Comments on: Review: On Wings Rising, by Ann Somerville

By: Victoria Janssen

Victoria Janssen — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:59:44 +0000

This one sounds interesting!

By: Mara

Mara — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:52:08 +0000

I was anti-wing, myself, before I read On Wings Rising, but I found it strangely appealing. Both sexy and somehow comforting, if that makes sense. Maybe because the author created such a convincing relationship between her characters. I felt I really experienced it vividly through Dinun’s eyes, and I felt his attraction for Moon. I do hope you read Reaching Higher, because it is wonderful, too.

By: jmc

jmc — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:39:10 +0000

Jessica, I’m so disappointed to learn that you are anti-wing. How could someone as open-minded as you (seem to be) be so close-minded to the plight of feathered creatures?

By: heidenkind

heidenkind — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:02:50 +0000

Anti-wing?! I never would have believed it of you, Jessica.

By: Ann Somerville

Ann Somerville — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:51:13 +0000

Jessica : I realized I had little to say about the female Angels and wasn’; sure if it was my reading or the text. Reply

Oh, it's the text. I certainly don't make any of that explicit, and I could have. Something to remember in world building.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:45:59 +0000

Thanks for the clarification, Ann. That wasn’t a criticism, by the way, just that when I was writing the review I realized I had little to say about the female Angels and wasn’; sure if it was my reading or the text.

By: Ann Somerville

Ann Somerville — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:42:09 +0000

Thanks for the review, Jessica (I wasn’t nervous at all, nope )

“I am not in general sure how important women are to the Angels’ culture.”

Central to it. During the period of bonding, the males impart the history of the race, and the language – they tell the child what it means to *be* an Angel. Bt then the child lives with the mother until adolescence, so the female parent teaches them how to *live* as an Angel, socialising them and integrating them into the clan. Both parents share care and discipline, and both sexes participate equally in hunting and so on

I think you’re right to see this as Dinun’s story. He’s the one who has the furthest to go towards contentment.