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The Book of the Snowstorm – Readthrough/Review Part 4

Framing Story (Scene 9-11)

Still fun, nice linking of the Ties that Bind and Buggy Little Holiday as part of Coloth’s quest and separate from the bibliomancy of Martisa and Callum. Still suspicious of the cloaked figure. Also confirms the Toymaker from Abstract Tales and the Celestial Toymaker’s names are connected which is fun.

The Ties that Bind

Nice short little piece, not familiar with the setting but found the mismatch of real modern culture and fictional future culture fascinating. Violet and Mimi seem sweet too. Not very long but it also didn’t really need to be to accomplish what it was trying to accomplish.

A Buggy Little Holiday

Notably, this is one of James Wylder’s contributions to the anthology. Fun piece, Cleo was awkward in an endearing way and Havoc was trying really hard to act all serious and that dynamic was fun. Simple plot but it works, though I’m curious what exactly Cleo and Tophie are looking for.

Two Auteurs

And following on with this we have the editor and writer of the framing narration. Aristide Twain.

Oooh boy is this a monster.

Ok, start from the top.

Nightmare Before Christmas imagery in Seventeenth Auteur’s world, at least that’s how I read it.

The Celestial Toymaker is a Time Lord, at least according to this story. One that Auteur knew too. In addition to namedropping The Monk from the Bloodletters as ‘Mortimus’ and a ton of Auteur lore.

So, rundown from what I could tell.

Twelfth Auteur -> Goddess of Gendar

Thirteenth Auteur -> Various, including Noel/Santa, Astrolabus and others

Fourteenth Auteur -> Godfather Auteur

Fifteenth Auteur -> The Remembered Auteur

Sixteenth Auteur -> The Retconned Auteur

Seventeenth Auteur -> The Monochrome Auteur, the one devoured by the Bookwyrm

The Goddess bifurcated in the story, becoming like the Fourteenth Doctor… I think. Noel/Santa also appeared on the planet as a Thirteenth Auteur, only both Twelve and Thirteen agreed to never become Auteur, and also Seventeen excising Twelve from his past and denying the existence of Noel/Thirteen.

It’s all a bit confusing but in a fun way, also like the Goddess poking fun at Monochrome for all the self inserts and retconning he’s tried to do.

Loved the use of the mindbending match though, between Forgotten Lives 3 and Two Auteurs I've been loving how mindbending's being depicted in recent releases

Gonna have to ask a lot of questions about what exactly happened in this story, but needless to say I greatly enjoyed it.

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