[ SECRET POST #3419 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3419 ⌋

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[Shingeki no Kyojin]


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["Seitenkango, Shinyuu to" by Eroe]
















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Early Mercedes Lackey was great, though...

is it just me, or did she go downhill over the years? I feel like her books got less and less interesting as the years wore on. I found everything post-nineties to be unreadable. Granted, I gave up on her in the early naughties, so maybe she got past it.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel the same way. In fact, I only finished the Collegium Chronicles because I was hoping for references to her earlier books. (Which, sadly, turned out to be few and far in between.)

[dinogrrl]

I was introduced to her stuff late, so I'm only familiar with her more recent works, and...yeah I love her ideas and worldbuilding, but she repeats herself so much. I literally skipped two entire chapters' worth of Joust because of the repetition and the story still made complete sense to me, which is kinda not what I'd think an author would want a reader to do? I'd like to read more of her stuff because who doesn't like dragons and griffins and magic, but the fact that I was able to (and had to, for the sake of my sanity) skip huge chunks of the story like that really turned me off. Was that a thing in her earlier works too?

[quantumreality]

That's even worse than Turtledove :O

[(Anonymous)]

I feel bad saying anything negative about Lackey because that first trilogy of hers was SO GOOD, with such delightful worldbuilding and fun characters, but I felt she very quickly started to commit the error of giving her readers just what she thought they would want, tied with a bow, and that's such a bad path for an author. Everything's so predictable, endings are so nice and neat...it makes you wince, reading it. That started to creep into her books really fast.

But damn, I love that Arrows series. I reread it bunches.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah probably. I love a lot of earlier Lackey stuff but haven't read much of her new stuff, although there a few here and there that are fun. For me it was a combination of her stuff not being as good as well as just being too used to her writing style. Her voice as a writer started to grate on my nerves. That's happened for me with several authors I read who've released a lot of books.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know, I thought her Elemental Masters series was okay.