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Jan. 26th, 2009 08:55 amBook 8: Sons of an Ancient Glory, BJ Hoff, 396 pages.
I'm getting to a point where I'm really ready for this series to be over. Attention held through the last book, but this one was a little more difficult to focus on.
I think another thing that makes "Song of the Silent Harp" as good as it is is that the character list isn't so bloated. By the time we get to book four, we have 10,000,000 new characters to keep up with, some of whom just, honestly, seem extraneous. Why Quinn? Why does everyone who comes in contact with the other characters of this book seem to have A Past They Are Hiding? Getting a little old. Quinn is a cardboard character anyway, it strikes me. Just rehashing the same old issues of sin and i'm-not-good-enough-for-god that she's already dealt with in many of the other characters.
I think she would have done well to skip Quinn and spent more time developing some of the original cast.
That's just me.
Four down, one to go. I'll be ready for a BJ Break at that point.
But, as I was telling Dan last night, it IS good entertainment if nothing else, and of great appeal to melodramatic teenagers such as one I know who once wrote An Amazing Novel that involved a fifteen-year-old girl who secretly marries a sixteen-year-old boy (wonder how they managed that?) and there is rape, theft, dark pasts, jail time, amnesia, abusive parents............
I'm getting to a point where I'm really ready for this series to be over. Attention held through the last book, but this one was a little more difficult to focus on.
I think another thing that makes "Song of the Silent Harp" as good as it is is that the character list isn't so bloated. By the time we get to book four, we have 10,000,000 new characters to keep up with, some of whom just, honestly, seem extraneous. Why Quinn? Why does everyone who comes in contact with the other characters of this book seem to have A Past They Are Hiding? Getting a little old. Quinn is a cardboard character anyway, it strikes me. Just rehashing the same old issues of sin and i'm-not-good-enough-for-god that she's already dealt with in many of the other characters.
I think she would have done well to skip Quinn and spent more time developing some of the original cast.
That's just me.
Four down, one to go. I'll be ready for a BJ Break at that point.
But, as I was telling Dan last night, it IS good entertainment if nothing else, and of great appeal to melodramatic teenagers such as one I know who once wrote An Amazing Novel that involved a fifteen-year-old girl who secretly marries a sixteen-year-old boy (wonder how they managed that?) and there is rape, theft, dark pasts, jail time, amnesia, abusive parents............