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Recipe for the novels (well, up to book 4 so far)
1) Introduce three tortured and basically unlikable characters (Morn is a slight exception, her situation is not entirely her fault)
2) Have each one of them undergo an incredible amount of stress, physical torture, rape, betrayal and self-doubt.
3) Change motivations and situations of each to garner reader sympathy.
4) Introduce a fourth main character, son of the female lead, born insane and mentally tortured (A force grown child with the body of a sixteen year old, but his memories are his mothers)
5) Change motivations and situations of each to garner reader sympathy
6) Go to step 5 and repeat to fade
An utterly, uttely bleak and depressing future universe, changing allegiances, politics, increasingly complicated plot threads, character motivation and alliances.
Damn good stuff, although still not SF up to the standard of Iain M Banks IMHO.
Half the fun of the books comes from an interest to see what level of pain and suffering the author will inflict on them next.
Recommended for sadists and masochists both.
1) Introduce three tortured and basically unlikable characters (Morn is a slight exception, her situation is not entirely her fault)
2) Have each one of them undergo an incredible amount of stress, physical torture, rape, betrayal and self-doubt.
3) Change motivations and situations of each to garner reader sympathy.
4) Introduce a fourth main character, son of the female lead, born insane and mentally tortured (A force grown child with the body of a sixteen year old, but his memories are his mothers)
5) Change motivations and situations of each to garner reader sympathy
6) Go to step 5 and repeat to fade
An utterly, uttely bleak and depressing future universe, changing allegiances, politics, increasingly complicated plot threads, character motivation and alliances.
Damn good stuff, although still not SF up to the standard of Iain M Banks IMHO.
Half the fun of the books comes from an interest to see what level of pain and suffering the author will inflict on them next.
Recommended for sadists and masochists both.
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Recipe for the novels (well, up to book 4 so far)
1) Introduce three tortured and basically unlikable characters (Morn is a slight exception, her situation is not entirely her fault)
2) Have each one of them undergo an incredible amount of stress, physical torture, rape, betrayal and self-doubt.
3) Change motivations and situations of each to garner reader sympathy.
4) Introduce a fourth main character, son of the female lead, born insane and mentally tortured (A force grown child with the body of a sixteen year old, but his memories are his mothers)
5) Change motivations and situations of each to garner reader sympathy
6) Go to step 5 and repeat to fade
An utterly, uttely bleak and depressing future universe, changing allegiances, politics, increasingly complicated plot threads, character motivation and alliances.
Damn good stuff, although still not SF up to the standard of Iain M Banks IMHO.
Half the fun of the books comes from an interest to see what level of pain and suffering the author will inflict on them next.
Recommended for sadists and masochists both.
1) Introduce three tortured and basically unlikable characters (Morn is a slight exception, her situation is not entirely her fault)
2) Have each one of them undergo an incredible amount of stress, physical torture, rape, betrayal and self-doubt.
3) Change motivations and situations of each to garner reader sympathy.
4) Introduce a fourth main character, son of the female lead, born insane and mentally tortured (A force grown child with the body of a sixteen year old, but his memories are his mothers)
5) Change motivations and situations of each to garner reader sympathy
6) Go to step 5 and repeat to fade
An utterly, uttely bleak and depressing future universe, changing allegiances, politics, increasingly complicated plot threads, character motivation and alliances.
Damn good stuff, although still not SF up to the standard of Iain M Banks IMHO.
Half the fun of the books comes from an interest to see what level of pain and suffering the author will inflict on them next.
Recommended for sadists and masochists both.