I guess in a way it's good, but mostly it's just really sad that I'm not that bothered that on boards and stuff people are bragging about having finished Shaman's Crossing already. Coz if I'd gotten into this book and then seen other people had finished it and wer eshowing off I'd be pissed off, so this way I'm not. Just disappointed. I wish she'd not used a male protagonist. I wish there wasn't so many ways to compare Nevare (and may I point out there are so many bloody names it's hard to remember that's the main character's name!) to Fitz. There are so many possibilities with fantasy, why did she have to go for something already so easily comparable to Fitz?!
I guess people do get stamped to write just one thing, in their mind they only have this one perception of telling stories or something. Even when the people, places and plot are different, the way the story is told is the same.
It's all so formal and straight-forward. Too fucking straight-forward. What I loved most about the Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies was the intricate plots, like I'd never seen before, so many different things that fit together and made sense, all these people who were different and led different lives that all managed to fit together and bumpalong together. And it was never over the top. And that connection with Fitz right from the start, reasons for what he did. Nevare is so formal and unfeeling, I'm just disinterested in him. I'm sure he's lovely, he's just bloody boring. I don't look at this and see 10 years of improvement in writing. And that's sad.
And I'm only just practically up to chapter six! I judge too quickly :/
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