And it was great that Kel tried things out, but it's not like a driving force and it's not like she has to have a partner.
YES \o/ I was so ready to be irritated by the 'now she's found her boy and we can wrap a little bow on her story and call it over' pattern that when this series didn't go that way and actually got into the difficulties of managing a refugee camp and how class plays into that, I about fell off my chair. I also kind of liked how Neal's story went and I loved . . . Yuki, was it? The *cough* Yamani girl he ends up with. And the way they wrote her friendships throughout the series was really awesome ^^
As for the Alanna series, I reread the first book and parts of the second and fourth books occasionally, but I tend to prefer the other Tortall series which I will read in their entirety at least once a year.
Hmm . . . the circle books didn't grab me as much as the Tortall books, but I still like them. The thing that really irritated me about the second series of Circle books is that each was essentially the same plot--find another magic user who needs guidance, solve serial murders, done. It seemed a little implausible to me, I guess. What's interesting about the last two in that series is that she's playing with time--we know terrible things have happened in the meantime, but we only get fleeting references to it, with the implicit promise of books later. I do like how this world has also gotten more politically and socially complicated, but I'm not sure where it's heading.
And the Beka Cooper books . . . for the most part I'm enjoying it, though I remember being really irritated with the first chapter and the kind of juvenile playing about with fonts. (and the unnecessarily huge font to make the book seem bigger and to charge more for it :P) I also see no reason why she has to be George's ancestor, which seems a bit pat. But hey, I'm a sucker for these things and, like I said in my post, pretty much put life on hold when they come out.
I haven't read Bonk yet, but may pick it up in a likely insane shopping spree at Borders tomorrow (sadly, very few independent bookstores in our are). Borders sent me a 25% off entire purchase coupon, and the Boy and I are considering some serious badness.
I need to reread Spindle's End, because I'm having trouble remembering it ^^" But Deerskin was pretty awesome, at least to me ^^
Book!flails pretty much make my day and give me the strength to contemplate more GRE class prep, which I hope to finish this evening :P
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Date: 2009-06-13 09:51 pm (UTC)YES \o/ I was so ready to be irritated by the 'now she's found her boy and we can wrap a little bow on her story and call it over' pattern that when this series didn't go that way and actually got into the difficulties of managing a refugee camp and how class plays into that, I about fell off my chair. I also kind of liked how Neal's story went and I loved . . . Yuki, was it? The *cough* Yamani girl he ends up with. And the way they wrote her friendships throughout the series was really awesome ^^
As for the Alanna series, I reread the first book and parts of the second and fourth books occasionally, but I tend to prefer the other Tortall series which I will read in their entirety at least once a year.
Hmm . . . the circle books didn't grab me as much as the Tortall books, but I still like them. The thing that really irritated me about the second series of Circle books is that each was essentially the same plot--find another magic user who needs guidance, solve serial murders, done. It seemed a little implausible to me, I guess. What's interesting about the last two in that series is that she's playing with time--we know terrible things have happened in the meantime, but we only get fleeting references to it, with the implicit promise of books later. I do like how this world has also gotten more politically and socially complicated, but I'm not sure where it's heading.
And the Beka Cooper books . . . for the most part I'm enjoying it, though I remember being really irritated with the first chapter and the kind of juvenile playing about with fonts. (and the unnecessarily huge font to make the book seem bigger and to charge more for it :P) I also see no reason why she has to be George's ancestor, which seems a bit pat. But hey, I'm a sucker for these things and, like I said in my post, pretty much put life on hold when they come out.
I haven't read Bonk yet, but may pick it up in a likely insane shopping spree at Borders tomorrow (sadly, very few independent bookstores in our are). Borders sent me a 25% off entire purchase coupon, and the Boy and I are considering some serious badness.
I need to reread Spindle's End, because I'm having trouble remembering it ^^" But Deerskin was pretty awesome, at least to me ^^
Book!flails pretty much make my day and give me the strength to contemplate more GRE class prep, which I hope to finish this evening :P
*waves*