A Change in State of Mind

[adelynne]

Four (just four, no scores) years ago, when I graduated from college, I spent a good three months applying for lab tech jobs, watching Stargate (SG-1 and Atlantis), and Firefly on my sister's computer, and otherwise emphatically vegging in her house. I think I may have been what is known as "burned out" - I still remember the feeling of being

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[hamsterwoman]

I felt that her writing had gotten much tighter and cleaner, for want of a better term. The story had good pacing, it didn't really drag

Yep, that was my impression, too -- that some of the craft issues which had distracted me in Tithe had gotten a lot better by Ironside. I saw all/most of the plot twists a mile away, too (who Roiben would have to fight, Dave's death, the whole Corny/Luis thing (is that even a plot twist?)), except Kaye's solution to the quest.

I think I like TSFT and AGaTB more than Rebel Angels.

Really? I haven't talked to very many folks who've read the trilogy, but the consensus I'd heard so far seemed to be that book 2 was really good and book 3 got really odd (in terms of characterization, maybe? or resolution, or something? I don't remember the details) I do want to read both, though, yeah, Circe's identity is pretty obvious back in AGaTB, and the characters are not particularly bright when it comes to making connections...

Went back and checked the posting dates for the last two chapters -- now I remember why I didn't comment on them -- that was about three days before I was leaving on my 2-month-long sabbatical vacation in Europe. I think I even have some notes from those chapters, somewhere, I just never got around to organizing and posting them. *goes back to look*

[adelynne]

Bray does have a tendency - and I see it mostly with Felicity - to come up with a backstory or plot point that a character really should have, and insert it into the second two books with no foreshadow. It's a shame, and at least in RA there's a specific quirk that directly, to me, contradicts something as written in AGaTB. She does it again with TSFT, but she spends more time building it up and it's much more authentic to me. lareinenoire and I were talking about that last night. :)

Kaye's solution bugs me a bit, because the actual quest was "an untruth" not "a lie." But it works, so I let it slide.

Yay notes!

Is there a way to talk to you in real-time, or is it solely an LJ-comment thing?

[hamsterwoman]

Yeah, I also thought Kaye's solution was kind of a cheat -- but rationalized it as Roiben's entourage letting it slide because they needed her and were willing to let her succeed through a loophole.

I'm on AIM occasionally (hamsterwoman78) and I think I have a GoogleTalk account as well (either hamsterwoman or hamsterwoman78, I can't remember...) but I haven't been on that in ages...