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lightreads) wrote2018-01-06 02:52 pm
lightreads) wrote2018-01-06 02:52 pm
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Penric's Mission by Lois McMaster Bujold
Penric’s Mission
2/5. Continuing adventures of Penric and his accidental demon. It would have been a 3/5 for pleasantly diverting Bujoldian adventure, but then. My dudes. You can not write the first third of a novel, half-assedly resolve about 20% of the conflict and none of the important interpersonal questions, and then just end it with everyone literally marching off into uncertainty and call it a novella. And it’s not one of those artistic non-endings, either. It’s a screamingly obvious “whoops this grew a novel but I donwanna write it but I do want to sell some books sooooo….”
2/5. Continuing adventures of Penric and his accidental demon. It would have been a 3/5 for pleasantly diverting Bujoldian adventure, but then. My dudes. You can not write the first third of a novel, half-assedly resolve about 20% of the conflict and none of the important interpersonal questions, and then just end it with everyone literally marching off into uncertainty and call it a novella. And it’s not one of those artistic non-endings, either. It’s a screamingly obvious “whoops this grew a novel but I donwanna write it but I do want to sell some books sooooo….”
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I am so far behind on this, I didn't even remember that Prisoner exists. And I think there's a new one coming soon? Idk, I hope these are making her money or whatever, because otherwise it's kind of frustrating.
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I like Penric and Desdemona and the world, but I do think some of these stories would do better beefed up into full-length novels.