Protagonist is forced into a less than desirable relationship, but falls in love with their partner. Great tragedy befalls that partner. It's Satan's doing. Main character becomes an incarnation.
Relationship and exposition stuff is tied up about halfway through, then the story focuses on an aspect of Satan's plan...
This sounds REALLY familiar. Like almost identical structure to the last story... and the story before that...
I'm about 45% in, and sadly the character development and writing has not much improved. The setup with Cedric irritated me. I found myself shouting "JUST FUCK HER!"
Hard to buy a 16-year-old that is timid of sex, and refuses to indulge with "the most beautiful woman of her age."
There is not much substance to any of the characters, which is a shame with an opportunity like Fate, where you have three different women sharing a body. Several times through the story the other two aspects of fate seem to fade away and there is simply Niobe. In truth they really only pop up when it's convenient for the plot or to break up the inner monologue/exposition.
I was a little put off at how easily Niobe gives her child away, and later on how easily she settles into being Chronus' concubine. Especially since it was immediately after she was so outraged. She was like "oh... he doesn't know. What a sad man. I guess I'll fuck him after all..."
Also, with Time and Death, there were at least these little neat things here and there, but with fate there is really just the spider/thread thing, and the switching between the aspects. There are really no cool magical items, weird quirks of the job, or tongue-in-cheek cracks at the every-day duties of fate. They don't even seem to have much say in things, or at least there isn't a lot of exposition or elaboration on the overall pattern that Fate gets to weave.
I'm starting to think that as a 16-17 year-old, I really didn't need much depth of personality, and that I didn't have a terribly sophisticated philosophical mind. Perhaps at that age I filled in the personality of the characters and was creating my own story with it as a guide, and the bare premise was far enough from reality to give the illusion that these books were better than they really are?
Relationship and exposition stuff is tied up about halfway through, then the story focuses on an aspect of Satan's plan...
This sounds REALLY familiar. Like almost identical structure to the last story... and the story before that...
I'm about 45% in, and sadly the character development and writing has not much improved. The setup with Cedric irritated me. I found myself shouting "JUST FUCK HER!"
Hard to buy a 16-year-old that is timid of sex, and refuses to indulge with "the most beautiful woman of her age."
There is not much substance to any of the characters, which is a shame with an opportunity like Fate, where you have three different women sharing a body. Several times through the story the other two aspects of fate seem to fade away and there is simply Niobe. In truth they really only pop up when it's convenient for the plot or to break up the inner monologue/exposition.
I was a little put off at how easily Niobe gives her child away, and later on how easily she settles into being Chronus' concubine. Especially since it was immediately after she was so outraged. She was like "oh... he doesn't know. What a sad man. I guess I'll fuck him after all..."
Also, with Time and Death, there were at least these little neat things here and there, but with fate there is really just the spider/thread thing, and the switching between the aspects. There are really no cool magical items, weird quirks of the job, or tongue-in-cheek cracks at the every-day duties of fate. They don't even seem to have much say in things, or at least there isn't a lot of exposition or elaboration on the overall pattern that Fate gets to weave.
I'm starting to think that as a 16-17 year-old, I really didn't need much depth of personality, and that I didn't have a terribly sophisticated philosophical mind. Perhaps at that age I filled in the personality of the characters and was creating my own story with it as a guide, and the bare premise was far enough from reality to give the illusion that these books were better than they really are?