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elentarien's review against another edition
3.0
**Spoilers Ahead** It's a review, what can I say?
I will say this was an interesting read. I did not get too 'bored' or find myself refusing to pick up the book to continue. I rather liked most of the characters - though it took at least half the book and frequent flipping to the character list to sort out who was who, but it was not a chore to read about these characters, even if I wasn't entirely sure who they were. Most of them were clarified with last names for the first while, so it was confusing, but not stallingly so. The over all plot(s) were interesting and I did find myself somewhat pulled into this family's lives wanting to know what was going on.
That being said. . .it really is the final 'nail' in my opinion that I really do NOT enjoy this style of story. Too many characters to really keep track of, LOTS of flipping back and forth between them, so you never really get time to be in anyone's head -and it's hard to really get to know or get to care about any of them - and so much time is covered, you never really become a part of any of their lives.
The over all story arc is interesting - but we flip back and forth so quickly, that you just start getting 'into' something before we're suddenly switched again. No where do we really SEE any of the action. The scene cuts are almost just before things 'get interesting' or cutting in just after, so we 'hear' about what happened, but are never SHOWN what happens. (This keeps reoccuring in book 2 as well. And, I'm assuming book 3 which I am just starting now.) In many ways this begins to get really frustrating so you don't really care if you care - even if the family is somewhat interesting.
We'll see how things progress in the rest of the trilogy. But as it's looking, this was a passingly interesting read, but the books will hardly land on my 'favourites' shelf or be read a second time. :P
I will say this was an interesting read. I did not get too 'bored' or find myself refusing to pick up the book to continue. I rather liked most of the characters - though it took at least half the book and frequent flipping to the character list to sort out who was who, but it was not a chore to read about these characters, even if I wasn't entirely sure who they were. Most of them were clarified with last names for the first while, so it was confusing, but not stallingly so. The over all plot(s) were interesting and I did find myself somewhat pulled into this family's lives wanting to know what was going on.
That being said. . .it really is the final 'nail' in my opinion that I really do NOT enjoy this style of story. Too many characters to really keep track of, LOTS of flipping back and forth between them, so you never really get time to be in anyone's head -and it's hard to really get to know or get to care about any of them - and so much time is covered, you never really become a part of any of their lives.
The over all story arc is interesting - but we flip back and forth so quickly, that you just start getting 'into' something before we're suddenly switched again. No where do we really SEE any of the action. The scene cuts are almost just before things 'get interesting' or cutting in just after, so we 'hear' about what happened, but are never SHOWN what happens. (This keeps reoccuring in book 2 as well. And, I'm assuming book 3 which I am just starting now.) In many ways this begins to get really frustrating so you don't really care if you care - even if the family is somewhat interesting.
We'll see how things progress in the rest of the trilogy. But as it's looking, this was a passingly interesting read, but the books will hardly land on my 'favourites' shelf or be read a second time. :P
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