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A review by thinde
A Snake Lies Waiting by Jin Yong
3.0
While this is an addictive series, it is also irritating.
There is no clear objective. Things just keep going and going, with no end in sight. This may be the point. It's a mechanism to explore character vignettes.
Every character seems gullible. If a stranger tells them their father is dead and points to a random second stranger as the murderer... it's off to battle without a pause for consideration.
Loyalty to one's martial family trumps everything. If you see one of your brethren in a fight, don't try to understand the situation, or who is in the wrong, just leap into the fight on your sibling's side.
There are no moral consequences, only vengeance. Someone is a mass murderer but serves you a nice cup of tea... all is forgiven. Another person offends your sensibilities by fighting that same mass murderer... a lifetime of vengeance is vowed.
In short, it has the verisimilitude of a fairytale... but also the heart.
There is no clear objective. Things just keep going and going, with no end in sight. This may be the point. It's a mechanism to explore character vignettes.
Every character seems gullible. If a stranger tells them their father is dead and points to a random second stranger as the murderer... it's off to battle without a pause for consideration.
Loyalty to one's martial family trumps everything. If you see one of your brethren in a fight, don't try to understand the situation, or who is in the wrong, just leap into the fight on your sibling's side.
There are no moral consequences, only vengeance. Someone is a mass murderer but serves you a nice cup of tea... all is forgiven. Another person offends your sensibilities by fighting that same mass murderer... a lifetime of vengeance is vowed.
In short, it has the verisimilitude of a fairytale... but also the heart.