Kino
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P.W. Catanese:
Hello :) I know you are awfully busy as writers often are (and at the same time, not) but I hope you can clarify something for me and maybe for others about one of the most jarring scenes in the 2nd book and definitely the one that made this series rise quite a few levels for me personally. Do soul crabs get your soul or your memories?
P.W. Catanese
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(view spoiler)[Hello Kino Kino! The soul crabs are one of my favorite inventions. You are asking the essential question, the one that makes those monsters unnerving. If they are just devouring shipwreck victims and absorbing their memories, that's disturbing enough, but if a soul is trapped forever along with the memories, that is truly awful. I can't give you the answer because this is what Umber has to struggle with when he makes that terrible decision near the end of the book. In fact, if you are reading between the lines, you may have realized that this act is what hurls him into the deep depression that begins book 3. I hate to dodge the question, but it's good for the reader to understand the decision that Umber was making, and not know the true answer. The thing that haunts him in this case should also haunt you, the reader! (hide spoiler)]
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Autumn
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P.W. Catanese:
My father is blind, and an avid reader/listener. We recommend books to one another regularly. I was able to find an audio version of Happenstance Found, which he loved. Neither my father or I have been able to locate an audio version of the final 2Books of Umber - not in the Library for the Blind, local library, or Amazon - even though it appears they were once released on audio. Any chance they will be again?
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