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Sorry to shout, but just to be sure nobody still waiting can miss it and get upset. 
So. *bounces* I've been hoping to see a version of the Lone Power actually acknowledge what happened in HW, so I really enjoyed that. Actually, now that we have, and with the... mutual snarking going on, I have this amusing mental image of a future confrontation in which someone (maybe Kit) finds it appropriate to reiterate that they made promises to Life... and then to add thoughtfully, "Come to think of it, we promised you too." Since they did, in HW. "Stop them. Stop me." "We will." It would be interesting, anyway....
"Did I say 'You can't do that?' I meant, you can, but it's stupid." Is it just me, or did Esemeli sound startlingly like Q at this point? Which I suppose isn't that odd, but it made me blink.
Ambivalence. Can she actually tell much more clearly than Nita and Kit whether it was the force of the Binding Oath or a way of doing the right things without looking like it? (Either way, I rather doubt getting conked on the head with a stick was in the plan. ...Not a coconut though.)
The Lone Power, so far as I can tell, was still hanging around when Nita and Kit (for the second time, cf. A Wizard Abroad) fled a transformation they weren't ready for yet. How much does function follow form? If this fragment was present in Alaalid shape as the change took place, did it also go "the whole way the One had in mind" -- another fragment no longer (if that means anything to it) resisting? Does this make any sense at all?
There was something enchanting about that last little bit regarding the kek.
I couldn't help the feeling DD was answering or at least addressing a lot of questions people had been asking. What was up with the shadows of the Lone Power (actually, what I wanted to ask was more "Do we get to see a redeemed version being helpful besides sa'Rrahh fighting the Old Serpent?" but I'm weird that way), the logistics of conversational Speech and saying something you think is true and isn't (I suppose the verb tenses that started coming up in Alone began that), whether Dairine was still connected to the motherboard and mobiles, that sort of thing. I'm probably forgetting others due to being up too late.
Carmela's interactions with the aliens were utterly hilarious. I loved them.
I wonder if having been temporarily put out a couple years before had any effect on the sun? Did it tell Roshaun about that, or did he already know, or neither?
The possibilities both that Roshaun was on a Learning Experience regarding his own attitude and that he was a Learning Experience for Dairine regarding her own were discussed once the excerpts went up. Looks like the latter especially is well confirmed -- his calling her arrogant, Dairine having skimmed too fast and missed the report of what had happened to his planet long ago, after she was so annoyed at his apparently having neglected to read the information on her family.
Actually, the guests on earth lead me to another point... I mentioned questions being answered. Interestingly, while the plot questions specific to this book were resolved quite satisfactorily, the ones that were left open at the end of Alone... still seem to be open. The weirdness around Kit's house and Ponch especially is still unexplained, in particular.
And it opens up more; this book, far more so than the previous ones, seems to set up clearly for the next. I suppose it's partly Spot's little cliffhangery thing; it's also, of course, the disappearance of so many wizards in positions of authority that Dairine can't find anybody before the level of a Galactic Coordinator to authorize the intervention with the sun, and the "darkness" that wasn't sunspots interfering with them.... (Heh. So we've got Starsnuffer and Kindler of Wildfires again -- not to mention Filif, like Fred, being temporarily under the impression that Earth was a haven of sorts.... I loved Filif. Especially when he made Dairine and Roshaun stop and breathe and listen to each other.)
And they got around their power limits by using the worldgate the Powers "subsidized." That was brilliant. Brilliantly set up. And so very, very funny.
Are the books accelerating? I remarked at some point earlier that it was no wonder the characters needed a vacation, considering that we had:
A Wizard Abroad -- summer
The Wizard's Dilemma -- fall immediately following
A Wizard Alone -- that January
and now Wizard's Holiday during spring break, which I'm guessing is sometime in late March.
It looks to me as if the timing for Wizards at War will be even closer. Nita and Kit are home a few days early, so there are some days left of the break -- and of Roshaun's, Sker'ret's, and Filif's time on Earth. Somehow I don't see Sker'ret wanting to go home early; Roshaun rather less so! With all those wizards missing and Spot "uh-oh!"ing... It certainly looks to me as if the action's set up to continue pretty immediately. I strongly suspect Dairine's guests are still going to be in on things when the next plot breaks out.
So. *bounces* I've been hoping to see a version of the Lone Power actually acknowledge what happened in HW, so I really enjoyed that. Actually, now that we have, and with the... mutual snarking going on, I have this amusing mental image of a future confrontation in which someone (maybe Kit) finds it appropriate to reiterate that they made promises to Life... and then to add thoughtfully, "Come to think of it, we promised you too." Since they did, in HW. "Stop them. Stop me." "We will." It would be interesting, anyway....
"Did I say 'You can't do that?' I meant, you can, but it's stupid." Is it just me, or did Esemeli sound startlingly like Q at this point? Which I suppose isn't that odd, but it made me blink.
Ambivalence. Can she actually tell much more clearly than Nita and Kit whether it was the force of the Binding Oath or a way of doing the right things without looking like it? (Either way, I rather doubt getting conked on the head with a stick was in the plan. ...Not a coconut though.
)The Lone Power, so far as I can tell, was still hanging around when Nita and Kit (for the second time, cf. A Wizard Abroad) fled a transformation they weren't ready for yet. How much does function follow form? If this fragment was present in Alaalid shape as the change took place, did it also go "the whole way the One had in mind" -- another fragment no longer (if that means anything to it) resisting? Does this make any sense at all?
There was something enchanting about that last little bit regarding the kek.
I couldn't help the feeling DD was answering or at least addressing a lot of questions people had been asking. What was up with the shadows of the Lone Power (actually, what I wanted to ask was more "Do we get to see a redeemed version being helpful besides sa'Rrahh fighting the Old Serpent?" but I'm weird that way), the logistics of conversational Speech and saying something you think is true and isn't (I suppose the verb tenses that started coming up in Alone began that), whether Dairine was still connected to the motherboard and mobiles, that sort of thing. I'm probably forgetting others due to being up too late.
Carmela's interactions with the aliens were utterly hilarious. I loved them.
I wonder if having been temporarily put out a couple years before had any effect on the sun? Did it tell Roshaun about that, or did he already know, or neither?
The possibilities both that Roshaun was on a Learning Experience regarding his own attitude and that he was a Learning Experience for Dairine regarding her own were discussed once the excerpts went up. Looks like the latter especially is well confirmed -- his calling her arrogant, Dairine having skimmed too fast and missed the report of what had happened to his planet long ago, after she was so annoyed at his apparently having neglected to read the information on her family.
Actually, the guests on earth lead me to another point... I mentioned questions being answered. Interestingly, while the plot questions specific to this book were resolved quite satisfactorily, the ones that were left open at the end of Alone... still seem to be open. The weirdness around Kit's house and Ponch especially is still unexplained, in particular.
And it opens up more; this book, far more so than the previous ones, seems to set up clearly for the next. I suppose it's partly Spot's little cliffhangery thing; it's also, of course, the disappearance of so many wizards in positions of authority that Dairine can't find anybody before the level of a Galactic Coordinator to authorize the intervention with the sun, and the "darkness" that wasn't sunspots interfering with them.... (Heh. So we've got Starsnuffer and Kindler of Wildfires again -- not to mention Filif, like Fred, being temporarily under the impression that Earth was a haven of sorts.... I loved Filif. Especially when he made Dairine and Roshaun stop and breathe and listen to each other.)
And they got around their power limits by using the worldgate the Powers "subsidized." That was brilliant. Brilliantly set up. And so very, very funny.
Are the books accelerating? I remarked at some point earlier that it was no wonder the characters needed a vacation, considering that we had:
A Wizard Abroad -- summer
The Wizard's Dilemma -- fall immediately following
A Wizard Alone -- that January
and now Wizard's Holiday during spring break, which I'm guessing is sometime in late March.
It looks to me as if the timing for Wizards at War will be even closer. Nita and Kit are home a few days early, so there are some days left of the break -- and of Roshaun's, Sker'ret's, and Filif's time on Earth. Somehow I don't see Sker'ret wanting to go home early; Roshaun rather less so! With all those wizards missing and Spot "uh-oh!"ing... It certainly looks to me as if the action's set up to continue pretty immediately. I strongly suspect Dairine's guests are still going to be in on things when the next plot breaks out.
. It can't hurt to hope 
..a gurl can dream. I loved the other two cultural exchange wizards and there trips to the mall. I can imagen how crazy that must have been.
but i guess you can't live without them. I just wish i hadn't read the book cuase now i can't wait to read wizards at war *sigh* i guess i'll just have to wait.
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