This series fell flat for me, too. I kept waiting for it to turn into, y'know... Bujold.
I know from LMB's 2008 Denvention speech that she was trying to tell a story where the romance was the main thing, but that didn't mean she needed to give the SF or the adventure story short shrift.
There needed to be *some* resolution to the Malice thread: not necessarily kicking all Malice asses back to the hell they came from, or building detente with them, but something. The series is over and we still don't know where they originated or how many there are or whether there's a really effective way to fight them. Well, I guess Whit's weapon is a step up, but still.
A very frustrating series overall. Enough sparks of Bujold's true abilities to keep me reading, but nowhere near enough to satisfy.
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Date: 2009-04-15 01:57 pm (UTC)I know from LMB's 2008 Denvention speech that she was trying to tell a story where the romance was the main thing, but that didn't mean she needed to give the SF or the adventure story short shrift.
There needed to be *some* resolution to the Malice thread: not necessarily kicking all Malice asses back to the hell they came from, or building detente with them, but something. The series is over and we still don't know where they originated or how many there are or whether there's a really effective way to fight them. Well, I guess Whit's weapon is a step up, but still.
A very frustrating series overall. Enough sparks of Bujold's true abilities to keep me reading, but nowhere near enough to satisfy.