One thing I really liked in Eragon was the limitations on his power.
Remember how in book one failing a spell meant death "without exception", as Brom claimed? And then that limitation just magically disappeared at some point and was never mentioned again.
CP is comfortable with brutality and scavenger hunts but none of the dire situations that make me ache for characters in better plotted stories.
It's so boring and irritating. There isn't even any sense of a dire situation when Nas is being tortured because CP refuses to take the gloves off and actually make the torture stick. Real torture would have reduced her to a shadow of her former self, but instead she gets all these copouts (toilet breaks! A magic spell which makes the torture painless!) and just gets over the whole ordeal after a good night's sleep and a chat with Elva. Come on.
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Date: 2022-03-14 06:48 am (UTC)Remember how in book one failing a spell meant death "without exception", as Brom claimed? And then that limitation just magically disappeared at some point and was never mentioned again.
It's so boring and irritating. There isn't even any sense of a dire situation when Nas is being tortured because CP refuses to take the gloves off and actually make the torture stick. Real torture would have reduced her to a shadow of her former self, but instead she gets all these copouts (toilet breaks! A magic spell which makes the torture painless!) and just gets over the whole ordeal after a good night's sleep and a chat with Elva. Come on.