Sea Kings of Mars by Leigh Brackett 5 points

I did some research on the author and Leigh Brackett is a very important writer and screenplay writer. She is often referred to as the Queen of Opera and one of her most notable screenplays was  Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.  As the semester comes to an end, it's getting harder to stay motivated enough to finish reading all the books week to week. At first, I didn't really enjoy reading this book, I don't know if it was because I'm mentally exhausted or because I genuinely didn't really like it at first, but either way, it was hard to get through the first couple of chapters. I did some research and this book is actually like the Naming a sword Rhiannon, they had to know that most people would associate that with the Fleetwood Mac song. I thought that was pretty funny, but every time I read the word, I always thought of the song first instead of the evil god sword. Funny enough though, they recently added Easy A back on to Netflix and one of the main protagonist's names is Rhiannon so I got curious. The name originates from Old Celtic and means "great queen" and the name is a huge part of a Welsh legend, that many artists have been inspired from. The name is often used to describe evil characters and is commonly associated with witchy type characters as well. I really enjoyed the little rabbit hole I went down on because of the novel, it was quite interesting. In this story, the sword of Rhiannon belongs to a Martian God whose downfall was his pride; a Martian Prometheus if you will. Carse, an archaeologist turned thief, almost blindly follows this man, Penkawr, who came up to him on the street because of his peaked interest in a claim of having the sword of Rhiannon, which he did, but ultimately trusting this man was a poor choice. Both traveling to the tomb, Carse gets pushed through a time-traveling void by Penkawr and gets transported back in time, millions of years. I came to really enjoy reading this book, as a space opera, that really stressed how the characters are able to act even when chaos is around them. In the case of the Sea of Kings, the immensity of time is the overall idea. The story rests on the idea that Carse's time is different from the readers as well as how different Carse's time is from Ywain and Rhiannon. I liked how his character developed from being stunned and dazed, understandably so, I think most people would also be overwhelmed, to being able to pull himself together to not only understand what was happening around in but being able to take action in the time he was in. The adaptability of these characters is admirable. In the end, when Ywain is ripped out of her time, she adapted so fast and was just like, "ok, this is my life now" and moved on with Carse. 

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