geekyTHERE WILL BE SPOILERS.
Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned. (I will not reply to every comment; I call partial comment amnesty. But I may well join some of the discussion, or answer questions or whatnot.)
You can also start a book discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence, since I always wind up getting involved in these things.
Have fun!
May 25 2012, 04:58:24 UTC 5 years ago
I thought I knew these characters and this series. I didn't really have any conscious sense of what would happen when I picked up the book, but I also felt that it would feel predictable as I read it.
It didn't. At all.
Every new scene had me first going, "What the hell?" and then going,"Well, of course. That makes perfect sense."
I love that it's predictable that you won't be predictable.
I loved that in the middle of an intense fight scene, when I was tense wondering if someone I cared about was going to die, you made me laugh.
I am so jazzed that the heroes got to stop being heroes and turn the next step over to someone else. That almost never happens in an adventure story.
This qualifies as one of the best books, and one of the best trilogies I've ever read.
Thank you.
June 15 2012, 14:34:24 UTC 5 years ago