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mostly about "Empress"
Jul. 21st, 2013 11:29 pmIt rained Friday (!!!!!) and the weather has cooled significantly down. It was even slightly cool today when I went out, and it was enormously satisfying to walk in the sunshine and enjoy it.
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I was at the mall today and went and read some more of Empress. (I'm not really a fan of shopping.) I'm now up to about page 150.
( spoilers I suppose )
Oh, that brings me to the other point. THE COMMA SPLICES. I know, picky, but she uses them multiple times in a paragraph, on every page. I swear I'm not using hyperbole. It's everywhere. Also when Hekat speaks, there's a subtle shift in writing, where she will drop words that make the writing choppy.
I don't recall Miller using comma splices so often in CW: Wild Space or CW Gambit: Stealth, so I think it's for effect, but while I can and do ignore some of it, some just leap out at me and I end up thinking about the comma splices instead of the stuff I'm reading.
But mostly the political stuff bogged me down. I don't care about Raklion, he can go do whatever he pleases, but I want to see more of Hekat! And also see Abajai get his comeuppance. (There's not a chance Hekat's father will get his comeuppance on page, but I would love to see Abajai get his. I just enjoy revenge stories in general.)
Lastly: in the bookstore I noticed the second book was in stock and oh my god it's enormous! It's over a thousand pages and much taller than a paperback, although it has similar margins and print size.
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I was at the mall today and went and read some more of Empress. (I'm not really a fan of shopping.) I'm now up to about page 150.
( spoilers I suppose )
Oh, that brings me to the other point. THE COMMA SPLICES. I know, picky, but she uses them multiple times in a paragraph, on every page. I swear I'm not using hyperbole. It's everywhere. Also when Hekat speaks, there's a subtle shift in writing, where she will drop words that make the writing choppy.
I don't recall Miller using comma splices so often in CW: Wild Space or CW Gambit: Stealth, so I think it's for effect, but while I can and do ignore some of it, some just leap out at me and I end up thinking about the comma splices instead of the stuff I'm reading.
But mostly the political stuff bogged me down. I don't care about Raklion, he can go do whatever he pleases, but I want to see more of Hekat! And also see Abajai get his comeuppance. (There's not a chance Hekat's father will get his comeuppance on page, but I would love to see Abajai get his. I just enjoy revenge stories in general.)
Lastly: in the bookstore I noticed the second book was in stock and oh my god it's enormous! It's over a thousand pages and much taller than a paperback, although it has similar margins and print size.
