Heh. Read this last night and was impressed. I see something of your issue with the prose, I was struck by just how effective it was: rather than flat, but I heard it as terse -- it's the mechanism that lets her communicate an astonishing amount of information very briefly. This is most obvious during the background infodumps, but continued throughout the novel.
Now, if Cashore can learn how to combine taut with her terse, she'll have a formidable tool in her writing kit. Especially she writes more books that are Megan Whalen Turner minus those parts that are Dorothy Dunnett.
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Date: 2009-01-28 03:24 pm (UTC)Now, if Cashore can learn how to combine taut with her terse, she'll have a formidable tool in her writing kit. Especially she writes more books that are Megan Whalen Turner minus those parts that are Dorothy Dunnett.
---L.