FINALLY out of the hospital! Wow, what a dip lkh is.
Sherrilyn Kenyon has killed majors, so has Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison, and now Carrie Vaughn. ALL of this so that the plot will move, the storyline mature, and the characters develope. This has been the biggest problem with lkh and her "writing". Take out the tensions and you kill the characters.
I SURE didn't want Arielle OR Jeffrey Miles to die - but wow, think of the possibilities here, especially in view of Jeffrey's channeling abilities. I can't WAIT to see where Ms. Vaughn takes this. Mrs. Harris has killed off several of her majors, and that's just made the entire series better. Ditto Kim Harrison; killing off Kisten did NOT make me happy, but oh, MY, where everybody went from there was exhilirating in terms of plot/storyline/character development.
Sure, lkh killed Frost off, sort of, and then brought him the frack BACK. What do you all want to bet that that's what's going to happen here? And that's the biggest problem with lkh. She's so invested in her imaginary friends that they aren't allowed either to grow or die. C'mon, y'all - she buys them CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. This is a LOT too invested in too many interchangeables to make any kind of sense in any way.
Sheesh, my second book, which I HOPE I'll be through with sometime before the heat death of the universe, has already killed off three of the major protagonists. NO, they're NOT coming back, either. Handling grief and rage, not to mention denial of the event with the inevitable acceptance, is a powerful device that makes both you the author and your characters grow. Anything else is infantile. YES, I know that this is just fiction, and lkh can write it any way that she chooses - her world, her rules, her sillines. That's what's driven a lot of us away. That's also what's keeping *ME* away, too.
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OTHER first-class authors killing off characters
Date: 2010-01-18 01:02 pm (UTC)FINALLY out of the hospital! Wow, what a dip lkh is.
Sherrilyn Kenyon has killed majors, so has Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison, and now Carrie Vaughn. ALL of this so that the plot will move, the storyline mature, and the characters develope. This has been the biggest problem with lkh and her "writing".
Take out the tensions and you kill the characters.
I SURE didn't want Arielle OR Jeffrey Miles to die - but wow, think of the possibilities here, especially in view of Jeffrey's channeling abilities. I can't WAIT to see where Ms. Vaughn takes this. Mrs. Harris has killed off several of her majors, and that's just made the entire series better. Ditto Kim Harrison; killing off Kisten did NOT make me happy, but oh, MY, where everybody went from there was exhilirating in terms of plot/storyline/character development.
Sure, lkh killed Frost off, sort of, and then brought him the frack BACK. What do you all want to bet that that's what's going to happen here? And that's the biggest problem with lkh. She's so invested in her imaginary friends that they aren't allowed either to grow or die. C'mon, y'all - she buys them CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. This is a LOT too invested in too many interchangeables to make any kind of sense in any way.
Sheesh, my second book, which I HOPE I'll be through with sometime before the heat death of the universe, has already killed off three of the major protagonists. NO, they're NOT coming back, either. Handling grief and rage, not to mention denial of the event with the inevitable acceptance, is a powerful device that makes both you the author and your characters grow. Anything else is infantile. YES, I know that this is just fiction, and lkh can write it any way that she chooses - her world, her rules, her sillines. That's what's driven a lot of us away. That's also what's keeping *ME* away, too.
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