Dead chuffed

[sheenaghpugh]

... to hear that Catherine Fisher's Incarceron is longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Apart from how gripping and thought-provoking it is, I've fallen seriously in love with one of the characters, the hero's best friend Keiro, who may or may not be on the side of the angels - I foresee major angst in the sequel, with any luck.

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[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

Brilliant news! I'm with you in foreseeing angst too - trying to reassure myself with a reminder that she doesn't generally write ambiguous characters only to slap 'em over to the Dark Side with a vengeance. Right?

[sheenaghpugh]

true.. but she's not scared of portraying evil either. I've rarely been so disappointed as I was in the sequel to Tanith Lee's Piratica. I thought the first book as good a children's book as I'd read in ages, but in the second I got seriously annoyed with how Lee seemed determined to rehabilitate all the villains she'd established in the last book and explain they'd all had unhappy childhoods or whatever (that excuses everything, apparently). Me, I think having a villain you are allowed to hate adds greatly to the enjoyment of a chidldren's book!