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I'm in need of a place to rant.
I'm, I guess you could say, pretty active on the social book networking site, goodreads.com. January 1, 2012, I made it my goal to read 100 books by the end of the year (or the end of the world, whichever one comes first.). Thanks to this site, I'm more than capable of keeping track of not only the books I read, but what month I started them, completed them, the amount of pages I've read througout the year...I love it, honestly.
I should probably state that when it comes to books, I don't hold myself above others. People are going to have different opinions, but I sort of feel like she missed a lot of the point on one book review.
Here's the things she didn't like about the book.
--The girl is much too trusting and had to be rescued over and over, to the point that you want to scream at her. She also isn't all that compelling of a protagonist, and is also occasionally very rude and rather ungrateful. while i'd love to agree with her on this point, but I can't. Sure, it's great to read about a girl in literature that can kick ass and be, above all things super awesome chick. The thing is, if you look at how she was raised/where she was raised/the things she wasn't surrounded by growing up, its understandable that she'd make stupid decisions and choices that may end in the way of her having to get rescued. I kind of feel like she had to trust Perry because she really had nobody else.
--The names. Aria (GUESS WHAT SHE DOES), Paisley, Lumina, Aria, Echo, Peregrine (view spoiler)
--Interchangeable secondary characters what she had to say in the 'view spoiler' option was a complaint about the 'bird names' - lumina, peregrine... - Some of the characters I can't give an excuse for, but Peregrine (Perry)I can. He's got some big ass Falcon tattoo on his back!!!! I'm sure there's a much bigger reason for it that we're unaware of, since it's a series.
--Weird things that are mentioned in passing but never really explained. Soren's underwater birthday party, no stains, not getting hurt in the Realms' virtual reality type situation, blood lords, the Tides' superhuman senses, etc. i was never honestly interested in the 'realms'. For me, any continuous involvement with it was more of a tedious 'oh my god, can we get on with the story' moment for me. I preferred the outside world to the inside. I don't think it was important. The important part was Aria's dependency on it.
--Rather uninspired "she did this, he did that" type of writing. Everything is explained as an afterthought and random snippets suddenly dropped, there’s no gradual lead in for it in the narrative. i think my biggest mistakes as a writer is giving up all the details the moment something happens. One of my favorite parts about this books was the fact that everything wasn't explained immediately. There was enough story that it wasn't necessary.
--Some writing choices that didn't quite work as well as the examples in the "like" section, such as "“sweaty seaweed" or “his nephew’s temper had grown dark and damp.” Those just don't make sense to me. There were also some awkward sentences, such as "Perry woke sweated to his clothes."
the book itself had it's awkward moments, but it seems normal, considering the characters weren't meant to be comfortable with each other, especially on Aria's part.
Yeah, just my opinions, but...
I'm, I guess you could say, pretty active on the social book networking site, goodreads.com. January 1, 2012, I made it my goal to read 100 books by the end of the year (or the end of the world, whichever one comes first.). Thanks to this site, I'm more than capable of keeping track of not only the books I read, but what month I started them, completed them, the amount of pages I've read througout the year...I love it, honestly.
I should probably state that when it comes to books, I don't hold myself above others. People are going to have different opinions, but I sort of feel like she missed a lot of the point on one book review.
Here's the things she didn't like about the book.
--The girl is much too trusting and had to be rescued over and over, to the point that you want to scream at her. She also isn't all that compelling of a protagonist, and is also occasionally very rude and rather ungrateful. while i'd love to agree with her on this point, but I can't. Sure, it's great to read about a girl in literature that can kick ass and be, above all things super awesome chick. The thing is, if you look at how she was raised/where she was raised/the things she wasn't surrounded by growing up, its understandable that she'd make stupid decisions and choices that may end in the way of her having to get rescued. I kind of feel like she had to trust Perry because she really had nobody else.
--The names. Aria (GUESS WHAT SHE DOES), Paisley, Lumina, Aria, Echo, Peregrine (view spoiler)
--Interchangeable secondary characters what she had to say in the 'view spoiler' option was a complaint about the 'bird names' - lumina, peregrine... - Some of the characters I can't give an excuse for, but Peregrine (Perry)I can. He's got some big ass Falcon tattoo on his back!!!! I'm sure there's a much bigger reason for it that we're unaware of, since it's a series.
--Weird things that are mentioned in passing but never really explained. Soren's underwater birthday party, no stains, not getting hurt in the Realms' virtual reality type situation, blood lords, the Tides' superhuman senses, etc. i was never honestly interested in the 'realms'. For me, any continuous involvement with it was more of a tedious 'oh my god, can we get on with the story' moment for me. I preferred the outside world to the inside. I don't think it was important. The important part was Aria's dependency on it.
--Rather uninspired "she did this, he did that" type of writing. Everything is explained as an afterthought and random snippets suddenly dropped, there’s no gradual lead in for it in the narrative. i think my biggest mistakes as a writer is giving up all the details the moment something happens. One of my favorite parts about this books was the fact that everything wasn't explained immediately. There was enough story that it wasn't necessary.
--Some writing choices that didn't quite work as well as the examples in the "like" section, such as "“sweaty seaweed" or “his nephew’s temper had grown dark and damp.” Those just don't make sense to me. There were also some awkward sentences, such as "Perry woke sweated to his clothes."
the book itself had it's awkward moments, but it seems normal, considering the characters weren't meant to be comfortable with each other, especially on Aria's part.
Yeah, just my opinions, but...