The Calling Read-along: Chapter 7

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(U.S. Holiday weekend completely screwed me up. Here's the post for now, synopses to come later)

Comments

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Kinda a big shift for Fiona there. It would have felt better is she hadn't been so actively hostile earlier on. It could have worked with her still being hostile, just less aggressive about it. She has issues with the King being there, but isn't about to set him on fire while he sleeps. I kinda mentally edit out her initial attitude when I look back on the book, which really isn't a good thing.

I've read some criticisms (not just here, I actually read some 'real' reviews so I had some background) that this novel reads like a section of the game, individual bits of combat, broken up by small rests and sarcastic banter. I sneer at these people with pretension that comes only from the sure knowledge of being better.

It reads like a Dungeons and Dragons game! Which, to my mind, is a good thing. I like DnD!

Also I really had trouble with the scale of the previous book. Massive armies, the fate of a nation, combat not on an individual level but in formation? It just feels to me that Gaider has a better handle of the tighter focus. A limited cast of characters, their interactions as they progress on the quest.