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jeninmotion 's review for:
Castle of Wizardry
by David Eddings
First: Ce'Nedra peacing out in the Hall of the Rivan King once she realizes what's up is one of the greatest moments in the whole series and also hilarious. Also that later, Polgara and Belgarath are like, "yeah, it took an actual god to get Ce'Nedra to go to Riva, you do not want to fuck with that girl" is pretty great.
Ce'Nedra does not get enough credit from anyone, though I appreciate in the next book Ran Borune is like "she gave me an epileptic fit to steal the legions! BOSS BITCH KWEEN". We're talking a 16 year old princess raised to believe the Prophecy is fake, who has been sleeping on the ground with the truest believers, brainwashed by a god to go to Riva, forced to marry a guy out of nowhere and be happy about it, who still has the tactical wherewithal to realize the army needs a figurehead and logical reasons why she is the best choice AND pulls off this plan with basically zero adult supervision or help. If I were the Alorn kings and my 16 year old boy figurehead ran off to be a noble idiot and took the best sorcerer and spy in the world and this 16 year old girl is like "hi, I volunteer as tribute and I understand that I'm not actually doing military planning, just being a figurehead and raising troops including the legions you desperately need and will not be able to otherwise get!" I'd be like "YAS BOSS BITCH RIVAN KWEEN!" and not 5 chapters of "but she's a GIRL!" after three thousand years of Polgara doing whatever she wanted and giving 0.0 fucks about it.
Oh, no, she can be kind of shrill and stuck-up, except in any situation where that's not called for. See also her entire reaction to Faldor's once Garion gives up Zubrette. I mean, random peasant girl too good to sleep on ground, but not the Imperial princess? I'd be miffed, too. She saves the wren for Polgara. When Layla calls Ce'Nedra on her kind of justified fit, she's like "OMG, you mean Garion and the world's gonna die unless this army works? so how do I make the army work?" and Ce'Nedra *finds the damn answer*. She even has genuine ethical dilemmas she worries over like a real person!
What I'm saying is that Ce'Nedra is the real MVP of this book and I think she's slept on as a great female fantasy character. Thus ends another one of my rambles about these books, which I love too much.
Ce'Nedra does not get enough credit from anyone, though I appreciate in the next book Ran Borune is like "she gave me an epileptic fit to steal the legions! BOSS BITCH KWEEN". We're talking a 16 year old princess raised to believe the Prophecy is fake, who has been sleeping on the ground with the truest believers, brainwashed by a god to go to Riva, forced to marry a guy out of nowhere and be happy about it, who still has the tactical wherewithal to realize the army needs a figurehead and logical reasons why she is the best choice AND pulls off this plan with basically zero adult supervision or help. If I were the Alorn kings and my 16 year old boy figurehead ran off to be a noble idiot and took the best sorcerer and spy in the world and this 16 year old girl is like "hi, I volunteer as tribute and I understand that I'm not actually doing military planning, just being a figurehead and raising troops including the legions you desperately need and will not be able to otherwise get!" I'd be like "YAS BOSS BITCH RIVAN KWEEN!" and not 5 chapters of "but she's a GIRL!" after three thousand years of Polgara doing whatever she wanted and giving 0.0 fucks about it.
Oh, no, she can be kind of shrill and stuck-up, except in any situation where that's not called for. See also her entire reaction to Faldor's once Garion gives up Zubrette. I mean, random peasant girl too good to sleep on ground, but not the Imperial princess? I'd be miffed, too. She saves the wren for Polgara. When Layla calls Ce'Nedra on her kind of justified fit, she's like "OMG, you mean Garion and the world's gonna die unless this army works? so how do I make the army work?" and Ce'Nedra *finds the damn answer*. She even has genuine ethical dilemmas she worries over like a real person!
What I'm saying is that Ce'Nedra is the real MVP of this book and I think she's slept on as a great female fantasy character. Thus ends another one of my rambles about these books, which I love too much.