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Patrick
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I started off loving this book. The writing and storytelling are amazingly good.
Then it went into an extended flashback, and I was pissed. I didn't want to hear about these people and this different setting four hundred years ago. I wanted to follow the main character. She's the one I'm invested in.
(And yes, I'm aware of the irony in me complaining about a book having a long flashback.)
— May 02, 2017 03:21PM
Then it went into an extended flashback, and I was pissed. I didn't want to hear about these people and this different setting four hundred years ago. I wanted to follow the main character. She's the one I'm invested in.
(And yes, I'm aware of the irony in me complaining about a book having a long flashback.)
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Patrick
is on page 90 of 454
After getting over my initial difficulties with the Flashback and POV changes, I'm back into loving the book.
Kerr has a wonderful way of portraying a world. And the setting of this book is so much more realistic that so many of the fantasy books I've read. Especially given that it was written 30 years ago. It must have been groundbreaking. Small wonder that this book is a classic.
— May 05, 2017 11:52AM
Kerr has a wonderful way of portraying a world. And the setting of this book is so much more realistic that so many of the fantasy books I've read. Especially given that it was written 30 years ago. It must have been groundbreaking. Small wonder that this book is a classic.
Patrick
is on page 70 of 454
What threw me (In addition to the flashback itself) was the fact that there was a POV shift *in* the flashback. And I'll be honest, I got confused.
That said, I was reading in little snippets. Distracted. Busy. In a better time, I just would've rolled with it.
But the fact remains, I got confused. lost. Less interested.
This is the hell of being a writer. You never know how your reader is going to read.
— May 03, 2017 11:08AM
That said, I was reading in little snippets. Distracted. Busy. In a better time, I just would've rolled with it.
But the fact remains, I got confused. lost. Less interested.
This is the hell of being a writer. You never know how your reader is going to read.
Patrick
is on page 40 of 454
It sounds awful, but it's been a long time since I picked up a book just for fun.
I'm enjoying this one so much. And I'm so impressed with it. It's as good as anything written today, and better than so many things that I've read recently.
— Apr 25, 2017 08:12PM
I'm enjoying this one so much. And I'm so impressed with it. It's as good as anything written today, and better than so many things that I've read recently.
