I agree with, like, every single thing you just said. Personally, I do like having a little bit of anticipation before the next book, but I understand that you are, by that point expecting something amazing that you may or may not get. I am also a lukewarm Inheritance fan... I liked Eragon, hated Eldest, Brisingr was OK, and I am planning on reading Inheritance, only to see if Eragon and Arya wind up together. Also, with Harry Potter, the first, oh, maybe four books were great, but after that I felt like the author was just trying to fill up pages.
About the female charachters.....YOu make some great points. Something that also bothers me about female leads in alot of fantasy is that many of them seem to have a contempt for cooking and sewing and all those essential things that 'ordinary' women do. I do have a suggestion for a series that you might like. I don't know if you've ever read the Truth Series by Dawn Cook, but it is one of my favorites. Alissa, the main female charachter, is a farm girl whose mother suddenly sends her of to a magical school that Alissa, who doesn't beleive in magic, thinks is just a figment from one of her father's bedtime stories. On her way there, she meets a travelling minstrel, who is fleeing the news of the death of his entire family. They end up being snowed in at the fortress with the madman who murdered Alissa's father, and have to pull off quite the ruse to keep him from dicovering who her father was and killing her too. Anyway, ALissa has some charachter flaw that she needs to overcome throughout the series. And does get kind of jealous when she meets a girl from her love interest's past, also, her teacher (who she happens to call 'Useless'!) is very concerned that if she is forbidden to marry the man she loves, she will leave everything behind, all of her potential and power, and follow him. I find in reading reviews that most people either love Alissa or hate her, and their opinion of the series rides mostly on their impression of her. THe other thing that I should warn you is, well, please please please ignore the covers! They were recently reissued with horrible new covers that do not in anyway represent the content of the books. To quote Drashizu who is also a fan..."they frighten me." My icon comes from the original covers of the books. All I can say is that if I ever wrote a book, I would not allow such horrible covers to ruin everyone's impression of my book.
Was that a long enough rant?? It even had a book rec, which makes it better right?!
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Date: 2011-11-10 03:08 pm (UTC)About the female charachters.....YOu make some great points. Something that also bothers me about female leads in alot of fantasy is that many of them seem to have a contempt for cooking and sewing and all those essential things that 'ordinary' women do. I do have a suggestion for a series that you might like. I don't know if you've ever read the Truth Series by Dawn Cook, but it is one of my favorites. Alissa, the main female charachter, is a farm girl whose mother suddenly sends her of to a magical school that Alissa, who doesn't beleive in magic, thinks is just a figment from one of her father's bedtime stories. On her way there, she meets a travelling minstrel, who is fleeing the news of the death of his entire family. They end up being snowed in at the fortress with the madman who murdered Alissa's father, and have to pull off quite the ruse to keep him from dicovering who her father was and killing her too. Anyway, ALissa has some charachter flaw that she needs to overcome throughout the series. And does get kind of jealous when she meets a girl from her love interest's past, also, her teacher (who she happens to call 'Useless'!) is very concerned that if she is forbidden to marry the man she loves, she will leave everything behind, all of her potential and power, and follow him. I find in reading reviews that most people either love Alissa or hate her, and their opinion of the series rides mostly on their impression of her. THe other thing that I should warn you is, well, please please please ignore the covers! They were recently reissued with horrible new covers that do not in anyway represent the content of the books. To quote Drashizu who is also a fan..."they frighten me." My icon comes from the original covers of the books. All I can say is that if I ever wrote a book, I would not allow such horrible covers to ruin everyone's impression of my book.
Was that a long enough rant?? It even had a book rec, which makes it better right?!