too much lol for one comment XDhamsterwomanDecember 8 2013, 21:48:33 UTC
Woman, if you don't appreciate the hawk story, get out of here. WE are all here for the hawk story. Contrary to the opinion of peasants naysayers, its originality and poignance only GROWS with repetition!!
*weeping with laughter* Yes, of course. Worldbuilding, poorly explained Accords, the central ~mystery~ of are-they-or-aren't-they, Jace's actual personality and wit, the part where the plot makes any sort of sense, all of it is secondary to the linchpin of the series, that narrative jewel, the hawk story. (Also, hee, peasants! XD)
Simon was adorable, even though he didn't match my mental image and sounded a bit too plaintive too much of the time. But of the male characters he was the one most like himself, and I definitely brightened each time he was in a scene. (But I still can't see any chemistry between him and Jace. Jace has no chemistry with anything in the movie, except possibly the piano that one time ;P)
and also because teens don't have the same problems that currently annoy me.
That is actually a good point! On the one hand, I really appreciate it when grown-ups in genre books I read have real-people problems like paying library fines or picking up the dry-cleaning (the main source of charm of the Sookie Stackhouse books for me), or have to balance parenthood and career ("WHERE'S MY COW? ARE YOU MY COW?"), but it is really refreshing to dip back into that simpler time where all of the characters' problems are hypothetical because you are already past that point in life. (Although reading YA as a parent of a soon-to-be-teen does make some of the issues less hypothetical and therefore less fun.)
*weeping with laughter* Yes, of course. Worldbuilding, poorly explained Accords, the central ~mystery~ of are-they-or-aren't-they, Jace's actual personality and wit, the part where the plot makes any sort of sense, all of it is secondary to the linchpin of the series, that narrative jewel, the hawk story. (Also, hee, peasants! XD)
Simon was adorable, even though he didn't match my mental image and sounded a bit too plaintive too much of the time. But of the male characters he was the one most like himself, and I definitely brightened each time he was in a scene. (But I still can't see any chemistry between him and Jace. Jace has no chemistry with anything in the movie, except possibly the piano that one time ;P)
and also because teens don't have the same problems that currently annoy me.
That is actually a good point! On the one hand, I really appreciate it when grown-ups in genre books I read have real-people problems like paying library fines or picking up the dry-cleaning (the main source of charm of the Sookie Stackhouse books for me), or have to balance parenthood and career ("WHERE'S MY COW? ARE YOU MY COW?"), but it is really refreshing to dip back into that simpler time where all of the characters' problems are hypothetical because you are already past that point in life. (Although reading YA as a parent of a soon-to-be-teen does make some of the issues less hypothetical and therefore less fun.)
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