Dawn of Wonder (The Wakening Book 1)

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I want to just copy and paste the whole section because I really like how Renshaw describes Aedan’s feelings, but I won’t. It fled across the branch, disappearing up the walnut trunk and into a knot hole as if drawn by a string. What information he does provide feels like empty melodrama because there’s nothing of substance in the story to back it up. The characters and their relationships as well as the clear understanding of resource exploitation (in relation to craft and politics) are what sold the book over and over for me. Aedan, I think we might have killed him,” Kalry said, her eyes on the frothy impact point far below.

The higher-ups tell Aedan and company to not tell anyone about the giant animal they saw so that people won’t panic. Predictions: Because he’s usually right about things when Harriet isn’t, Aedan is probably going to get that job with the marshals instead of getting turned away because he’s twelve, somehow. In the beginning of the chapter Aedan is going around the city with his friends and other soldiers – including Cameron the guard that Aedan met when he first arrived to Castath – dressing up as women and other easy-looking victims so the hooligans will try to attack them, then they’d take the hooligans down instead.

Mostly they talk about how to change Aedan’s training so he can learn to not freeze in certain situations.

Dawn of Wonder’s examination of this aspect works on some levels but there are at least some caveats. In this case, maybe someone cut down the tree, it appeared to be a dead stump for fifty years, and then one sprouted from the stump and quickly formed a new tree. If you have a question that you would like to send in, there is a form you can fill out on Mythcreants. Whatever we might say about the quality of the book’s prose, you simply don’t get that kind of positive response unless you’re doing something right. I’m not saying Aedan should settle down and learn how to be a chef, and children ought to have big dreams… I think it’s just his attitude that I don’t like.An impact wave isn’t that original, but Renshaw knows how to create a visceral image of what’s happening. Granted, I don’t see any people in front of me as I type away at this computer screen, but, even if I were seeing any of the people who read my blog, I don’t think I’d see any hands.

And here is all the exposition where Renshaw could have added those few extra facts about Aedan, like how he lies about his age. If there is another, even more climax-like climax of this book, I’ll eat everything I’m saying right now, but it feels like Renshaw just introduced a whole bunch of characters for the climax of the book (Tyne, Thormar, Merter, Rork, Fergal (debatably)) and expected us to care about them as if they were as established as Nessa or Peashot. Aedan is hiding and he overhears them talk about some secret related to the tremors that the city’s been feeling.And then, once training is completed, or interrupted, there comes the quest into danger with a motley assortment of comrades. If Renshaw had included another girl who wasn’t scared in this scene, Kalry’s fear would feel more like part of her character and less like a stereotype. If they are pointing up and I’m going down, it could be like the time I …” He turned a glorious ruby red and glanced over at Kalry.

We can see how that decision affects him now, in the present, do we need to see the whole backstory? There’s also a reason why the ‘Lessons from…’ posts only include the first chapter in most cases: the first chapter is where most people decide whether or not to spend more time with a book. I feel like the book is going to come back to these questions later, so I’m just making a note of it here. I know I was demanding more inner turmoil a moment ago, but I don’t believe it’s really necessary to go more in depth with Osric’s father.They’re there for a while the both of them start healing from their burns, but Aedan is still covered in bandages. The events that follow propel Aedan on a journey that only the foolhardy or desperate would risk, leading him to the gates of the nation's royal academy - a whole world of secrets in itself. Anyway, Aedan gets in trouble for listening but he gets in more trouble for getting caught listening, and he’s told not to tell anyone what he’s heard. Thormar gives Aedan his pipe and tells Aedan to aim for peace with all his actions – paraphrased, but, general idea.