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Spindle's End
by Robin McKinley
What I loved the most about this book was the world building. It was exciting and just... cool. A friend finds the beginning slow, but I think I enjoyed that the most, with the explanation and description of magic! Very fun.
Sometimes the sentences get very long and 'embedded'. So that I lose track of what it was talking about at the start. Sometimes it's not so much the length (as below) but also just really bad syntax.
She found it had to believe that the king and queen hadn't asked particularly that the weather today be fine; even her aunt had been known to make a tiny break in the clouds for a wedding-party to make a dash from the church to the pub where the food was without ruining the bride's finery (village bridal dresses could afford to be as grand as they often were because fairies saw that the weather didn't ruin them from one generation to the next), and her aunt in general didn't believe in messing with the weather.
The climax was a bit weird. I know it was supposed to be all jumbly and dreamy, but it was so overloaded on dreaminess that I couldn't really understand what the point was in some of the things they did. It was overall too long and convoluted for it to be really really a climax. Actually the whole thing was kind of long winded. Despite this, I still managed to enjoy it. What does that say?
Some of the characters felt a bit wooden and shallow, but overall I enjoyed them. The ending was alright. It was rushed and too quick, as though making up for having taken too long everywhere else.
what on earth was that castle? was it just Pernicia's castle? but why so out of the blue? they should have at least mentioned something about her castle beforehand. It was also kind of lame about each of the animals attacking in their own special ways. I mean seriously, licking and jumping at faceless people to death? You've got to be kidding me. And isn't Narl like at least 20 years older than Rosie?
Sometimes the sentences get very long and 'embedded'. So that I lose track of what it was talking about at the start. Sometimes it's not so much the length (as below) but also just really bad syntax.
She found it had to believe that the king and queen hadn't asked particularly that the weather today be fine; even her aunt had been known to make a tiny break in the clouds for a wedding-party to make a dash from the church to the pub where the food was without ruining the bride's finery (village bridal dresses could afford to be as grand as they often were because fairies saw that the weather didn't ruin them from one generation to the next), and her aunt in general didn't believe in messing with the weather.
The climax was a bit weird. I know it was supposed to be all jumbly and dreamy, but it was so overloaded on dreaminess that I couldn't really understand what the point was in some of the things they did. It was overall too long and convoluted for it to be really really a climax. Actually the whole thing was kind of long winded. Despite this, I still managed to enjoy it. What does that say?
Some of the characters felt a bit wooden and shallow, but overall I enjoyed them. The ending was alright. It was rushed and too quick, as though making up for having taken too long everywhere else.