No book love...

[rimturse]

...so far I don't like the book I'm reading. I think creation stories/stories of gods/stories of past battles that mentions 3-10 characters that the reader has absolutely no investment in are, if maybe not pointless, then incredibly boring and annoying. Start a novel with no less than two separate of these and I start getting irritable, especially since I thought the first part was the standard creation story, which would make the second part the start of the novel and why I started concentrating on the characters there - only to find out by the 3rd part that they were actually loooooong dead, only leading up to a history lecture, and gone by the time the story actually starts.

Continue the actual story by introducing, granted what appears to be just 3-4 main characters, but include 7-10 minor characters PLUS include additional information about long dead characters and irritation level rises, not to mention that while juggling all these characters around, the reader must relate to the huge amounts of information about world-building, politics and various races - this on top of the history mentioned in one of the prologues being expanded on.

Also, I can't figure out if the writing is omni-present of if there really is a case of mangled POV.

Since I actually paid for this book and own not only it, but the sequel, I'm going to grit my teeth and continue reading. Hopefully, my first impressions are waaaay off and the book/books will be worth it.

Comments

[rabiagale.livejournal.com]

Do we get to know the name of this book?

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Not publicly, but I'll send you a private message. :)

I just looked it up on Amazon and it has a 3-star rating.