Disclaimer: I stopped paying attention to this book somewhere around the end of Part 1. I haven’t had the time or inclination to read any further because there’s just so little to hold the interest.
Don't blame you; pretty much the same thing happened to me, except I have been reading the sporks. I had intended to read the entire book and write up a review, but I just. Can't. Do it. It's so BORING.
Falconi tells Kira to stay out of sight, even though he gave her a gun, because it “isn’t [her] area of expertise”. Well neither is xenobiology, but she still held a steady job in that.
Zing! And just wait until you see how fast she gets used to slaughtering people en masse. (Spoilers: Disturbingly fast. It's literally the exact same thing as what happened with Eragon, complete with the lack of any transitional period).
I swear, Paolini is the worst at coming up with names. What, nine years of time to develop his story and build his world, and the best he could do was “jellies” and “soft blade”? Please.
Yeah well UR just JELLY about his superior talent!!1
(C'mon, somebody had to make that joke eventually).
Wait, what the hell? Can someone else confirm if Kira even once ever thinks about things in terms of video games, or mentions having played video games, or makes any other reference at all that video games even exist, let alone that she plays them enough to think in these terms? This just seems to come out of nowhere, almost like it was taken from a better and more famous science fiction book.
It's rather fitting in any case given just how much the ensuing fight scene is written like a video game. I'd better start stocking up on HALO gifs right now.
Fourth, Kira’s growing dependency on the Soft Blade is psychologically disturbing.
It really is. It's incredibly creepy and off-putting just how fast she goes from wanting it off her to thinking of it as a tool to be used for her own purposes, to the point that it's now suddenly a personal privilege which she alone is entitled to have. In fact not long after this she starts getting WORRIED that the jellies or whoever might "strip her of the Soft Blade" and how she'll be all incomplete without it, etc. What the actual fuck.
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Date: 2020-11-29 02:03 am (UTC)Don't blame you; pretty much the same thing happened to me, except I have been reading the sporks. I had intended to read the entire book and write up a review, but I just. Can't. Do it. It's so BORING.
Zing! And just wait until you see how fast she gets used to slaughtering people en masse. (Spoilers: Disturbingly fast. It's literally the exact same thing as what happened with Eragon, complete with the lack of any transitional period).
Yeah well UR just JELLY about his superior talent!!1
(C'mon, somebody had to make that joke eventually).
It's rather fitting in any case given just how much the ensuing fight scene is written like a video game. I'd better start stocking up on HALO gifs right now.
It really is. It's incredibly creepy and off-putting just how fast she goes from wanting it off her to thinking of it as a tool to be used for her own purposes, to the point that it's now suddenly a personal privilege which she alone is entitled to have. In fact not long after this she starts getting WORRIED that the jellies or whoever might "strip her of the Soft Blade" and how she'll be all incomplete without it, etc. What the actual fuck.