I am now 272pp into The True Queen (out of 367) and am confident that if that bothered you about Sorcerer to the Crown it would also bother you in this book.
I'm enjoying it immensely as light, frothy fun, but it is SUCH an idiot plot.
It doesn't help that the... I forget the standard word for this, but what Jo Walton calls "incluing", the dropping details the reader doesn't know about the setting which the characters should, is done with a level of subtlety somewhere between a superhero comic ("I, Cyclops, also known as Scott Summers, will break down this door with my optic blasts!") and a celebrity Christmas special with actors starring as themselves. (Steven Colbert, answering the door, entire sentence in the vocative: "Timeless symbol of joy and mirth, Santa Claus!")
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Re: spoilers for <i>SttC</i>
Date: 2019-05-20 02:34 pm (UTC)I am now 272pp into The True Queen (out of 367) and am confident that if that bothered you about Sorcerer to the Crown it would also bother you in this book.
I'm enjoying it immensely as light, frothy fun, but it is SUCH an idiot plot.
It doesn't help that the... I forget the standard word for this, but what Jo Walton calls "incluing", the dropping details the reader doesn't know about the setting which the characters should, is done with a level of subtlety somewhere between a superhero comic ("I, Cyclops, also known as Scott Summers, will break down this door with my optic blasts!") and a celebrity Christmas special with actors starring as themselves. (Steven Colbert, answering the door, entire sentence in the vocative: "Timeless symbol of joy and mirth, Santa Claus!")