teres. (Reply)

Posted by

Two lines. Two lines?! If it was like multiple chapters, I could maybe see why someone would be reluctant to change all of that material. But there's no excuse for two(ish) lines. That's either laziness, or incompetence. ...maybe both.

Yeah, her sisters are so irrelevant it seriously would have been that easy to fix. Elder sister Annwin only appears in ONE SCENE, and all she does is yell at Axis for losing Faraday, then instantly change her tune when Axis pulls the stupid prophecy card. Then vanishes forever.

Depending on how much later the next chapters take place, I could kind of forgive him for that, considering he was just tortured, so unless he has incredibly fast healing powers, he'd probably be a little clumsy for a while after his captivity.

Funnily enough his own sorry state never comes up again

If their roles are finished for a significant amount of time, then just come up with an excuse for them to fuck off for a while! It would be so much better than having them lurking in the background desperately clawing for a shred of relevancy.

They ultimately do both: stick around for FAR too long being obnoxious and providing unfunny "comic relief", then suddenly decide to leave.

given Douglass's apparent fondness for characters being nekkid, I'm guessing this is her possible nudity kink flaring up.

Especially so since a lot of it is focused on babies and children. Shra gets naked again later on for no reason

Might there be a way to read said sporking?

There surely is! I did the entire trilogy and part of the subsequent book which proved not to be worth it so I quit. Big thanks to Teres/Pangolin for archiving everything! https://antishurtugal-reborn.dreamwidth.org/306349.html#cutid1

Yeah...I think that goes without saying at this point. *heavy sigh* You know, I'm okay with a protagonist who starts off unlikable, and then grows into a truly good person over the course of the books, but based on what everyone's been saying, he's going to go the other way, and lose any likability he might have at the beginning.

I'm afraid so. In this book he's a bullying jerk, but by the end he's straight-up 100% a villain ten times worse than the actual villains. You would not believe just how vile the things he does to other people are.