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Literature / Re: Yearly Reading Targets 2022
« Last post by The P on May 06, 2022, 02:32:01 pm »The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft (12)
This was a good conclusion to the series. Again, the big issue I have is the pacing; starting over with a new perspective of events that have already happened. I think it would work better with pov chapters alternating in a more linear layout. But still, I enjoyed it. Good writing and character development, satisfying climaxes. Very, very steampunky with lots of hand-wavey anachronistic tech, but it doesn't take itself too seriously, fortunately.
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It sounds to me like the author either didn't like, or didn't feel comfortable, writing human characters, but that's just a guess. I dislike fantasy being set in half built worlds with lazy worldbuilding stapled onto real world places/histories. Making up lore is one of the prime factors that set Fantasy apart, so doing a bad job at it ruins the book, at least imo.
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Normally this would bother me, but the story is so short, it's a minor quibble.
This was a good conclusion to the series. Again, the big issue I have is the pacing; starting over with a new perspective of events that have already happened. I think it would work better with pov chapters alternating in a more linear layout. But still, I enjoyed it. Good writing and character development, satisfying climaxes. Very, very steampunky with lots of hand-wavey anachronistic tech, but it doesn't take itself too seriously, fortunately.
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It sounds to me like the author either didn't like, or didn't feel comfortable, writing human characters, but that's just a guess. I dislike fantasy being set in half built worlds with lazy worldbuilding stapled onto real world places/histories. Making up lore is one of the prime factors that set Fantasy apart, so doing a bad job at it ruins the book, at least imo.
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Normally this would bother me, but the story is so short, it's a minor quibble.