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Three parts dead by max gladstone6/4/2023 Ruin of Angels basically starts a new series in the world, so the author didn't use the numeric titling setup. The order of events in-universe is Last First Snow, Two Serpents Rise, Three Parts Dead, Four Roads Cross, then Full Fathom Five. And Tara is, on some level, suspicious of the surrender of self involved in worship.Īs a small addendum, before getting Max's answer, I expected the "three" part to be possible arbitrary because the theme of the naming of the first six books is that the number indicates where the book lies in the series chronology. Thematically the short version is that the murder and reconciliation plot is driven by a fear of love, of a mystical sort-Gerhardt's fear of Kos and Seril's love, his inability to trust Kos, etc. Which tickles me because Kos is not as dead as he first appears It struck me as appropriate for thematic reasons, which might take more time than I now have to elaborate onīut "three parts dead" means "three out of four parts dead" e.g. The title springs from a Bertrand Russell quote, which I first stumbled upon out of context, but which is from his book Marriage and Morals: To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. I sent a message to Max Gladstone via Reddit, and he replied:
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