Reading Wizard of the Pigeons (Spoilers)

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Farseer, did you order a copy too? Just askin'...

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We get a series of encounters between Wizard and a woman named Lynda. Her first appearance is actually quite early in the novel, as a waitress who has to deal with her agressive ex-boyfriend Booth. Lynda buys Wizard food and drinks. Cassie appears in a few different forms to warn Wizard. Wizard is attacked by Booth, but manages to win and is then followed to his den by Lynda. After he breaks yet another rule (celibacy, of course), we get flashbacks to Wizard's past as a traumatized Vietnam veteran.

If I have to name a problem with this novel, it's that it feels so aimless at times. Early on, Mir is set up as a great threat, but in the last one hundred pages, he has barely been even mentioned. And what role do the three boys from the flashback play?

Cassie has warned Wizard that he has to atone for a sin, but not neccesarily his own. Is Mir connected to this sin, and is this sin connected to Vietnam? And how? There's something there I haven't figured out yet.