Talk:Penelope Illeniel/@comment-209.59.242.35-20200422000204/@comment-40135712-20201101075128

Yeah, I'm just rejecting that as canon.

Penny is a deliriously happy and pregnant newly-wed. (She's not happy at precisely this moment, but her unhappiness has nothing to do with Mordecai.)

Dorian is honest to a fault, and is devoted to Rose. I forget if he was a newlywed, but it was either that, or very late in their pre-marriage relationship.

Everything about the conversation between Mordecai and Penny about it led me to the conclusion it had not happened. Penny rejects even the possibility of the idea, telling Mort that he should never doubt her.

The following Mageborn books play out as though there had never been any infidelity. Dorian would have been a guilty wreck, given his personality, and Penny should have had at least little hints of guilt. Series 2 and 3 don't delve much into the relationship between Mordecai and Penny. Series 4 references the situation a couple of times, then slaps you with it as completely different than it was represented in series 1.

The author screwed up here. He completely failed to foreshadow this revelation when it very much needed to be foreshadowed in Mageborn.

I've now finished all of the books. I stand by my statements. I've noticed other inconsistencies as well. I can't name most of them off the top of my head, but I recall Rose being described as tall in the first book, but she's repeatedly described as "not a tall woman" in the second to last book.

Oh, I remembered another: There was a lord that was exiled, who was later referenced as executed, even though that never happened.