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Shadows Return
Jun. 30th, 2008 05:40 amThere are several ginormous moths siphoning kitchen light from the safety of our backdoor, by ginormous I mean, I think Volkswagen may be marketing a new line.
I finished my new copy of Shadows Return, Lynn Flewelling's fourth Nightrunner book.
I'm disappointed and satisfied, I'm like a crescent roll of conflicting emotions.
- There's the delicious flaky crust, which is the more romantic moments between the main characters.
- There's the burnt bottom, unless you enjoy that sort of thing and I don't, which is a surprising lack of detail compared to the first three books. I felt like I was reading an intro to a much longer novel. IE "Characters are traveling, characters are kidnapped, characters escape to warn people. The end." *Blink* Where's the rest. This is not altogether a bad thing since I would buy Lynn Flewelling's post-it notes, if she were to publish them. (Oh and the creepy dragon *thing is really cute, I want one. As a pet.) *I'm not going to elaborate since this is a spoiler free post.
- There's the gooey middle bit, which is the fact that Seregil has hair well below his shoulders, despite that fact that it's highly impractical for a thief to have a gorgeous mane of flowing dark "grab a-hold and strangle" trailing behind him like a streamer in the night. I would like to sincerely thank Lynn for ignoring this impracticality.
- There's the buttery goodness, which is to say I was really scared of the possibility of mpreg by the summery on the back of the book, however the situation is handled in a unique and non-nausea inducing way that does not involve any sort of human orifices or antacid use on the part of the reader.
4/5
I finished my new copy of Shadows Return, Lynn Flewelling's fourth Nightrunner book.
I'm disappointed and satisfied, I'm like a crescent roll of conflicting emotions.
- There's the delicious flaky crust, which is the more romantic moments between the main characters.
- There's the burnt bottom, unless you enjoy that sort of thing and I don't, which is a surprising lack of detail compared to the first three books. I felt like I was reading an intro to a much longer novel. IE "Characters are traveling, characters are kidnapped, characters escape to warn people. The end." *Blink* Where's the rest. This is not altogether a bad thing since I would buy Lynn Flewelling's post-it notes, if she were to publish them. (Oh and the creepy dragon *thing is really cute, I want one. As a pet.) *I'm not going to elaborate since this is a spoiler free post.
- There's the gooey middle bit, which is the fact that Seregil has hair well below his shoulders, despite that fact that it's highly impractical for a thief to have a gorgeous mane of flowing dark "grab a-hold and strangle" trailing behind him like a streamer in the night. I would like to sincerely thank Lynn for ignoring this impracticality.
- There's the buttery goodness, which is to say I was really scared of the possibility of mpreg by the summery on the back of the book, however the situation is handled in a unique and non-nausea inducing way that does not involve any sort of human orifices or antacid use on the part of the reader.
4/5
