I was very disappointed by Pinhoe but I will still give it a re-read and see if it improves. In my first read I felt it was formulaic and flat and a lot of the characters did not appeal to me.
I find your willingness to reread admirable! And it made me think, in a self-critical way, about my own willingness or otherwise, to reread a book I hadn't liked. But - yes, formulaic and flat and there's the problem with the morality of the 'justice' dispensed at the end that C. mentioned - and for me, many of those unappealing characters were ones who shouldn't just have become pegs who can appear with their distinguishing traits and behave in a way necessary to move along the plot (whether it seems consistent with their previous development or not). No time to edit that sentence for running-on. I'll be interested to hear if your response does change at all on a reread.
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Date: 2006-11-29 09:26 pm (UTC)I find your willingness to reread admirable! And it made me think, in a self-critical way, about my own willingness or otherwise, to reread a book I hadn't liked. But - yes, formulaic and flat and there's the problem with the morality of the 'justice' dispensed at the end that C. mentioned - and for me, many of those unappealing characters were ones who shouldn't just have become pegs who can appear with their distinguishing traits and behave in a way necessary to move along the plot (whether it seems consistent with their previous development or not). No time to edit that sentence for running-on. I'll be interested to hear if your response does change at all on a reread.