The Last Straw

[world-dancer.livejournal.com]

Since I'm having a slow week, I thought I'd poll the lashers on what was the book where you stopped reading. I realize that some are still reading (tenacity, you haz it).

I stopped with Cerulean Sins. I may, one day, have to start up reading again, but that day has not yet come, and I am grateful for that.

Cerulean Sins also holds the title of "Only book I have ever thrown at the wall." I don't like to mistreat books and am one of those people who don't even crack the spine.

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[apep727.livejournal.com]

And Toby actually has reasons to be whiney and angsty. I finished One Salt Sea a few weeks ago, and it was just so melancholy at the end.

The only book I had problems with was A Local Habitation because the Obvious Plot Twist was Obvious.

[aramuin.livejournal.com]

I think the big divide is Toby thinks 'I don't like this thing/person/event' and goes looking for a way to fix it or at least make it better. Her fae blood becoming more dominant isn't a pointless power-up. Every time she gets closer to her mother's bloodline, it makes her life harder.

Habitation is a little weak in the A plot but the idea of Fae trying to adapt to the human world, where human technology is starting to rival their magic? I really loved that idea. I liked that it isn't something that comes naturally, it isn't something that they're suddenly wonderful at and it's something that felt very real.

One Salt Sea was a gut-punch, wasn't it?

[apep727.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the concept of Habitation is great, but the "gee, we never see Character A and Character B in the same place at the same time" thing was frustrating. I just wanted to grab Toby and go "YOU KNOW FAIRIES ARE REAL! THINK ABOUT IT!"

Funny thing about the ending of One Salt Sea - the day I finished it, all I could think when I started was, "oh, god, are we really doing the whole love-triangle thing? I hate love triangles."

Then the ending happened. I almost feel bad, in retrospect.

[world-dancer.livejournal.com]

I blame it on Toby recovering from having fish brains in universe. Because yeah, some plot twists are screamingly obvious. The later books are much better on that.