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The Unlikely Ones

1999Mary Brown

4.5/5

I've had a few people tell me I absolutely had to read Mary Brown, I would love her.If I could remember who those people were I would curse them to a year of bad book reading.This was excruciatingly long, boring, and it sucked.I hate fantasy books that are all about the death of magic (Tolkien aside), especially where the death of magic is supposed to be some sort of metaphor for growing up. If I wanted to read about no magic I would pick up something other than a fantasy. And there seems to be this idea that being an adult means losing touch with your imagination, with fun, with magic. That only by becoming some boring, serious person who works and sleeps and nothing more, will you be an adult. Books like this wallow in the idea that giving up what you love, what makes you happy, is what makes you an adult. I suppose so we can be just as miserable as all those that came before and believed the same crap.So lesson one from this book: Growing up means abandoning your friends and all joy, but in return you can be labeled as a "responsible adult".Lesson two from this book: No matter how wonderful, loyal, giving, and loving you are, a beautiful face and high social standing are always more important. (view spoiler)[ The stupid arrogant knight says something along the lines of "I loved you as poor ugly Thing, but I adored you once I saw the beauty of your face and knew the truth of your heritage." Her face and her heritage have nothing to do with her thoughts or emotions, they are the most shallow things to judge her by, yet to the knight they are apparently the most important. (hide spoiler)]
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