The Hell Haggis

[island_of_reil]

[I've been having trouble getting LJ entries to cross-post from DW with comments enabled, so I'm posting separately to each journal for now. I've reposted and backdated the previous entry.]

So, okay, I'd already encountered [spoilers]the Collection of Delicious Tears, the Sex Cheese, and the Manseed Harvest. And I knew that an unnatural child-thing was

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[riventhorn]

I know I found The White Road very boring--so boring that I really cannot remember what it was about. I liked the first two books in the series, and then I thought things went downhill from there. The writing worse, the plots duller. Plus, I feel like her universe never jived very well. It always depended too much on characters explaining "how things work" as opposed to allowing the reader to discover it for themselves. I still reread bits from the books that I liked (i.e., the Alec/Seregil stuff), though.

[island_of_reil]

I found the third book very slow. It was mostly a murder mystery with little of the action I'd become used to. Flewelling's writing hits its nadir in that book as well; there aren't even the flashes of descriptive genius, and the dialogue isn't as witty. I did perk up a little bit when they rode out of Sarikali near the end of the book, but things slowed down again after they returned.

The fourth book, for all its faults, wasn't slow-paced. The fifth one's a little slower, but I can cope with it because, at least so far, it's not full of egregious WTF. Also, there's more nature description; it's not Sutcliffian nature porn but there are some striking bits here and there.

I don't perceive that her universe is internally inconsistent, but she most definitely has a problem with telling instead of showing. She could have compromised and used character dialogue to explain things. Not perfect, but better.

[bunn]

I'm not at all tempted to read these books,they can't possibly be as entertaining as your versions :-D

[island_of_reil]

HAHAHAHA.

Well, like I said to halotolerant in the previous thread, the first two books are amazing. The rest are most definitely a matter of taste. But to each her own. :)