| Re: Forest Mage
Forrest Mage spoilers
Just finished Forrest Mage and I seem to be slightly opposite to a lot of readers, I really struggled through Shaman's Crossing and the first half of Forrest Mage but felt it picked up a lot in the second half.
I thought the whole private school/acadamy thing had been done so many times before and the fact that Nevare continued to be blind to things that the reader and even other characters could see has been annoying (from memory didn't Fitz do some of this as well?) to the point that I was starting to really dread reading about the wedding which maybe I should put down to good writing.
From the time he left his home again I thought things started to improve, the only problem I have with Nevare's obesity is we knew from the very start that he was going to be isolated and mistreated, Hobb really seem's like beating her main characters down so in her next series I'm really, really hoping her main character isn't an outcast of any sort! But other than that I thought she did a great job writing Nevare's transformation, please just let him be over he's 'why me' phase in Renegade Mage.
I must have had Forrest Mage for almost a year before I read it (I bought it more for a friend who had enjoyed Shaman's Crossing) but I'm certainly planning on reading Renegade Mage a lot sooner. |