This series is a prime example of being way too much longer than it needed to be or should be.
Author needs toe cross-cut so often to follow all these characters and subplots, that the reader can't get comfortable anywhere in the book, and then reader realizes that Nothing is happening, not really, just lots of cross-cutting and lines of narrative, but they do not go anywhere, and if the author had just had the self-discipline to cut ruthlessly this o, so beloved new scene demanding yet another new character way back at in, oh say volume one or two, author would really be in the middle of finishing volume three, and the series as a whole, and everyone would be happier!
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Date: 2007-04-21 04:54 pm (UTC)This series is a prime example of being way too much longer than it needed to be or should be.
Author needs toe cross-cut so often to follow all these characters and subplots, that the reader can't get comfortable anywhere in the book, and then reader realizes that Nothing is happening, not really, just lots of cross-cutting and lines of narrative, but they do not go anywhere, and if the author had just had the self-discipline to cut ruthlessly this o, so beloved new scene demanding yet another new character way back at in, oh say volume one or two, author would really be in the middle of finishing volume three, and the series as a whole, and everyone would be happier!