if it can be carried home hanging off the spear not at risk of breaking the spear lol

have so bravely not complained about it til this point but insisting on calling glasses "lenses" is pissing me off every time

sorry this breaking all the mirrors trying to put out a candle and getting subsequently reprimanded for it bit is exactly demonstrative of how fucking young and stupid he sounds lol. if that was a 14 year old after two (iic?) years of magic school it would be a bit dumb but understandable if written well. a TWENTY YEAR OLD MAN>?>????/ come off it bro

"...the misty green wood on the hill, the sky colored pearl around it."

oh my God do i hate shifting perspective books. the plot description says the mage is sent on a quest to find the now scullery made can we just get to it! i dont Care about talis and hardly care about the mage's modern pov. please i beg. its gonna piss me of even more if we do get some instalove bullshit at this point.

sorry. the servants were like "the king wants talis back to marry him to someone" and i was like. jeez isnt he a kid? bro. he was born on the battlefield, this takes place 20 years in the future. him and lares were just given such a juvenile plot and the writing for him was so Kid On An Adventure that i immediately was like bro Has to be 12-15.

listen. i get that its magic and such. but far too much of this book so far is 'and then he didnt understand why but from some strange compulsion he did a thing' atrix going to the battle and then summoning the rider, the king becoming the rider and the daughter watching the visions w the king, him going into the book, him now climbing the mountain. like come on.

sorry if patrica mckillip is so afraid of conflict between characters that she resolves a seeming lifelong hatred in a single conversation on the day that we meet two characters. i am going to explode. not everyone needs to get along! let tension simmer!!!!!! im not even 20 pages in!!!! but also flipside if they come to a resolution in this convo and then pretend it never happened next minute i'll also be annoyed lol

oh wait maybe talis ends up w lares bc i misread at first and thought they were siblings (and was confused bc of that lol)

my guesses were either nomance Or some weird "oh sff girlies in the 90s and before sure love a fucked up dynamic w.o realizing its fucked up" mage x missing princess thing. but as i have never finished a mckillip before bc the romances are always so dull and boring and bland. i see this prince in class being dull and go ahhh. she will end up with talis pelucir. and it will likely be an obnoxious instalove scenario.

"Hounds, she knew: her mother's were gold as sun, red as fire, white as bones."