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kerravonsen) wrote2013-03-30 11:20 am
kerravonsen) wrote2013-03-30 11:20 am
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Ultraviolet
I did as I had promised myself, and set aside Good Friday and Easter Saturday to read ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rj_anderson's ULTRAVIOLET. I finished it sooner than I expected, possibly because I woke up at 5am this morning and continued reading.
Spoiler-free review here.
Spoilery discussion!
I cried at the end. I did. I have the sads. I did not expect Faraday to stay behind, and it broke my heart that Alison and Faraday are forever parted. Don't talk to me of hope - it's a big universe, the chances of getting another wormhole to find Earth are infinitesimal, and Faraday's probably going to be executed for treason anyway.
Even if the worst doesn't happen, I will never know, because RJA is not going to tell us. QUICKSILVER is a companion volume, not a sequel. It's Tori's story, and we are not going to find out anything more about Alison and Faraday. I am sad, I tell you, sad!
All that being said, I'm not cross at RJA for ending the book that way. It was the hard-but-right way to end it.
Still sad, though.
(Ahem) Other rambly thoughts...
I liked the importance of names in this, minor though it was.
There was a moment or two when I felt a resemblance between Alison + Faraday and Maud + Severus in RJA's "Darkness and Light" series. Probably at the moments when they are desperately being torn apart.
Of course, the much more obvious resemblance is between Alison and Thea in the long-gone "Touching Indigo", but that goes without saying, since one was the precursor to the other. I don't say "based on", because they are different characters in my mind, really.
Speaking of "Touching Indigo", I had a bit of cognitive dissonance at the start (especially since Part 1 was titled "The Scent of Yesterday") because it was like and yet not like "Touching Indigo", and it wasn't until Faraday came on the scene that it settled into being a different story in my mind.
Faraday's people - ugh! No wonder there's a rebellion happening, they have a genetically engineered caste system. Well, that's what it boils down to. And a callous disregard for sentient life.
Maybe RJA needs to write a third volume, this time about Faraday and how he helps the revolution... and then gets back to Alison. No, I know, wishful thinking, will never happen. (sigh)
Edited to add:
One thing I find fascinating about Faraday is that his listening skills which he developed as a survival mechanism, became something he valued for itself.
rj_anderson's ULTRAVIOLET. I finished it sooner than I expected, possibly because I woke up at 5am this morning and continued reading.Spoiler-free review here.
Spoilery discussion!
I cried at the end. I did. I have the sads. I did not expect Faraday to stay behind, and it broke my heart that Alison and Faraday are forever parted. Don't talk to me of hope - it's a big universe, the chances of getting another wormhole to find Earth are infinitesimal, and Faraday's probably going to be executed for treason anyway.
Even if the worst doesn't happen, I will never know, because RJA is not going to tell us. QUICKSILVER is a companion volume, not a sequel. It's Tori's story, and we are not going to find out anything more about Alison and Faraday. I am sad, I tell you, sad!
All that being said, I'm not cross at RJA for ending the book that way. It was the hard-but-right way to end it.
Still sad, though.
(Ahem) Other rambly thoughts...
I liked the importance of names in this, minor though it was.
There was a moment or two when I felt a resemblance between Alison + Faraday and Maud + Severus in RJA's "Darkness and Light" series. Probably at the moments when they are desperately being torn apart.
Of course, the much more obvious resemblance is between Alison and Thea in the long-gone "Touching Indigo", but that goes without saying, since one was the precursor to the other. I don't say "based on", because they are different characters in my mind, really.
Speaking of "Touching Indigo", I had a bit of cognitive dissonance at the start (especially since Part 1 was titled "The Scent of Yesterday") because it was like and yet not like "Touching Indigo", and it wasn't until Faraday came on the scene that it settled into being a different story in my mind.
Faraday's people - ugh! No wonder there's a rebellion happening, they have a genetically engineered caste system. Well, that's what it boils down to. And a callous disregard for sentient life.
Maybe RJA needs to write a third volume, this time about Faraday and how he helps the revolution... and then gets back to Alison. No, I know, wishful thinking, will never happen. (sigh)
Edited to add:
One thing I find fascinating about Faraday is that his listening skills which he developed as a survival mechanism, became something he valued for itself.