[Nate]

I'm reading The Sending, which is the recently released sixth (and penultimate) book of Isobelle Carmody's Obernewtyn Chronicles.

It's been a massive relief to find that the Mary Sue terribleness of book #5 was just a glitch and this one is better than ever. I'm about halfway through and thus far the book has been a rollercoaster ride of competing emotions, raised plot threads and me trying to remember who half of these characters are. The latter is what happens when I read (and occassionally re-read) a series over the course of about 16 years. Then, suddenly the plot takes a sudden swerve in to another direction and it looks like all the dangling questions aren't going to be resolved. It could easily have been frustrating but, thus far at least, it's taking me along with it.