TTL: Section 4: 9th Cithrin - Entr’acte (Full Spoilers)

[Lindsay]

Full spoilers for the entire book. Please don't spoil later books.

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This section covers the 9th Cithrin chapter through to the end of the book. The first sentences of the section are:

Cithrin:
I don’t care how long it took you. I’m just so happy you wrote. Finding your letter there among all the others was the best moment of my day or week.

[Lindsay]

Continuing with a theme regarding Geder in these books: still nuts, but busy leveling up in terms of crazy. I think Cithrin may have broken him.

I want to just go straight on to the next book. I can't wait to see what they're going to do with a living dragon, and I'm fascinated to see what the Medean bank is going to do next with Cithrin. At this point you could just about imagine even Pyk welcoming Cithrin back.

Who would have thought that a banker and the bank she works for would be the heroic element of a story? The idea that a bank turns in a crisis from a wealth creation machine to a mammoth source for good in the world is probably the most fantastic element in the whole story given how we're all used to banks behaving.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Lindsay wrote: "I want to just go straight on to the next book."

See, and I did go straight into the next one. ^_^

I really think this is a great series that just keeps getting better.

For me the real interesting/unique element of this series is how he shows two people's rise to power (Cithrin and Geder) through entirely different means.

Geder uses the more typical fantasy path of might.

Meanwhile Cithrin uses the more modern day path of money. But yeah, I don't know any bank that would actually operate the way hers does. lol.

[Suzanne]

I haven't read the next one yet - I read up through this book before it was a group book. I'm definitely interested to see where all of this is going.

I agree - the whole banker power is pretty unique. And certainly fits with the title of the series. Geder is scaring me more and more. And...can't wait for the next book!