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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9682545" data-attributes="member: 6671663">I will have more to say about this book later, but the end of chapter 54 and alll of chapter 55 of Christopher Ruocchio’s The Demon In White achieves Tolkien’s eucatastrophe in a way I haven’t encountered in a good while. As Tolkien defines it in “On Fairy-Stories”, the eucatastrophe is the joy that comes unsought, un-hoped for, as poignant as tragic collapse but its opposite. In Tolkien’s own work, the fall of Barad-Dur and the arrival of the Eagles are examples. Well, something happens in the middle of of The Demon In White that made me cry some tears of delight. This morning, I shed some tears of misery over aspects of Mom’s condition and care, and tears of frustration and anger over aspects of the crisis in Los Angeles. This chapter washed it all away for a little while, and even after the immediate impact faded, it’s left me feeling better. No, I’m absolutely not going to tell you what it is. You can shoot me a private message if you need to know, and let me know if you’ve read the first book, Empire Of Silence, or not. If you haven’t, it won’t make sense anyway. Just…wow. What a delight.</blockquote>