Industrial Magic
Nov. 29th, 2005 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethKelley Armstrong, Industrial Magic
has all the structural born-to-power problems that annoyed me about Dime Store Magic, but annoyed me much less, I think because this one was all within the Supernatural community, without the poor ignorant humans for comparison. As much.
Also it had a nice plot rolling along, with a mystery. Which the reader could solve from much earlier than the characters did, but because the reader only has the options the book shows, not a whole world of possibilities to work with.
I liked the characters and the way they developed, mostly.
I also liked that the 'I' character spent much more time doing and figuring out, and much less time being poor persecuted her. More comfortable.
The way characters from earlier books keep dropping in and having important roles irritates me, a bit like it annoyed me when Angel turned up with the dangly thing of destruction. more, because I haven't read the previous books and therefore don't care about the drop ins. The book hasn't worked to make us care, the characters haven't put work in, they just seem out of place. But they were used as muscle, not deus ex machina, so are entirely tolerable.
I liked the book. I'm happy I bought it.
has all the structural born-to-power problems that annoyed me about Dime Store Magic, but annoyed me much less, I think because this one was all within the Supernatural community, without the poor ignorant humans for comparison. As much.
Also it had a nice plot rolling along, with a mystery. Which the reader could solve from much earlier than the characters did, but because the reader only has the options the book shows, not a whole world of possibilities to work with.
I liked the characters and the way they developed, mostly.
I also liked that the 'I' character spent much more time doing and figuring out, and much less time being poor persecuted her. More comfortable.
The way characters from earlier books keep dropping in and having important roles irritates me, a bit like it annoyed me when Angel turned up with the dangly thing of destruction. more, because I haven't read the previous books and therefore don't care about the drop ins. The book hasn't worked to make us care, the characters haven't put work in, they just seem out of place. But they were used as muscle, not deus ex machina, so are entirely tolerable.
I liked the book. I'm happy I bought it.