What happened to the white witch?
We are talking about the final volume of the series, so it would be good to start with a summary. As you have noticed, I received the first three volumes of the hexalogy with undisguised enthusiasm. I am like that when someone writes lightly about feminism and tolerance, even without going into details. I love strong heroines who always win, especially with a crowd of friends to help. It is best if they fight for the just cause of love for their neighbor, also the strangest one. Up to the Winner Takes It all was the story of Dora Wilk.
The fourth volume on the one hand developed an important theme of the wolf family, on the other it introduced more darkness and violence than I expected. It was there that Dora and the pack switched from chewing gum to kicking ass, and they didn’t find time to visit the kiosk and replenish their sweets. In the previous two volumes I missed a deeper reflection on such an unpleasant turn in the life of a witch, although I admit that the subject started to appear during the torture of the Viper in Dora Wilk’s Exorcisms. Everything, however, was kept under the slogan “I have no choice”, which I personally cannot stand. Maybe I am an idealist, but aren’t we, among other things, in order to practice peaceful solutions? A little to comfort souls, and at the same time with educational potential?
There are no innocents in the war is not an inconsistent ending to the series about Dora Wilk, but not entirely satisfactory for me – readers and reviewers. There was a bit too much going on here, especially evil and darkness, which was not fully thought out by the heroes, and perhaps by Jadowska herself. As a result, the finale gives a lot of action, and less of what I value the beginning of the hexalogy – focus on diversity, tolerance. Dora doesn’t try so hard to find a place for everyone in her Thornie, now she divides the world into enemies and friends.
This war will be terrible
Is it too late for Dora Wilk? In In War There Are No Innocent Witches will have a really hard time. This time, she will be fine herself, but she will see the criminal underworld and the pathologies of the wolf world that would treat anyone to PTSD. This time, from the political solutions, the heroine will decide on something between a manhunt and a carpet raid. How did this happen? She turned to forceful solutions only in this volume. The most valuable person was well taken away, without whom he would simply go mad. Shamans and pizza will help just a little this time.
The previous volume ended with disturbing dreams about a hunted, hunted wolf. It was the beginning of the war, the chase, the trees and the hunted turned out to be just as real. Varg of the Triple Alliance Dora herd disappears, and all signs indicate that the Thorn herd is to blame. One may wonder to what extent the figure of this nervous, testosterone-filled guy is needed in the hexalogy (I’m not a fan of this hero), but it certainly gives an excuse to sweep away in an alternative Toruń. Dora’s well-arranged world will turn out to be a straw house, on which it is enough to bend and blow it properly, so that the little pigs will be left without a roof.
I will get annoyed again that the witch doesn’t think too much about her life. Fortunately, this time she will admit that something went wrong, since she more often thinks with horror about what she once did to someone, and not about what he did to her. Apparently she could not afford to look at the current volume from a distance… or that was how her character was to develop. The slightly naive girl has grown into a tough Thorn guardian who knows best what’s good for everyone. Rather right now. You just know, problems always start with innocent disagreements.
It won’t be nice
Over the course of the following volumes, Hexalogy turned towards a dark, sometimes overly serious series. These aren’t Pony Pony . You are right to suggest that it did not look like it from the beginning, but somehow I prefer Jadowska in lighter shades. She made a completely different decision when writing about Nikita – that’s where it starts badly, but the ending is a touching, warm story, even if sad. Most of her stories sparkle with a similar warmth enriched with irony.
Dora returns in The Wild Child of Love, where she is heavily unsaddable. Then, for example , she will appear in Chicken and Salamandra , where you will see her in a completely new role. There are no innocents in the war, it is by no means the last word in her case, it is certainly also encountered in new texts by Jadowska. For now, it has not regained the softness and innocence of the beginning of the hexalogy, to which there is probably no return. I do not know one hundred percent that she has not considered her turn to darker regions, after all, there are a few more stories waiting for me. I would surely like to read about it, because I miss something like that in Na War No Innocentwhere the witch follows the principle of “shoot first, then explore”. In the end, regret will always have time.
