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2014 booklog #19- Wolfsangel
Sep. 22nd, 2014 03:06 pmJust read MD Lachlan's Wolfsangel. Not bad, but not great either - I doubt I'll go looking for the sequels unless they turn up for 50p in a charity shop.
It was entertaining enough, and - with the exception of POV shifts within paragraphs, which is a personal bugbear of mine - well written, but it never quite delivered on its promises. It all actually feels like a more low-key subplot or spinoff from a more epic whole, if you see what I mean. Rather than feeling like I've dipped into the wider world, however, I feel more like I've been cut off from the interesting stuff in that world. Characterisation constantly *almost* gets there, but then falls back on telling us something rather than revealing it through thoughts or actions or story...
I probably sound a lot more negative about it than I actually am, because it was entertaining, and I loved all the Viking stuff, but it just doesn't quite deliver on what it's clearly capable of delivering. It also feels like just backstory to a future epic, rather than an epic in its own right...
Ah well. Good, and if you like Norse stuff or the Vikings TV show you should get something out of it, but it so clearly could have been much... *more*.
It was entertaining enough, and - with the exception of POV shifts within paragraphs, which is a personal bugbear of mine - well written, but it never quite delivered on its promises. It all actually feels like a more low-key subplot or spinoff from a more epic whole, if you see what I mean. Rather than feeling like I've dipped into the wider world, however, I feel more like I've been cut off from the interesting stuff in that world. Characterisation constantly *almost* gets there, but then falls back on telling us something rather than revealing it through thoughts or actions or story...
I probably sound a lot more negative about it than I actually am, because it was entertaining, and I loved all the Viking stuff, but it just doesn't quite deliver on what it's clearly capable of delivering. It also feels like just backstory to a future epic, rather than an epic in its own right...
Ah well. Good, and if you like Norse stuff or the Vikings TV show you should get something out of it, but it so clearly could have been much... *more*.
