"Eon" How does Eon/Eona being crippled add to the story?

[Qylie]

I know a lot of readers who find it more interesting when the main character in a story is crippled. In this story they spend a lot of time discussing physical prowess and appearance, how do you think it adds or detracts from the overall picture.

[♥Xeni♥]

I find it most interesting, actually, that the people around her expect her to still act normal, as though she weren't crippled.

Example: while bowing she still has to kneel and so forth the same way as any of the other people, even though she more or less has to drag one leg into position with her hands. (Spoiler from about 40% in the story. (view spoiler)[Even later as Lord Eon, she still has to bow properly to the Emperor and the royal family. (hide spoiler)]

[♥Xeni♥]

Okay, 70% of the way into the book.

(view spoiler)[Yeah, I did not expect to learn that her master had her crippled. Selfish, greedy, power-starved bastard. Makes me actually wonder as to his motives for 'buying' her in the first place. Was that his pedophile-ness acting out, or did he honestly just want to use her abilities to see all the dragons? (hide spoiler)]

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

I don't know if I'd say I find it more interesting when the main character is crippled as much as I'd say it's nice to see people who aren't physically perfect be the main character.

I didn't find it surprising that she was still expecting to act normally. The culture depicted clearly doesn't have any sympathy for anyone not normal, and protocol trumps all. We saw that when (view spoiler)[Brannon was dying and they couldn't get a physician there because of the protocol of the emperial protocol. (hide spoiler)]

I was disappointed in the ending, though. I predicted it as soon as she was in the Moon Garden the first time, but I'd hoped that it wouldn't go that way, but it did...

[♥Xeni♥]

On the note of your spoiler: (view spoiler)[What was up later with the small mention of the Prince wanting to hunt down the Royal Physician for his supposed involvement and then nothing came of it? Another case where there could have been political intrigue but it died down as suddenly as it sprouted? (hide spoiler)]

The ending left me annoyed... mainly because there was no ending. The predictability didn't annoy me as much, since books of this character are usually pretty easy to predict, the fun is in seeing how things will work out. But there wasn't much fun for me to see how everything turned out here!

[Michelle]

picking up my copy from the library tomorrow...is her becoming crippled a plot point? I.e., is the title of this thread a spoiler? might wanna change that if so.

[♥Xeni♥]

No, it's one of the first things you learn about her.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

Xeni - re your spoiler. Um... there was no time. He says it when Eon comes to (view spoiler)[be the second mourner at his father's mourning period. That same day Eon confesses she's Eona, and they go to reclaim the book, the compound gets attacked, and the Prince is whisked off to safety. We don't seem him again after he gets whisked away, but I'm guessing he'll come into the next story.

But there wasn't exactly any time for anything to have come of it just yet. (hide spoiler)]


The lack of an ending didn't bother me. I don't know if I was expecting it or not, since I knew it was a duology and wasn't expecting things to be wrapped up, but it left me wanting to read more.

[Veronika KaoruSaionji]

I mean her injury is importat to hide that she is girl - and it is importat for her relationship toward her Mister. She hates him because it - but she loves him, too. She must forgive him, and this is for her very, very hard... I like this thing. Very clever and interesting.