slauderdale’s Reviews > The Wizard's Dilemma > Status Update

Edge of your seat reading and some really good scenes - Nita and the Lone Power, Nita and Nita's mom and the Lone Power, etc. - but parts of it felt a little chewy, if that makes sense. I'm glad she got to use her subroutines. Poor Pralaya! And his 36 kids! Surely that is going to come back later. I guess I still need to finish this book, though.

I confess that I don't really "get" what Nita's doing in these practice universes. Figuring out how to change universal laws, sure...but she's going to have a hard time practicing on cancer without practicing on actual cancer.

This one’s personal. I knew Nita‘s mom was going to be diagnosed with cancer; I didn’t know what kind (although given her headaches and vision trouble, I should’ve guessed.) My mom had a brain aneurysm when I was 14; she survived. My daughter got a concussion two Fridays ago. She seems perfectly herself, knock on wood, but we’re still waiting on that third MRI. I’m a little sensitive about head shit.

We still don't know the true nature of it, but "magic-crayon country" makes me think of Rose's Room from "Steven Universe." On a side note, what is the "old children's book" being referenced when Kit imagines "an elephant with three hairs in its tail"?

I enjoyed the previous book, but I think this one’s actually going down a little smoother. Granted, it’s early.

I have a feeling that Nita’s convo about dinosaurs refers to events from “the book of night with moon,” but I read that 20+ years ago now, *once*, so I’m really not up on particulars. 'Course, I read “high wizardry“ even longer ago and that left me with much clearer memories, but then, I wasn’t as keen on the feline wizard books. (and yet I’m already considering buying new copies for a reread…)

Wait a minute, NOW how much time is supposed to have passed? Because page 62, Kit is apparently 13 years old. But Nina started out the books at age 13, and he was just one year younger. Shouldn’t he be, like, 14 1/2 or 15 by now?