I ship Anna and Alex. Why? because of everyone, of all of her friends, Anna matters most. It's cruel to say that, but everyone else (of her friends) she's been there, repeatedly. She's been persistant and caring and I'm pretty sure that if not for her efforts, everyone else would have left her by now. Anna is the one who keeps reaching out and holding on, even when Alex would push everyone away... Someone else commented that she was a follower... Nah. Anna simply knows that Alex is a leader and can't be lead herself. Can't rely on others. So she's worked to put herself, and her others in a position where Alex CAN turn to them and ask for help. and.. she's succeeded. When Alex has had to go against the trust of her friends, it's most often Anna she thinks about, and it's Anna she worries about. Anna reminds me of a lot of Oriental families I know... where the "man" is the head of household, while the woman quietly controls her husband :3
Though secondarily, Alex and Brian would be cute together one day <3 <3 but right NOW, Brian doesn't have enough play in the series. --at current state, I could see her ending being heading back to Larkin Mills after a long battle and Brian being kind to her.. and... kind of a blooming hope sort of thing before the cover of the last book closed... but he also would make a good 'sacrifice' to the book gods... a character who the audience and main character cares about, but the audience is not deeply emotionally tied into.
Anyway, I picked deathly or lands for favorite, I think. Don't quite remember. Stars didn't get my winning vote simply because I didn't enjoy the pacing at the end so much. all of the stuff out in the desert was exciting and thrilling.... then she came home, was paranoid for a while (which I loved) and then suddenly, plot climax out of left field. I was kinda left going "wait, it's over?" which removed some of the fun for me from the book. Plus, I loved Max <3 The difference might be the difference between a complete book I read over a few days sitting, and a book I started reading 'in progress' and had to wait for several weeks to see the conclusions of. WHile the later is of course VERY exciting, it's a lot harder to become fully invested in a story that way..... I maybe have to go reread in a little bit. :D
for least fave I think I chose thorn circle, but I wonder if I should take that back... thorn circle as a lot of fun for me also because it was the first step. it had all of the magic in it. just like the first few chapters of harry potter, Alexandra at he pond, with the kappa, learning the ins and out of magical school was thrilling. I LOVE the 'discovery' in such stories. Hearkens back, I expect, to my increasingly dwindling hope that an owl will knock on my window some day and go "hi! I know you're nearly 30, but COME TO our MAGIC school and learn how special you REALLY are!" :)
as for endings... well, it does depend on how things keep going. The one difference between Alexandra and Harry is that Harry had Voldemort. a very clear and simple enemy. Alex... does not have an enemy with a face. She fights against the very nature of fate itself, it seems. (there are bad guys with faces, but none of them are "Voldemort") ... thus, i'ts hard to get a feeling for how things 'will' end... So, I think I default to the idea that this is not a story where everyone is doomed. This is not a story where everyone except alex/anna/whatever dies. I COULD see it being a story where Alex dies.... but I don't think so. will someone die? very possibly. Will people be hurt? possibly disfigured? Oh, yes. I think that very much as a possibility. ... but I think the over all tone of the ending will be "we won!" .. but not happily ever after. :C I dunno, I'm rambling :)
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Though secondarily, Alex and Brian would be cute together one day <3 <3 but right NOW, Brian doesn't have enough play in the series. --at current state, I could see her ending being heading back to Larkin Mills after a long battle and Brian being kind to her.. and... kind of a blooming hope sort of thing before the cover of the last book closed... but he also would make a good 'sacrifice' to the book gods... a character who the audience and main character cares about, but the audience is not deeply emotionally tied into.
Anyway, I picked deathly or lands for favorite, I think. Don't quite remember. Stars didn't get my winning vote simply because I didn't enjoy the pacing at the end so much. all of the stuff out in the desert was exciting and thrilling.... then she came home, was paranoid for a while (which I loved) and then suddenly, plot climax out of left field. I was kinda left going "wait, it's over?" which removed some of the fun for me from the book. Plus, I loved Max <3 The difference might be the difference between a complete book I read over a few days sitting, and a book I started reading 'in progress' and had to wait for several weeks to see the conclusions of. WHile the later is of course VERY exciting, it's a lot harder to become fully invested in a story that way..... I maybe have to go reread in a little bit. :D
for least fave I think I chose thorn circle, but I wonder if I should take that back... thorn circle as a lot of fun for me also because it was the first step. it had all of the magic in it. just like the first few chapters of harry potter, Alexandra at he pond, with the kappa, learning the ins and out of magical school was thrilling. I LOVE the 'discovery' in such stories. Hearkens back, I expect, to my increasingly dwindling hope that an owl will knock on my window some day and go "hi! I know you're nearly 30, but COME TO our MAGIC school and learn how special you REALLY are!" :)
as for endings... well, it does depend on how things keep going. The one difference between Alexandra and Harry is that Harry had Voldemort. a very clear and simple enemy. Alex... does not have an enemy with a face. She fights against the very nature of fate itself, it seems. (there are bad guys with faces, but none of them are "Voldemort") ... thus, i'ts hard to get a feeling for how things 'will' end... So, I think I default to the idea that this is not a story where everyone is doomed. This is not a story where everyone except alex/anna/whatever dies. I COULD see it being a story where Alex dies.... but I don't think so. will someone die? very possibly. Will people be hurt? possibly disfigured? Oh, yes. I think that very much as a possibility. ... but I think the over all tone of the ending will be "we won!" .. but not happily ever after. :C I dunno, I'm rambling :)