Fool's Fate: the Conspiracy
In an effort to recover from the mind-numbing conclusion of the Farseer saga, I just spent the last two hours reading other people's reviews in order to make sure I have not, in fact, lost my mind. The ending perspective looked like this:
1 - OMG, Hobb cookie-cuttered an ending!
2 - Why would she DO that?!?
3 - I seriously think the publishing company made her do that.
As many of Amazon's reviewers for the last book noted.... the ending that happened is NOT the ending foreshadowed. Which would be cool, if the actual ending did not SUCK. The thing is, I don't know if she could have realistically written the foreshadowed ending because, heterosexually speaking, the relationship between the main protagonist and the coolest sub-protagonist had nowhere to go, because the main char was painfully het.
Okay, so the foreshadowed ending was the write-off.
But was it REALLY necessary to kill that one guy and hook main character up with some chick he knew 16 years ago who now has seven kids with newly-dead guy?
I think author got stuck because she had promised he'd end up in a relationship, but the one she intended didn't fit the story, so she had to shit out a decent one instead.
That, or her editor spanked her because she would have gotten to write m/m, and mainstreamers generally don't do that.
Oh well.
1 - OMG, Hobb cookie-cuttered an ending!
2 - Why would she DO that?!?
3 - I seriously think the publishing company made her do that.
As many of Amazon's reviewers for the last book noted.... the ending that happened is NOT the ending foreshadowed. Which would be cool, if the actual ending did not SUCK. The thing is, I don't know if she could have realistically written the foreshadowed ending because, heterosexually speaking, the relationship between the main protagonist and the coolest sub-protagonist had nowhere to go, because the main char was painfully het.
Okay, so the foreshadowed ending was the write-off.
But was it REALLY necessary to kill that one guy and hook main character up with some chick he knew 16 years ago who now has seven kids with newly-dead guy?
I think author got stuck because she had promised he'd end up in a relationship, but the one she intended didn't fit the story, so she had to shit out a decent one instead.
That, or her editor spanked her because she would have gotten to write m/m, and mainstreamers generally don't do that.
Oh well.