yay, stranger! you might be bouncing off the whole... ya nature of it? i mean, especially aligned with inda. and i think the multiple pov (which i love, but i'm a sucker for outside povs on characters i like, basically, so it works for me) might be a holdover from the times when it was a tv series pitch - and idk, i think it allows for a lot of flexibility, and for inviting new characters seamlessly.
(i wonder what you'll think of kerry in the next book).
ross was my favorite (i'm a sucker for this kind of hero), but felicity sure held second place, reveal and all. i'm really interested in how her entire arc will fall out. and agreed on how interesting her parents are - awful in some ways, pointedly not-awful in others, working within the structure anyway.
next book might suit you better, too - there's less exposition and more action, and a GREAT climax. it's my favorite so far.
You know, you're right about the YA thing, quite possibly! While I enjoy YA books in their own right, I've only read for-grownups books from the two authors, so that might be where the feeling of shallowness is coming from. (Although it's not a necessary consequence, of course, as I've liked Pratchett and Gaiman and some other people's books for younger readers just as much as their most grown-up ones
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i love how las anclas deconstructs the idea that post-ap worlds are all anarchy and cannibalism and survival of the fittest, which it isn't - cooperation is, and cooperation is important enough to tempt even people like felicite's parents in. there's a counterpoint to it, of course - there's a lot on voske in the next book - but it WORKS.
It is definitely the only post-apocalyptic worlds with a cozy feel that I've encountered, and that I wanted to spend more time in (though to be fair, the trained rats have a lot to do with that, haha). I really like the community working together aspects (even though, now that I know it was a TV pitch first, I keep thinking about how all those community and cooperation scenes would work in a visual medium, and I think they would work better. But it's there in the worldbuilding, so one feels it in any case.)
An anime would get the creepy crystal trees just right, and I think I was imagining Princess Cloud as some kind of anime-like creature even while I was reading :P
But, yeah, this would be a great TV series -- I think it being a TV show would basically address all of the things that don't quite work for me in book form about the first one. Too bad TV is a lot harder to go the self-pub route for... :(
(i wonder what you'll think of kerry in the next book).
ross was my favorite (i'm a sucker for this kind of hero), but felicity sure held second place, reveal and all. i'm really interested in how her entire arc will fall out. and agreed on how interesting her parents are - awful in some ways, pointedly not-awful in others, working within the structure anyway.
next book might suit you better, too - there's less exposition and more action, and a GREAT climax. it's my favorite so far.
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But, yeah, this would be a great TV series -- I think it being a TV show would basically address all of the things that don't quite work for me in book form about the first one. Too bad TV is a lot harder to go the self-pub route for... :(
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