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A review by errrick
Ten Arrows of Iron by Sam Sykes
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
2.5
I'll just say:
-There is a difference between character development and characters still doing the same thing they've always done but whining about it while they're doing it. Also, whining about it over and over doesn't do anything new.
-After your main character gets into a near certain death situation and is rescued by a secondary character (whose main function is to rescue the main character from near certain death situations) multiple times your main character starts to look way less cool.
-In a heist book, the stakes aren't raised when the plan goes wrong if the audience doesn't know what the plan was anyway. Because you don't really know if it's going wrong or not. If you want the reader to say, "Oh no! Things have gone wrong!" they need to actually know things have gone wrong.
-Be careful surrounding your main character with people more interesting and competent than they are, because readers would rather you wrote a book about them than your main character.
-There is a difference between character development and characters still doing the same thing they've always done but whining about it while they're doing it. Also, whining about it over and over doesn't do anything new.
-After your main character gets into a near certain death situation and is rescued by a secondary character (whose main function is to rescue the main character from near certain death situations) multiple times your main character starts to look way less cool.
-In a heist book, the stakes aren't raised when the plan goes wrong if the audience doesn't know what the plan was anyway. Because you don't really know if it's going wrong or not. If you want the reader to say, "Oh no! Things have gone wrong!" they need to actually know things have gone wrong.
-Be careful surrounding your main character with people more interesting and competent than they are, because readers would rather you wrote a book about them than your main character.