currently reading: Martha Wells - Witch King
what a start! You get thrown a barrage of names, factions and things to remember - and explanation comes later in "past"-chapters thrown in every once in a while
...if there ever is an explanation that is
It feels like starting at the third part if a series - sometimes taxing.
and it feels like there should be more emotions? IDK, it's a nice enough book, but somewhat taxing to read.
what a start! You get thrown a barrage of names, factions and things to remember - and explanation comes later in "past"-chapters thrown in every once in a while
...if there ever is an explanation that is
It feels like starting at the third part if a series - sometimes taxing.
and it feels like there should be more emotions? IDK, it's a nice enough book, but somewhat taxing to read.
@np @dat Sounds similiar to what I currently read. In "The Goblin Emperor" the author introduces a very own schema of naming things/persons
I find myself looking up words in the appendix very often.
In case you dont know it yet: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26869849M/The_Goblin_Emperor
btw: I bought that #Ebook together with a couple others by #MarthaWells in a recent #HumbleBundle
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/martha-wells-murderbot-and-more-tor-books
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/martha-wells-murderbot-and-more-tor-books
So, I'm now nearing the end of the book and I still have no clue regarding most of the factions.
This book is somewhat of a mess.
IDK what makes the "blessed" blessed.
Demons can't return to the underearth? Unless Kai just does… but hey, not returning to his body - so maybe that's a difference? But why wont they do it all the time to communicate?
He's the "witch king"? But he's no witch?
So swapping bodies is just accepted (although in story it basically never happens) by all people Kai meets? Yay? "Oh, you're Kai? Fine! Let's go defeat the evil side!" No need to prove identity! Not even "how does this happen? And why you again?"
Worst stuff Kai ever encounters from swapping bodies? Meh' longer limbs need like an hour to getting used to (he's fighting nonetheless during that) and that one body seems to have less endurance than his first one? That's about it as far as I know.
No panic attack, no stumbling around because coordination is something humans have to learn over a decade, no "fuck, that guy is terminally ill without his knowledge!"?
And then there's the things that are just straight… awkward? Like borrowing the dead eyes a ghoul collected for disguise? How could that ever work? Does Kai just glue the eyes in front of his normal ones? How does he see?
This book is somewhat of a mess.
IDK what makes the "blessed" blessed.
Demons can't return to the underearth? Unless Kai just does… but hey, not returning to his body - so maybe that's a difference? But why wont they do it all the time to communicate?
He's the "witch king"? But he's no witch?
So swapping bodies is just accepted (although in story it basically never happens) by all people Kai meets? Yay? "Oh, you're Kai? Fine! Let's go defeat the evil side!" No need to prove identity! Not even "how does this happen? And why you again?"
Worst stuff Kai ever encounters from swapping bodies? Meh' longer limbs need like an hour to getting used to (he's fighting nonetheless during that) and that one body seems to have less endurance than his first one? That's about it as far as I know.
No panic attack, no stumbling around because coordination is something humans have to learn over a decade, no "fuck, that guy is terminally ill without his knowledge!"?
And then there's the things that are just straight… awkward? Like borrowing the dead eyes a ghoul collected for disguise? How could that ever work? Does Kai just glue the eyes in front of his normal ones? How does he see?
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I'm not telling anybody to stay away from #MarthaWells #WitchKing…
But maybe consider that there's tons of books around today? Many of them really good?
This book isn't "BAD", but maybe "somewhat just not that good"? IDK if people should spend their time on this. If you want then just go ahead! There's a couple of nice thoughts woven into it.
But is it worth it? ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
But maybe consider that there's tons of books around today? Many of them really good?
This book isn't "BAD", but maybe "somewhat just not that good"? IDK if people should spend their time on this. If you want then just go ahead! There's a couple of nice thoughts woven into it.
But is it worth it? ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯