Slight change of tone: I LOVED Cassie in this book.
The way she talked about not being able to feel any more -not being able to sympathise or grieve -really hit me in the gut. I liked Cassie so much because she felt for people, and for her to have that loss of feeling seemed somehow worse than if anyone else had been feeling it. And the fact that she chose to leave instead of continue with slowly losing herself seemed both realistic and valid.
The whole Aftran part seemed very much tied into Cassie's ethics -she doesn't want to cause pain, doesn't want to kill a child, doesn't think that the ends justify the means. That she chose to let Aftran/Karen live was sort of a call-back to her previous decision to kill.
It wasn't necessarily a happy book, but it was beautiful. There was so much sadness and anger, and yet there was hope, too.
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Date: 2008-09-01 05:02 pm (UTC)The way she talked about not being able to feel any more -not being able to sympathise or grieve -really hit me in the gut. I liked Cassie so much because she felt for people, and for her to have that loss of feeling seemed somehow worse than if anyone else had been feeling it. And the fact that she chose to leave instead of continue with slowly losing herself seemed both realistic and valid.
The whole Aftran part seemed very much tied into Cassie's ethics -she doesn't want to cause pain, doesn't want to kill a child, doesn't think that the ends justify the means. That she chose to let Aftran/Karen live was sort of a call-back to her previous decision to kill.
It wasn't necessarily a happy book, but it was beautiful. There was so much sadness and anger, and yet there was hope, too.