The thing about Russell is that she writes well, on a technical level, but the stories she tells are just not very good. I've always felt that she would have benfitted from four or five years on ff.net writing those Harry Potter novels where Harry (or whoever the designated woobie is) gets raped and tortured by the Death. Eaters for a while, and then all his friends turn on him for a while and he is very sad. Just to get it out of her system, you know?
You can also see the ways in which she was influenced by Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles, but just takes it all so far over the top that it gets a little silly.
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Date: 2023-10-23 05:14 pm (UTC)You can also see the ways in which she was influenced by Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles, but just takes it all so far over the top that it gets a little silly.