Mel will probably disagree with me, but I found the Boone family in The Drowned Vault to be rather cliched and irritating. Nope, I agree with you on that one. They're from a character type I tend to like but they were cardboard-like (more so than in the previous book, I guess?) and thus meh. Drowned Vault had the same flaw as When the Stars threw Down their Spears: there was too much going on and too little concrete explanation for a lot of it.
*still needs to read a Brandon Sanderson book*
I read Clara's War too. It was riveting, though I wouldn't say it left me reeling... just often rather confused as to why certain characters were motivated. Fiction has left me expecting more clear cut 'whys' than she had to offer. :*>
Huh, really. I'm glad to know we share the same opinion on the matter. ;)) (...yeah, I think part of it was meeting the parents? I wasn't overly fond of them all in the first one, but it was worse in the second.) I can see that, though I liked Drowned Vault more than When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears; at least the former has more books to allow for further explanation!
Well, you'll have to let me know what you think when/if you read any of his books. :)
I suppose reeling in Clara's War had to do with just everything they went through, the courage shown, and then the remarkable ending. Heh, I guess all the non-fiction this year has paid off since I don't remember being that confused beyond just thinking that people were people
( ... )
(I don't remember the Boons doing much in the first book, except for cheering the main characters on in their difficult coursework... and maybe flying a plane. Which is funny, because I think I retained a better overall picture of Dragon's Tooth than Drowned Vault. But yeah, I do remember eyeing the book a little sideways when the Boone parental units showed up in DV. ;)) )
...I wonder if it's possible to queue books at the library so they'll show up in a certain month... because then I could order them while I'm thinking about it and not end up with eleventy-billion books all at once. :p
(They flew a plane and also trained Cyrus and Antigone some, I think; in general, though, they were the super-talented, super-pretty people with no flaws. Heh, yeah, it just got worse when Mr. and Mrs. Boone showed up. ;)) )
Ummm...I don't think so? But if you figure it out, let me know! I'd love to do that. ;)) (And it is a great idea, and should be doable because of that...)
(...I have a tendency to gloss over descriptions of people as super pretty and go, "Oh, they had two eyes, a nose and a mouth and no scaring... that's nice.")
I'm trying the 'Suspend until' button on two holds. In theory they ought to show up in the later half of February. *hopes*
So I found all three books on the library shelf and decided to marathon read them. ;)) DV makes more sense the second time through but I don't think it's my favourite... The Boone parents are still meh. Maybe it's because she's a marshmallow to his granite and to fit the established pattern she ought to be a shieldmaiden of the mold from which Eowyn wanted to be cast.
Oooh. :D Sounds fun. ;)) No, well, like I said, DV has some beautiful bits, but as for the story itself, not my favourite; or, rather, I like it for all the bits, where the sum of the bits is maybe greater than the whole. Or something. :P Huh, I hadn't thought about it that way. That could be part of it, yes! But the dad rubbed me the wrong way too...
*still needs to read a Brandon Sanderson book*
I read Clara's War too. It was riveting, though I wouldn't say it left me reeling... just often rather confused as to why certain characters were motivated. Fiction has left me expecting more clear cut 'whys' than she had to offer. :*>
*happily scoops titles from the non-fic reading*
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Well, you'll have to let me know what you think when/if you read any of his books. :)
I suppose reeling in Clara's War had to do with just everything they went through, the courage shown, and then the remarkable ending. Heh, I guess all the non-fiction this year has paid off since I don't remember being that confused beyond just thinking that people were people ( ... )
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...I wonder if it's possible to queue books at the library so they'll show up in a certain month... because then I could order them while I'm thinking about it and not end up with eleventy-billion books all at once. :p
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Ummm...I don't think so? But if you figure it out, let me know! I'd love to do that. ;)) (And it is a great idea, and should be doable because of that...)
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I'm trying the 'Suspend until' button on two holds. In theory they ought to show up in the later half of February. *hopes*
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Cool! :D Let me know how that works. :)
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Huh, I hadn't thought about it that way. That could be part of it, yes! But the dad rubbed me the wrong way too...
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