[ SECRET POST #7003 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7003 ⌋

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Naomi Novik

[(Anonymous)]

There are a lot of authors that just aren't for me but she is the most recent author where the writing enraged me.

Re: Naomi Novik

[(Anonymous)]

Same.

Re: Naomi Novik

[(Anonymous)]

I loved the idea of Her Majesty's Dragon but that book was really light on plot.

Re: Naomi Novik

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, hey, she was going to be my answer, too!

The thing that stands out about her writing, for me, is that I think she's really good—and yet I do not jibe with her narrative sensibilities at all. Reading her books (and honestly her fanfic too) is an exercise in frustration for me, because there'll be things I find really interesting and promising about the story...and then whatever the story does with those interesting and promising elements is inevitable not satisfying or rewarding to me at all.

I'm not even arguing that she's not a good writer. I think she is. But oh man, the things she finds rewarding and engaging about stories are mostly not the things I find rewarding and engaging about stories.

Re: Naomi Novik

[(Anonymous)]

Which book were you reading and what was it that enraged you about it?

Asking as someone who also doesn't click with her writing.

Re: Naomi Novik

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't like Temeraire (boring, full of caricatures) but I really liked Scholomance, although to continue past the first chapter I had to confirm from outside sources that the MC really is meant to be an unreliable narrator (that's just something I don't trust YA to do consciously on principle, not just with Naomi Novik).