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Skyfall (Saga of the Skolian Empire, #9)
by Catherine Asaro (Goodreads Author)
by Catherine Asaro (Goodreads Author)
This was kind if an old fashioned book, the lead characters were a bit too "Mary Sue" for my tastes personality-wise, but the reason I read it was that i heard the rest of this series by the author was a really great sic-fi epic, and from how she set up the world in this book so I'm definitely gonna give her series a try. It was also nice to see a romance in a sci-fi setting not make me cringe, so that was enjoyable.
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Sep 26, 2010 04:06pm
This one isn't as good as some of the others in the series. The books with Roca's daughter Soz are more interesting (or at least I thought so). She's a less passive character than her mother, who was a bit too "perfect in every way" for my taste. My favorite so far, though, is The Last Hawk which is about Kelric and deals with gender role reversal. It had a very interesting matriarchal culture whose politics revolved around a complex game. It's one of my favorite books.
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I also think the books with Soz are more interesting. (Primary Inversion is my favorite book of the series.)
Mary Sues are characters the author inserts that are blank/there to fill the shoes of the author. Bella/Twilight is a good example >.>. They are often how the author would like to be if they were inside their own book.
Jess wrote: "Mary Sues are characters the author inserts that are blank/there to fill the shoes of the author. Bella/Twilight is a good example >.>. They are often how the author would like to be if they were i..."Oh cool, thanks for the explanation, I didn't know such a name existed for characters like that. I hate when authors do that - it's so contrived and uncreative when done poorly. However, it can be done well, such as in Mark Twain's case when he wrote Tom Sawyer, for example.
