I didn't get very far with this book. A few chapters, maybe, and then I admitted I didn't like the main character enough to care whether he ever got into the game world or not.
Funny how some books teeter on whether they'll cross over into faerie stories or not, and sometimes it's better that they do, and sometimes it would have been better that they didn't.
With Tana French's In The Woods, I kept expecting it to happen. The title suggested it, and the lyrical passages about Rob and his friends hinted very strongly that they had been stolen away by some magical force. But the book never goes there, and by the end I felt the story was stronger for it.
With Anne Ursu's Breadcrumbs, the crossover into faerie territory was entirely necessary. There was a mundane story there, but if the magical elements had been removed it would have taken the heart out of the book.
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Date: 2014-02-10 01:54 am (UTC)Funny how some books teeter on whether they'll cross over into faerie stories or not, and sometimes it's better that they do, and sometimes it would have been better that they didn't.
With Tana French's In The Woods, I kept expecting it to happen. The title suggested it, and the lyrical passages about Rob and his friends hinted very strongly that they had been stolen away by some magical force. But the book never goes there, and by the end I felt the story was stronger for it.
With Anne Ursu's Breadcrumbs, the crossover into faerie territory was entirely necessary. There was a mundane story there, but if the magical elements had been removed it would have taken the heart out of the book.