Likes, dislikes
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:00 pm
1. I agree the beginning and end are the strongest.
2. I hate the giants and the haruchai being poorly characterized (exception Stave who has become truly wonderful). In fact brutally speaking I am not sure even why we need the Humbled and the giants in the story so far. They are pretty useless except extra muscle. And I am sick of the we trust linden-we hate linden-shut up you guys dynamic.
3. I love Stave. I like Covenant. I am ok with Linden
4. I found the section with SHE totally a waste of space. We really do NOT need another Huge Horrible Thing here.
5. I found the endless "what will we do with the croyel/jeremiah" took too damn long. And it was repetitive, so we could kill off both Liand and Anele.
6. I did find Linden whining a bit too much. OTOH, geez she's let the Worm loose - I can see why this jars her more confident Zen from the first two books. Still, she has always been a whiner, and I felt she whined less in the first two books of LC. This is an unfortunate regression.
7. Covenant was cool, though he only started kicking butt in the last 150 pages or so.
8. Anand who was a cool character earlier if a bit wussy, dies and really just gets wiped out to little purpose.
9. I like Joan and Roger going to happy places.
10. I thought the Ardent was kind of wasted.
11. Oooh I like Marhtiir. He's not that well developed but I like him.
12. Oooh I dislike Pahni. She's not that well developed and she annoys me. Never found the Anand hookup believeable. For proper bonding see Sunder-Hollian.
So in short: some good pieces, among a lot of dross. Stave is easily the best developed non core character in the Chronicles (although as a result he really isn't "Haruchai" anymore - not that that's a bad thing.
Honestly my feeling is SRD needs a good editor. He always does, since he tends to overwrite. And the Last Chronicles, while its got some awesome stuff (I really LIKED FR), needs a brutal mean inconsiderate editor beating SRD to cutting stuff. This book needed about 100 pages shaved from it.
2. I hate the giants and the haruchai being poorly characterized (exception Stave who has become truly wonderful). In fact brutally speaking I am not sure even why we need the Humbled and the giants in the story so far. They are pretty useless except extra muscle. And I am sick of the we trust linden-we hate linden-shut up you guys dynamic.
3. I love Stave. I like Covenant. I am ok with Linden
4. I found the section with SHE totally a waste of space. We really do NOT need another Huge Horrible Thing here.
5. I found the endless "what will we do with the croyel/jeremiah" took too damn long. And it was repetitive, so we could kill off both Liand and Anele.
6. I did find Linden whining a bit too much. OTOH, geez she's let the Worm loose - I can see why this jars her more confident Zen from the first two books. Still, she has always been a whiner, and I felt she whined less in the first two books of LC. This is an unfortunate regression.
7. Covenant was cool, though he only started kicking butt in the last 150 pages or so.
8. Anand who was a cool character earlier if a bit wussy, dies and really just gets wiped out to little purpose.
9. I like Joan and Roger going to happy places.
10. I thought the Ardent was kind of wasted.
11. Oooh I like Marhtiir. He's not that well developed but I like him.
12. Oooh I dislike Pahni. She's not that well developed and she annoys me. Never found the Anand hookup believeable. For proper bonding see Sunder-Hollian.
So in short: some good pieces, among a lot of dross. Stave is easily the best developed non core character in the Chronicles (although as a result he really isn't "Haruchai" anymore - not that that's a bad thing.
Honestly my feeling is SRD needs a good editor. He always does, since he tends to overwrite. And the Last Chronicles, while its got some awesome stuff (I really LIKED FR), needs a brutal mean inconsiderate editor beating SRD to cutting stuff. This book needed about 100 pages shaved from it.