Post by Hope on Sept 7, 2009 14:59:57 GMT -5
I'm including these two fairly different stories by two seperate authors into one review because of a common theme--the disconnect between head, hormones, and heart.
Trini's character, Y'sa, has left her old life behind, supposedly without regrets...but an encounter with an old teacher/colleague/friend/lover (it's complicated) upsets the comfortable certainty of her life. She has feelings--unwillingly, unpleasantly--that cannot just be wished away. Even with illusion gone, emotion is far from dead.
Anna's Evlyn has purposely made a life for herself alone at StarRise, even though she is still in love with her abusive, faithless former weyrmate. Where Ysa is bruised, Evlyn is scarred, fighting to reclaim, or recreate, a life for herself. When her old lover shows up, expecting to immediately take up where they left off, it takes all her strength to refuse to return to him. Love...in both these stories, unrequited...is not enough.
As a reader, I would really like to see these two characters get to know each other, become friends, and eventually punch out each other's old lovers. Even without that happy, happy scene--come on, wouldn't that be GREAT?!--I think that they could learn a lot from each other, and support each other on their individual journies of self-actualization.
Trini's character, Y'sa, has left her old life behind, supposedly without regrets...but an encounter with an old teacher/colleague/friend/lover (it's complicated) upsets the comfortable certainty of her life. She has feelings--unwillingly, unpleasantly--that cannot just be wished away. Even with illusion gone, emotion is far from dead.
Anna's Evlyn has purposely made a life for herself alone at StarRise, even though she is still in love with her abusive, faithless former weyrmate. Where Ysa is bruised, Evlyn is scarred, fighting to reclaim, or recreate, a life for herself. When her old lover shows up, expecting to immediately take up where they left off, it takes all her strength to refuse to return to him. Love...in both these stories, unrequited...is not enough.
As a reader, I would really like to see these two characters get to know each other, become friends, and eventually punch out each other's old lovers. Even without that happy, happy scene--come on, wouldn't that be GREAT?!--I think that they could learn a lot from each other, and support each other on their individual journies of self-actualization.
