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May. 19th, 2024 09:37 pmI spent the last few days reading Seanan McGuire books, Backpacking through Bedlam, Aftermarket Afterlife, and Be The Serpent.
They're good, and they have the whole weight of their series behind their explosive payoffs and revelations, but I felt sometimes that the amount of context it takes to explain all that harmed the momentum a bit. I mean there were characters on the page getting explained to and asking if it would ever stop feeling like they came in mid series, which lampshades the opposite frustration, but the level of explain necessary is difficult to make feel like you're cranking up the rollercoaster.
And yet, eventually, rushing and screaming phase arrives, which is very actiony and does build up to big consequences.
I just feel both like going back and rereading the whole of both series for nuance, and skipping quite a few of the explains next time of reading, even though they do a good job of being an explain from a particular narrator's point of view that expand on the emotional consequences of everything they're explaining.
Tricky.
They're good, and they have the whole weight of their series behind their explosive payoffs and revelations, but I felt sometimes that the amount of context it takes to explain all that harmed the momentum a bit. I mean there were characters on the page getting explained to and asking if it would ever stop feeling like they came in mid series, which lampshades the opposite frustration, but the level of explain necessary is difficult to make feel like you're cranking up the rollercoaster.
And yet, eventually, rushing and screaming phase arrives, which is very actiony and does build up to big consequences.
I just feel both like going back and rereading the whole of both series for nuance, and skipping quite a few of the explains next time of reading, even though they do a good job of being an explain from a particular narrator's point of view that expand on the emotional consequences of everything they're explaining.
Tricky.