I remember nothing about Silver on the Tree, sadly, but I believe your impression.
I don't know if I would call it the weakest of the sequence, but Cooper is right that it has almost no structure; it's full of vivid set pieces whose order I can almost never remember of which the last is the final meeting between the Light and the Dark. It's gorgeously, almost feverishly written. It hangs together more on dream logic than any of the other books. Bran's choice at the end has always been meaningful to me. And then it ceases to be meaningful the moment everyone's memory goes pfffft for the handwaviest of reasons. If you do re-read the sequence, I consider genarti's "To Remember for Always" (2004) essentially canonical.
And yeah, the fact that they'll remember each other when they do find each other does lessen the forgetfulness blow.
It's still alteration, but temporarily buried and then assured to be recovered memories feel very different to me from total magical deletion.
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I don't know if I would call it the weakest of the sequence, but Cooper is right that it has almost no structure; it's full of vivid set pieces whose order I can almost never remember of which the last is the final meeting between the Light and the Dark. It's gorgeously, almost feverishly written. It hangs together more on dream logic than any of the other books. Bran's choice at the end has always been meaningful to me. And then it ceases to be meaningful the moment everyone's memory goes pfffft for the handwaviest of reasons. If you do re-read the sequence, I consider
And yeah, the fact that they'll remember each other when they do find each other does lessen the forgetfulness blow.
It's still alteration, but temporarily buried and then assured to be recovered memories feel very different to me from total magical deletion.