I make my own fun, dammit.

[robling_t]

Halfway through New Moon now and I think I'll pause to observe that I'm pretty sure by this point that I'd say the underlying message of this series is "submit to the will of something more unknowably perfect than yourself and you may, emphasis may, aspire to become one of the Elect -- I mean, no guarantees, but we're only looking out for your interests". Whether this is supposed to be a metaphor for religion or a high-school clique, Idunno, but it does shed a certain amount of light on both why the demographics that have taken to these books, have really taken to them, and the demographics that are unimpressed, are violently allergic...

(I did pick up the other two books already, so long as I was in the library anyway for knitting-guild. I mean, I've plowed this far into it, you think I'm going to give up before it gets into the real cracky "how is demonbabby formed" stuff...?)