Comments on: Review: A Conspiracy of Kings, Megan Whalen Turner

By: Terenbas

Terenbas — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 04:19:49 +0000

I want to see more interaction between the following characters.
Eugenides and his father.
We only ever know he’s the “minister of war” and he’s a badass. More please. I want to see some father-son Mede ass-kicking.

Gen and Ornon
What happened to Ornan’s sheep?

Gen and Nahuaseresh
WHEN IS THEY”RE EPIC BATTLE HAPPENING?? GIVE ME SOME SWORD AND HOOK ACTION!!!!

Gen and Irene
One of the most interesting, substantial, and romantic relationships I’ve read about in a long time.

Eugenides and Eugenidies
Some more God of Thieves action please.

By: fairyring

fairyring — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:42:20 +0000

I loved reading the fourth book. I enjoyed Sophos’ point of view and I agree with you that what Ms. Turner was aiming for was accomplished. I certainly hope there is a fifth book! And I think Attolia/Irene wouldn’t be so boring. She is very reserved on the outside, true, but I can’t help but think that there is a lot going on inside her head. Turner could always expound on that and it would make for some humorous reading when Attolia and Gen are going at it. =)

By: anna

anna — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:51:11 +0000

Jenny? I have a confession to make.

In international humanitarian law, I naturally took notes, and since the Geneva Conventions were big in that class, I naturally abbreviated them to be Gen. And now, inside my head, I have a picture of a hook-handed ThiefKing enforcing the laws of war sneakily in the background whenever I think of the Geneva Conventions.

By: anna

anna — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:49:00 +0000

In reply to Jenny. I really liked having an initially uninvolved character POV in Costis. It let you see reactions of people around Gen a bit more.

By: Trapunto

Trapunto — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:31:44 +0000

In reply to Charlotte. I got that impression too, about Sophos' sister. That we're meant to want to know more about her.

By: Trapunto

Trapunto — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:29:08 +0000

Attolia would be a perfect POV character for Turner. A virtuoso exercise. Half of Attolia’s appeal is her inscrutability and intensity and pure FORCE, combined with her really, really, hidden vulnerabilities. A lesser author would just psychoanalyse her into a puddle of boring. I think Turner might be able to pull back and sort of come at her sideways–even in Attolia’s own voice–just enough that her central mystery would remain intact for readers, while they came to understand her a bit better.

Sweetness of spirit is the only way to say it, about Sophos. Reading this post made me feel kind feelings for him all over again.

You can link to my review if you like. It feels a bit wordy and abstracted to me now. http://villanegativa.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/a-conspiracy-of-kings-by-megan-whalen-turner/

By: Memory

Memory — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:19:45 +0000

In reply to Jenny.

Argh, you caught my redacted footnote!

When I typed up my comment, I accidentally wrote gaining-the-thrown instead of gaining-the-throne. When I proofread (which I don’t always do), I caught the stupid mistake and thought, “Hey, that’s funny! I’ll share that with the world!” So I added the footnote, then decided that maybe the world didn’t need to know about that particular piece of stupidity (because, let’s face it, that was a pretty durned stupid mistake). I deleted the footnote, but I forgot to delete the asterisk denoting the footnote because I didn’t re-proofread.

Also: I think I like your ideal world better. Lots more books to look forward to.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:14:11 +0000

In reply to jenclair.

I hope your library has it, or gets it in soon! I almost wish I’d waited a few more years to discover this series, considering how long it takes Turner to write each one – now I can’t wait for the fifth book!

By: jenclair

jenclair — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:44:35 +0000

I skimmed the review (closing my mind’s eye so as not to see spoilers). I love this series! Turner does some of the best fantasy around for any age. Can’t wait to get my hands on this one!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:51:09 +0000

In reply to Memory.

Dude, you put an asterisk and then didn’t put anything to go with the asterisk. Have you hidden the footnote somewhere on the internet? I NEED TO KNOW THE FOOTNOTE NOW.

But yeah, the gaining the throne scene was great. I was kind of ashamed of myself for cheering and feeling massively fond of Sophos for doing a deed that in real life I would think was totally wicked! I appreciate it that Megan Whalen Turner doesn’t let her characters do momentous deeds without worrying about them afterward.

In my ideal world, Megan Whalen Turner never ever stops writing these books. She writes one of these books every (I’m not greedy) two years, with much worldbuilding and maybe a fresh generation of characters, and they continue to be awesome forever until I die.

I do not know how I missed your review! I remember thinking, Ah, yes, here’s Memory’s review, and copying the link. Obviously I got distracted and never pasted it. That’s what happens when I write reviews on weekends while watching Hustle. It’s in there now!