| haxxiy said: The Way of Shadows was the meh in my honest opinion. I mean, what's up with the nonsensical attitudes (like a general being spared the murder of a king that way. WTF?), trying way too much to be gritty, love just for the sake of it, the fact Brent was unable to seamlessly fit curses in normal talk, and the inconsistent magical powers. I don't like reading about a bunch of supermen, specially when their powers show up only when it is convenient. Anyways I still bought the whole trilogy, beginner writers deserve our support (meanwhile I pirate every single game! Weee!) and felt it was worthy my time at the end, the plot was good even with all these flaws. |
He is far better at writing action scenes and keeping up the pace than he is at actually creating a great plot. I'll admit it's a little generic, but I think that it all flows pretty well and it's just easy to ready, fun and a badass trilogy to get through in a week. I've noticed that many current fantasy writers try too hard at creating overly difficult plots and lore that lead to a boring book and it's nice to see a few people breakout of the old high sci-fi and fantasy structure and try and create a different reading experience.
Patrick Rothfuss, Brent Weeks, Neil Gaiman, Sergey Lukyanenko, Joe Abercombie and Conn Iggulden are leading fiction into a whole new direction and it's seems like they are sprinting away from the standard 'Lord of the Rings' strucuture that many other writers have picked up.
Bet with Conegamer and AussieGecko that the PS3 will have more exclusives in 2011 than the Wii or 360... or something.
