David Tate

David Tate wrote on September 27, 2005 at 10:43 AM:

The narration makes it retroactively clear just how much Chalion was the Daughter's book, as Paladin is the Bastard's

Aha! Thanks; you've just helped me nail down part of what I found so disappointing in The Hallowed Hunt. I was eagerly anticipating the Father's book (or the Mother's, or the Son's), and didn't get it. I suppose it was intended to be the Son's book, but it isn't -- not in anything like the way you refer to above.

(I think this may be tied into the way Ingrey doesn't really feel like the central character; the whole book is somehow off-center, so that the focal Deity and the focal mortal aren't actually foci at all...)

Ah well. This probably made more sense in my head before I tried to write it down. :-)

Kate

Kate wrote on September 27, 2005 at 11:05 AM:

David: I agree about _The Hallowed Hunt_; it's the Son's book, but Ijada has a much closer tie to the Son than Ingrey, which is all part of the way the landscape of the book is distorted.

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David Tate

Kate