[Dragaera] Dzur reactions (SPOILERS, dammit)

[tom sausman]

Really I didn't read it let (broke), but I didn't think of anything 
remarkable?

Kate Nepveu wrote:

>On 8/8/06, Johne Cook <johne.cook at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Ack, what's the list's spoiler policy? Do I need blank lines?
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>Just to be safe, since these are huge spoilers:
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>REALLY BIG SPOILERS
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>SPOILERS NEXT
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>>Bloodless climaxes may be all the rage in diplomacy, but I was sort of
>>yearning for something... else.
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>Aww, see, that's what I love about it. In the last book about a
>war-like House, _Dragon_, Vlad's desparately trying to *become* a
>Dragon--and is deeply unhappy and unsuited for it.
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>Here, he learns about the Dzur, and then deliberately chooses *not* to
>act as  a Dzur, because he _isn't_. In fact, he does not personally
>kill a single person in this book, which I believe must be a
>first--Lady Teldra does, and he orders a killing, but Vlad himself
>doesn't kill anyone.
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>It shows how far he's come, and that's really important.
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>Other things accomplished: finding out about Vlad Norathar, seeing the
>influence of Lady Teldra, even before she's woken up, seeing Mario,
>meeting the Lavode-in-training.
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>So I'm good with what we've got, because I love the treatment of his
>relationship to the Dzur so much. I did expect, as I said in my
>review, that a lot of people might have the "move it along, already"
>reaction, and that's not unreasonable.  Personally, I'm beginning to
>wonder if the impossible situation with the Organization is going to
>take most of the rest of the series to resolve--once that's gone, the
>threat level to Vlad goes *way* down, after all--interspersed with the
>"Vlad goes East" book and whatever is going on with Verra. I'm just
>speculating, of course.
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>In sum: character development makes me happy.
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