Ha! Burn. She's only original and "creative" when it comes to putting in completely out of nowhere batshit insanity that doesn't remotely fit the setting, so I'm not calling it a good thing! The freaking Statue of Liberty even shows up at one point.

SCSF: I did know that one! And yes, Douglass certainly did like her wild stuff, though I am more tolerant of that beyond this trilogy, presumably because it does not try to be generic fantasy and quite out-there simultaneously.

I mean the more you think about it the more comical it gets.

And they did not even make it themselves! There is the Mother, but I do not even know if she is supposed to be Avar or what she even is.

It gets hand-waved later on with a line that goes something like "she wondered why she didn't look like him at all" and then it's never mentioned again.

But of course...

She might as well have, because after the pure horror that is the end of book two she just... gets over it.

That is about what I expected to occur, but is still in very poor taste.