Hmmm. I can't disagree with you in any way....but I felt satisfied by them both. Maybe because I've been absorbing Sam for so long I know what his short form is like and don't expect more? Big Plotting is still a weak point of his I think (but he'll get there).
My (verylong) con-crit of Trace is that it resolves too easily, the characters aren't challenged enough, the story doesn't throw nearly enough obstacles in their way. NOT EPIC ENOUGH, was my diagnosis. In his current rewrites I know he's working on that as well as several other things I went on and on about - I have high hopes that the scale of the story structure will have grown to match the epic-ness I sense lurking in the story.
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My (very long) con-crit of Trace is that it resolves too easily, the characters aren't challenged enough, the story doesn't throw nearly enough obstacles in their way. NOT EPIC ENOUGH, was my diagnosis. In his current rewrites I know he's working on that as well as several other things I went on and on about - I have high hopes that the scale of the story structure will have grown to match the epic-ness I sense lurking in the story.