/lit/ - Literature

Read Nolyn today. Pretty bad, all told. Pacing is fucked, story should have taken place over at least a year but it's all compressed into two weeks. I legitimately struggle to take seriously that our 800 year old half elf protagonists can be this fucking ignorant and incompetent. The whole thing is apparently mostly worldbuilding for some other series the author wrote that I've never read, and it feels like it. So many small moments that feel like bizarre tangents, until you remember, oh yeah this must be another reference to some landmark in a different book. There was approximately one twist I was predicting that I thought was going to be pretty clever, but it never actually panned out. In the afterword, the author's wife reveals I was right about the twist in the original script, but she didn't like it and convinced him to write it out. 4/10 for me, lads.