The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Anyone else... disappointed? [PT/BG spoilers]
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Mira on October 07, 2020, 12:39:58 PM ---I know the original Classic Trek story well, and while I liked it well enough, it was never one of my favorites. So I never could get excited in anticipation that far out.
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I think it's mostly going to bear a superficial resemblance to the Trek story. Eye patches and goatees. The way Jim described it, Evil Harry doesn't switch places with the Harrys he abducts, he adducts more than one Harry, and it's not an entirely different world. It's the exact same world except for a single different Choice Harry made toward the end of GP. It really sounds much more like an It's a Wonderful Life kind of story than a Mirror, Mirror story.
To your point about speculation ruining stories, I tend to agree. If people get overly invested in their own idea of where the story should go, they can end up greatly disappointed. Or if they just have better ideas than the author.
spiritofair:
I enjoyed both books, but I have to agree with the "too much" part of the battle descriptions. Thing is, I don't know how you don't write what Jim wrote. How does he not include something about each of the characters? He has so many characters involved, and he kind of HAD to write something about each of them. So, never ending battle.
The Battle of the Bean came off as a bit ridiculous, with too many characters to take a look at, and none of them getting enough focus. This is a limitation of the first person POV writing style. I don't know if it's possible to write about a battle involving so many amazing characters from a first person POV. By it's very nature, it ends up being disjointed and "vignetty".
I think Jim was in a trap of his own making. Too many beloved characters that he HAD to write something about, and not enough about any of them.
I wish we had seen more of the Archive. As far as I can tell, Harry never even talked to her.
Drakul and the Black Court were a distraction, but I suppose it is setting up stuff for the future. That is really the only explanation. Those pages would have been far better served focusing on further developing other characters or Harry's relationship with them.
Overall, I enjoyed it, but I really do think that this series cannot support this many characters in one book. I look forward to Mirror Mirror where the number of characters involved is necessarily cut way back.
Mira:
--- Quote ---I think Jim was in a trap of his own making. Too many beloved characters that he HAD to write something about, and not enough about any of them.
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Yup, the kitchen sink feel to it, plus the added traps of the huge battles, they take up many pages and leave little room for anything else.
--- Quote ---Drakul and the Black Court were a distraction, but I suppose it is setting up stuff for the future. That is really the only explanation. Those pages would have been far better served focusing on further developing other characters or Harry's relationship with them.
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I felt that way as well, and over all I am enjoying the books. I liked Peace Talks much more on the second read.
angus:
I'm very disappointed, too. I've been a big fan of the books for many years and I got very little of what I love about the series from Peace Talks and Battleground. I liked the snarky PI stories. I don't like endless descriptions of a battle. I want character development and plot. One of the things I have enjoyed previously, is that JB has gone his own way and given me plot twists and characters that I didn't see coming. This time I feel he had a tick list of fan favourites to include and it took the novelty away (although I did enjoy one or two of the Marcone fan fic references). I found some of the scenes repetitive, too. Not another fight in the harbour! I hope he explains in the next book why Marcone has taken up a coin, because I find that hard to accept given what's happened previously between Marcone and the Denarians.I didn't feel that these books were fun. I'd like to see both of them combined into one with the word count halved. I have read and re-read the Dresden Files so many times and I'm really not sure if I will every re-read these two.
Dina:
That happened to me with GS and CD, I did not reread them, which was bad because I did not remember some things that were important for these new books. Luckily I loves SG. I suspect next book will be quite different in tone, so don't lose hope :).
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