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A review by ablotial
Paths of Alir by Melissa McPhail
5.0
Definitely the best book in the series (so far at least), although I was worried in the first few hours of listening because suddenly a bunch of new characters were introduced that I didn't care about (yet) and their stories didn't seem to fit in with the rest. I wanted to get back to Ian, and Tannis, and and and...
But this book had many twists and turns, and not so predictable. Still had a lot of the same editing annoyances as the previous two, but I guess I'm getting used to it because it bothered me less (though I still noticed). And the characters from the beginning did eventually become useful and interesting, it just took a while. But once it got going, it really god going! I wish I had more time in the day to devote to continuing my progress through this book.
Even my two year old got addicted to this one. I listened to it in the car during our commute (yes, I know there are some not-appropriate-for-kids scenes in this one, but I promise that he doesn't understand yet). But any time it wasn't on he would yell at me "I want talking mommy!" until I turned the audiobook back on. One day my phone battery was dead and I tried to replace it with talk radio, but he would not have it. "no, other talking mommy! phone talking!" I fear what will happen when the series is over and I change narrators!
Ian (Ean?!) pisses me off though. He's really bad at thinking about things from other people's perspective, let's his own rash feelings get in the way of things. Doesn't let people explain their motivations. Drives me nuts. Actually I guess they are all kind of like that to some extent - it fuels a lot of the conflicts and misunderstandings that move the book forward. But it's annoying... if people just told their thoughts in the first place, or let others explain ... *sigh*
I immediately started book 4 upon finishing this one.
But this book had many twists and turns, and not so predictable. Still had a lot of the same editing annoyances as the previous two, but I guess I'm getting used to it because it bothered me less (though I still noticed). And the characters from the beginning did eventually become useful and interesting, it just took a while. But once it got going, it really god going! I wish I had more time in the day to devote to continuing my progress through this book.
Even my two year old got addicted to this one. I listened to it in the car during our commute (yes, I know there are some not-appropriate-for-kids scenes in this one, but I promise that he doesn't understand yet). But any time it wasn't on he would yell at me "I want talking mommy!" until I turned the audiobook back on. One day my phone battery was dead and I tried to replace it with talk radio, but he would not have it. "no, other talking mommy! phone talking!" I fear what will happen when the series is over and I change narrators!
Ian (Ean?!) pisses me off though. He's really bad at thinking about things from other people's perspective, let's his own rash feelings get in the way of things. Doesn't let people explain their motivations. Drives me nuts. Actually I guess they are all kind of like that to some extent - it fuels a lot of the conflicts and misunderstandings that move the book forward. But it's annoying... if people just told their thoughts in the first place, or let others explain ... *sigh*
I immediately started book 4 upon finishing this one.