I love the first two Kushiel's trilogies and am pleasantly neutral on the third one, but I'm not obsessive about them the way I am about, say, Tigana.
Talk to me about the second and third? I don't know if I'll read them, but I'm curious for enthusiastic viewpoints. In some ways I feel like my mistake with Kushiel's Dart was imprinting on Anafiel Delaunay, who turned out not to be a major character after all.
It spends a lot of time talking about the band Loup works for, which I enjoyed, but it does make the second book a whole lot more All About The Men than the first one, and it doesn't do anything new or interesting to make up for it.
Check. I'm not hearing that reading Saints Astray ruins Santa Olivia, which is very important (Children of God, I'm looking at you), but I'm also not hearing a compelling reason to search it out. I am a little sorry, because Santa Olivia was just that awesome, but at least it exists as it is.
It's like her publishing company told her she had to jump on the bandwagon of 'Quirky Small Town Girl Who Does Supernatural Stuff' and she deliberately wrote something that pinged all the requirements of the genre, while being dull as dust, just to spite them. If it weren't for the author's name on the cover, I would never, never have pegged it as a Jacqueline Carey novel; it reads like she was already planning to disown it as she was writing it.
That's really sad. That's not even a genre that needs more authors, you know?
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Talk to me about the second and third? I don't know if I'll read them, but I'm curious for enthusiastic viewpoints. In some ways I feel like my mistake with Kushiel's Dart was imprinting on Anafiel Delaunay, who turned out not to be a major character after all.
It spends a lot of time talking about the band Loup works for, which I enjoyed, but it does make the second book a whole lot more All About The Men than the first one, and it doesn't do anything new or interesting to make up for it.
Check. I'm not hearing that reading Saints Astray ruins Santa Olivia, which is very important (Children of God, I'm looking at you), but I'm also not hearing a compelling reason to search it out. I am a little sorry, because Santa Olivia was just that awesome, but at least it exists as it is.
It's like her publishing company told her she had to jump on the bandwagon of 'Quirky Small Town Girl Who Does Supernatural Stuff' and she deliberately wrote something that pinged all the requirements of the genre, while being dull as dust, just to spite them. If it weren't for the author's name on the cover, I would never, never have pegged it as a Jacqueline Carey novel; it reads like she was already planning to disown it as she was writing it.
That's really sad. That's not even a genre that needs more authors, you know?