We're ghosts in the wires, so set the electrical fires

[sovay]

I am experiencing some fairly major computer error and am not happy about it. Understatement. Profound. I am not looking for troubleshooting, but I may be scarce for a while. In the meantime, as last night I read and enjoyed Christelle Dabos' A Winter's Promise (Les fiancés de l'hiver, 2013/2018), would anyone be able to tell me if the quartet sticks the landing?

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[landofnowhere]

Not entirely, I would say; there are some unsatisfying aspects to the ending, though I'm glad to have read the whole thing (in French). This is what I said at the time. The second book is probably the best; the great worldbuilding continues, but some of the best characters from the first two books get shortchanged in the second half.

Happy to go into more detail on anything!

[sovay]

This is what I said at the time.

Thank you for the link!

Happy to go into more detail on anything!

Seeing as it looks even from the first book to be shaping up into theological fantasy: does it stick that part of the landing specifically? I recognize that everyone has different parameters on that front, but to give a sense of where I am coming from, I greatly enjoyed the first book of His Dark Materials and by the third book was extremely unimpressed with Pullman's treatment of Christianity as default multiversal reality, whether he was reacting negatively to it or not.

[landofnowhere]

At this point my memories of the last book are a bit blurry, but I remember the theological arc being reasonably well resolved and not particularly problematic -- I didn't perceive it as engaging with Christianity at all the way that Pullman is.

[sovay]

but I remember the theological arc being reasonably well resolved and not particularly problematic -- I didn't perceive it as engaging with Christianity at all the way that Pullman is.

Cool!