I hope so to. In Thief, by the time we realized he was in real trouble, he had gotten himself out of it, and in Queen and king, he was in trouble right at the start, and we got to see him pull himself out. Part of the sadness I felt here might have been from the way Turner subverted that expectation. But as the other books not only ended on a high note, but could have also easily have been the last in the series, (even with the Mede hanging around) none of them really had that middle book middle of the problem feel. Conspiracy ended with everyone still in trouble, just a different sort than the trouble at the beginning.
I first read the first two when I was twelve, and they cemented my deep love for fictional (and it turns out, real life) political maneuvering, so I suppose I should stop being impressed. I'm convinced however, that the publishers did these books a huge disservice making them MG instead of YA, and this mis-classification may have a lot to do with why they've never been all that well known outside their rabid fanbase.
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Date: 2010-06-12 02:57 am (UTC)I first read the first two when I was twelve, and they cemented my deep love for fictional (and it turns out, real life) political maneuvering, so I suppose I should stop being impressed. I'm convinced however, that the publishers did these books a huge disservice making them MG instead of YA, and this mis-classification may have a lot to do with why they've never been all that well known outside their rabid fanbase.