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The Familiar
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What happened to the Six of Crow writer? Was that a fever dream? A ghostwriter?
The pacing is completely off in this book. It’s slightly better than the atrocious KoS/RoW fanfiction.
I’ll update with a longer review later. But the amazing author and Goth Leigh Bardugo of 2011-2017 is long long gone?
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Update: this is just a bland and flatly written darklina au . . .
Somehow she made it BORING?! It might be all the moral superiority and inability to make the main characters actually be morally grey. The characters are written in such a flat manner. The antagonists are pure evil, the protagonists are either pure good or everything they do is justified to the point I’m rolling my eyes. These feel like children’s books characters with no complexity to them. Leigh needs to go on a retreat, step away from LA, and reconnect to her chaotic evil self from 2010s. This mid-life crisis everything is pure, morally superior, and justified writer just isn’t leigh.
The pacing is completely off in this book. It’s slightly better than the atrocious KoS/RoW fanfiction.
I’ll update with a longer review later. But the amazing author and Goth Leigh Bardugo of 2011-2017 is long long gone?
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Update: this is just a bland and flatly written darklina au . . .
Somehow she made it BORING?! It might be all the moral superiority and inability to make the main characters actually be morally grey. The characters are written in such a flat manner. The antagonists are pure evil, the protagonists are either pure good or everything they do is justified to the point I’m rolling my eyes. These feel like children’s books characters with no complexity to them. Leigh needs to go on a retreat, step away from LA, and reconnect to her chaotic evil self from 2010s. This mid-life crisis everything is pure, morally superior, and justified writer just isn’t leigh.
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Apr 12, 2024 04:23AM
It’s just not written for teenagers like six of crows is
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@alfie No. The whole prose and pacing is off.
The goth queen is gone, mid life crisis has her becoming a moralist who hates complex characters and wags her fingers at any goth who does like dark characters
Connie wrote: "The goth queen is gone, mid life crisis has her becoming a moralist who hates complex characters and wags her fingers at any goth who does like dark characters"yeah a mid-life crisis explains so much. Terrible. Those usually make people try to have more fun, but in this case it really did make her a moralist as you say. I don’t think she understands this but maybe someday she’ll look back and regret becoming a moralist hellbent (pun intended) on appeasing Puritan puriteens while sacrificing her stories and her fans who like darkness for it.
Alfie wrote: "It’s just not written for teenagers like six of crows is"It is very much still written in YA tones. Leigh tried to do an adult novel but the protagonist is still so YA. None of the other characters have much depth and the story feels dull. I never, ever thought someone could make a story set during the Spanish Inqisition boring yet here we are
Maybe she needs to retire or take time off writting like GRRM?
She needs to abandon the puriteen puritanical stance she adpted, but that would involve admitting she was wrong. She'll never do that. She prefers to shame people for liking ETL, gothic and dark romance ...she literally did so at the press conference
