Moving on to Chapter 4 in The Shapeshifters’ Library: Released by Amber Polo.
Synopsis
In this chapter, Chronus makes himself known to Cutter, revealing the ancient history of shapeshifters, the presence of dog shapeshifters in the basements of the building, and their recent battle with the book-burning werewolves. Cutter takes a moment for it all to sink in, but finally accepts it. Chronus leaves her for a few days while construction commences on the academy to fully transform it into the new library.
Analysis
It is at this point that something completely unrelated to the prose has come to bother me. It’s the print. The printers used some sort of dot-based printer. Now I can’t help but notice the individual dots of each letter as I read the book. Ugh.
Besides that, though, I felt that this chapter existed solely to bring the reader (through Cutter) up to speed on what’s going on. There are shapeshifters, and they have existed since forever, and the dogs decided to become librarians to help catalog wisdom. The wolves have become book burners, dedicated to squashing ideas. And that’s what it’s been like until now. In some ways I’m reminded of A Series of Unfortunate Events.
I found it funny that the burning of the Library of Alexandria and the destruction of the Maya codices was blamed on werewolves, as were lesser problems, like the deeds of grumpy librarians and ill-informed parents who want to prevent their kids from reading The Catcher in the Rye. I think those events have something else in common, and it’s not werewolves… (with possible exception of the Library of Alexandria, but the jury’s still out)
All in all, each chapter has left me more “meh” than anything else. I read it because it has more pages, and that’s about it.
No comments:
Post a Comment