I was so engrossed in reading this book yesterday evening that I forgot to have any dinner. Oops.
Ok, I’m going to get the slightly snarky comment out of the way first – “breasts like apples”? Really Lois?
Anyway, by the end of these first three chapters I was totally hooked. Fawn appealed to me as a character immediately, I think because of her obvious cleverness and wit, but also because she was pretty intriguing at this point – I wanted to know where she was going, why, what her hinted past was etc. Dag was a slightly slower burn for me (I know, heresy!), but I think that was partly due to the slightly overwhelming amount of information in his POV sections – I found the attack on the bandit camp a little hard to follow in the way that I find all battle scenes in books hard to follow and spent a while going “A whatsense? Mudwho? Hang on, is Saun a man or a woman? Who was it that whatshisname was talking to under the tree again?”. Fawn was easier, I think, because like Cazaril’s POV at the beginning of Curse of Chalion you sort of meet the story a character and a situation at a time, whereas with Dag’s POV you’re rather thrown in at the deep end.
Anyway, by the time he shot the attempted rapist in the arse I was pretty smitten.
I found the world really intriguing too, and the POV switch works very well for that (as well as for moving the story forward) in that we get to see the various cultures from two different angles. I have struggled to build up a clear picture of the landscape though (I feel like I’m only just managing it now, halfway through book 2), whereas with Chalion I had a more or less instant vision of the place. (Sorry for all the Chalion comparisons, I think it might be going to happen a lot…)
I feel like I’ve written quite a moany comment given how much I was loving the book even by this point! I started it at about 11pm on Sunday and was on at least chapter four or five by the time I went to sleep…
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Date: 2012-07-03 04:13 pm (UTC)I was so engrossed in reading this book yesterday evening that I forgot to have any dinner. Oops.Ok, I’m going to get the slightly snarky comment out of the way first – “breasts like apples”? Really Lois?
Anyway, by the end of these first three chapters I was totally hooked. Fawn appealed to me as a character immediately, I think because of her obvious cleverness and wit, but also because she was pretty intriguing at this point – I wanted to know where she was going, why, what her hinted past was etc. Dag was a slightly slower burn for me (I know, heresy!), but I think that was partly due to the slightly overwhelming amount of information in his POV sections – I found the attack on the bandit camp a little hard to follow in the way that I find all battle scenes in books hard to follow and spent a while going “A whatsense? Mudwho? Hang on, is Saun a man or a woman? Who was it that whatshisname was talking to under the tree again?”. Fawn was easier, I think, because like Cazaril’s POV at the beginning of Curse of Chalion you sort of meet the story a character and a situation at a time, whereas with Dag’s POV you’re rather thrown in at the deep end.
Anyway, by the time he shot the attempted rapist in the arse I was pretty smitten.
I found the world really intriguing too, and the POV switch works very well for that (as well as for moving the story forward) in that we get to see the various cultures from two different angles. I have struggled to build up a clear picture of the landscape though (I feel like I’m only just managing it now, halfway through book 2), whereas with Chalion I had a more or less instant vision of the place. (Sorry for all the Chalion comparisons, I think it might be going to happen a lot…)
I feel like I’ve written quite a moany comment given how much I was loving the book even by this point! I started it at about 11pm on Sunday and was on at least chapter four or five by the time I went to sleep…