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Originally posted by Encard:
I went for Sara Douglas, because I absolutely hate those Enchanter books of hers... Read the first, forced myself to read the second in hopes it was better (if anything, it seemed worse), and couldn't manage to make myself read the third. It's like a series of horribly-executed fantasdy cliches mixed with the complete elimination of any version of intelligence or logic by the characters, or the author's choices of how events should work out. I mean, for crying out loud... The books give the villain-esque character who plays a large role in the first two books (Bornehold or however Axis's brother's name was spelled, for those of you familiar with the books) a good reason for wanting to mangle the main character, plus the reason why he was so bitter at the main character through the whole time is proven to be true, and the reader's expected to cheer when he main character defeats him? What the heck is this? Plus the main character (and for that matter, ALL the characters) seem to have only about four generic things each they're capable of doing. Plus the plot's pretty poor, plus a lot of other problems... Won't go into a full description currently, methinks, would take too long. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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[img]graemlins/crying.gif[/img] Not my beloved Sara Douglass!!!
She's second only to G.R.R. Martin. Her book isn't your typical Fantasy novel. Instead of being black and white, the characters are shade of gray. Borneheld has his reasons to act as he was, and so did Axis. You are not expected to cheer.
You should have kept reading. By the end of the third book I was crying and cursing Sara Douglass for ever writing such a story. Of course now that I'm over it I'm very happy she did. Any book that can affect me so much is a masterpiece, in my opinion.