The middle is the most crucial part of most stories. The middle of a story, the middle of a chess game, and the story in its entirety is an elaborate chess game. It is an interesting play on definitions. A space that often blends into both the opening and the endgame where there is not a sharply seen divide. The term middlegame refers to space between the opening and endgame in chess. Middlegame is as it is purported to be, it is a middle, the midway, the equidistant point between the beginning and the end. And I am sitting here twiddling my thumbs and wishing for so much more. I finished dashing through the last thirty pages of Middlegame about 5 mins ago’ I now have the most unsettling feeling of, “Now what? Please story don’t end.” Alas, it did as it would have to. My Thoughts “Words can be whispered bullet-quick when no one’s looking, and words don’t leave blood or bruises behind. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realize it. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Skilled with words, languages come quickly to him. “The universe operates according to several basic principles”
4/5 Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
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