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Flesh and Spirit (Lighthouse, #1)
by Carol Berg (Goodreads Author)
by Carol Berg (Goodreads Author)
I hate stories where the author plops you right into the middle of a world with made up words, made up religion, made up city/region/states?? and made up political issues that you have NO CLUE about whatsoever and just expects you to read along merrily without any idea about any of it.
Seriously, how about a map? Or a glossary if you insist on making up words. Or hell, how about a little backstory and explain things a tiny smidge. I'm like 100 pages in and I only have the vaguest concept about three brother princes who are battling for the crown. They're all lords of some named area but how big those areas are or their proximity to another...? No freakin' clue.
And seriously, just use the damned word, "mile" for distance. Making up some damned random word for an unnamed amount of distance that you're supposed to assume is most likely but in no way guaranteed to be about a mile is just annoying.
I really don't even want to keep reading. I'm just annoyed so far.
Seriously, how about a map? Or a glossary if you insist on making up words. Or hell, how about a little backstory and explain things a tiny smidge. I'm like 100 pages in and I only have the vaguest concept about three brother princes who are battling for the crown. They're all lords of some named area but how big those areas are or their proximity to another...? No freakin' clue.
And seriously, just use the damned word, "mile" for distance. Making up some damned random word for an unnamed amount of distance that you're supposed to assume is most likely but in no way guaranteed to be about a mile is just annoying.
I really don't even want to keep reading. I'm just annoyed so far.
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Sep 28, 2011 05:25pm
Yeah, I do not know a lot of these words. I underlined them. If she made them up shouldn't they be in italics? Plus, there's also Wraethlu to consider. Constantine has a glossary.
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Synesthesia wrote: "Yeah, I do not know a lot of these words. I underlined them. If she made them up shouldn't they be in italics? Plus, there's also Wraethlu to consider. Constantine has a glossary."Exactly. If you make up your own word, at least put it in italics to indicate it's a "foreign" language.
