Book Babble

[redbrunja]

Has anyone on my flist read Civilwarland In Bad Decline? It was miserable. I hated most the the characters. The majority lacked any semblence of a spine and even if that was part of the point I hated it. It was classic miserable dystopia future. Now I want to go back to my dorm and watch something uplifting, like Criminal Minds and child molestation.

On the subject of books, I also finished Ink Exchange and I'm not sure what I think. First, the 'you will never read another book for pleasure again' portion of the quarter hit, so I ended up pausing in my reading of this book right at the climax, which really through off my stride with it.

I liked the main character more than Aisling and I loved the 'you have no power over my and I'm going to college' ending. But I really didn't like that Niall ended up as the King of the Dark Court, and that Marr is avoiding having ANY fairy court be evil. It's the exact opposite of my problem with Tithe and doesn't seem narratively workable.

Also, I don't the repetition of both heroes of the first two books ending up of Kings of their own Courts.

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[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I hated it.

I didn't see any different between the Courts (they were both bad) and I didn't really like any of the characters.

The book did not deserve the epically awesome cover it got.