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A review by heliotropepajamas
Changes by Mercedes Lackey
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
I am so frustrated by this series. The first book was good, but then we got two more in which pretty much nothing happened. All I care about plotwise is the mysterious foreigners and I'm going to say maybe 50 pages of this book or less was related to that through-line. There are several other subplots but somehow nothing really happens with them either - Lena is anxious and her father is pompous, Bear is unsure and his family is overbearing, and with some minor details that's pretty much the summary of their stories from all three books so far.
As for Kirball - why? I'm pretty sure that barring HP no one has ever looked at a fantasy setting and thought "you know what would make this better? Sports!" So now we have to spend pages and pages reading about people and events that go nowhere in the grand scheme of things.
Finally written out dialects is a personal pet peeve of mind, and I swear Mag's speech gets more outrageous as this book progresses. He wasn't using nearly as many malapropisms or mangling words this much in previous volumes, or even from the beginning of the story from the end. It's getting hard to read at this point.
So yeah - a three star rating but a low three. I'll continue the series because there's potential for a good story there if you can get past all the chaff, but for the most part I'll be skimming.
As for Kirball - why? I'm pretty sure that barring HP no one has ever looked at a fantasy setting and thought "you know what would make this better? Sports!" So now we have to spend pages and pages reading about people and events that go nowhere in the grand scheme of things.
Finally written out dialects is a personal pet peeve of mind, and I swear Mag's speech gets more outrageous as this book progresses. He wasn't using nearly as many malapropisms or mangling words this much in previous volumes, or even from the beginning of the story from the end. It's getting hard to read at this point.
So yeah - a three star rating but a low three. I'll continue the series because there's potential for a good story there if you can get past all the chaff, but for the most part I'll be skimming.