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Battle Ground Resources [Peace Talks Spoilers]
Mira:
--- Quote from: toodeep on July 17, 2020, 02:45:41 PM ---Counting only new text, or also old? I mean, I think a good 25% of the book was summarizing what had happened in the previous 15 books, short stories, or graphic novels. Telling readers what they already knew if they have read the entire series. It really made especially the first half of the book a slog. I found myself skipping whole pages on the first read through as he dropped the same summaries of people we know or things that have happened before into this book that he dropped into previous books (or at least it sure felt that way). By the BAT Jim is going to have to decide if he is writing for readers of the series or not, because if he continues to write each book so it can be read by a new reader, its going to be 75% summaries of previous books and only 25% new text, and I'm not sure I can take that.
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Not only that but it has taken him years to get this book out! If this is how it's going to be, crank out at least one every two years...
huangjimmy108:
--- Quote from: Arjan on July 17, 2020, 11:26:08 AM ---That would avoid the unfinished feeling I have now but then the publisher would probably put pressure to keep it shorter and we would have missed some material. Now he probably added some things.
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Imagine you read book 5 and stopping just after the duel between Harry and Ortega is done. That is what it feel like to me. This book is suppose to be a single volume with dual storyline running in tandom. Similar to book 5 and book 6, only we got cut off after the end of single storyline leaving the second hanging.
Grifter:
--- Quote from: huangjimmy108 on July 17, 2020, 11:28:23 PM ---Imagine you read book 5 and stopping just after the duel between Harry and Ortega is done. That is what it feel like to me. This book is suppose to be a single volume with dual storyline running in tandom. Similar to book 5 and book 6, only we got cut off after the end of single storyline leaving the second hanging.
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Actually, percentage-wise, PT is 44.89% of the whole story. The Death Masks equivalent is the end of chapter 15, when Charity uses iodine on Harry's injuries after he has the tree house convo with Molly, and Shiro agrees to be his second and will go to the meeting with the Ramps at Mac's.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: huangjimmy108 on July 17, 2020, 11:28:23 PM ---Imagine you read book 5 and stopping just after the duel between Harry and Ortega is done. That is what it feel like to me. This book is suppose to be a single volume with dual storyline running in tandom. Similar to book 5 and book 6, only we got cut off after the end of single storyline leaving the second hanging.
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I understand and share the feeling but maybe it is better in the long run.
Grifter:
Added the Alphas to Team Chicago, since two (Andi, Marci) might ride with the Knights
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