Morning Star

[the_faery_queen]

so i FINALLY brought it, and to me, its bizzare. not because of the plot, im not far in enough for that, but ebcause of the style. not the first person, but how BAD it is! sorry. i compare it to legend, or even knights of dark renown, all earlier books, (and the latter set in the same world) and they are far superior. characterisation is better, the writing is better.

for me, i have counted three, suddenlys, in the first 100 page or so. im not really a fan of when anyone says, and suddenly, this happened. it seems a bit forced excitement and rather childish to me!

i find his characterisation of the anti hero, the jarek person, to just be a bit too ott, trying to make him a likeable cad? *shrug* he just seems an annoying conceited *insert word* to me. the main character, the bard, he's very wooden. even tho he's looking back, describing stuff that happened, he has a lack of passion, or emotion, even tho he seems to think he has it.

i dunno. its really not up there with his other stuff and tho i will stick with it cos its an easy enough read, i find it way below his usual standards for writing. not on plot, but just on writing.

any thoughts?

[cairnsbythesea]

Most male writer find it difficult to make a warrior heroine. It's not simply a case of replacing the male hero with a female. Mr. Gemmel is mush older now, married, with children. I would like him to try again now that he has the experience and does not require the money from his books to simple keep eating. I agree with you, Morning star, also in my oppion (can't spell!) was his least grabbing novel. With the Queen in his white Wolf, he was much closer. Driven, the female is much deadlier than the male. loyal and will whimper at little. That's not easy, even yet, for some to swallow. (flutter, fluter, my Hero! still seems in vogue fantasy wise.)

[the_faery_queen]

im not sure some of that made sense to what i was saying! morning star is meant to be based on robin hood (its pretty obvious with the archery contest for no apparant reason) and the hero, apparantly, on errol flyn who played hood.

but usually i find he does male characters really well, even the minor ones have some element of warmth and interest about them. this one doesn't. its just all bla. everyone is bla. its readable but its not interesting.

[cairnsbythesea]

Trust me to get Morning Star and IronHand daughter mixed up! Only excuse is that it was very late here. Sorry.

[the_faery_queen]

hehe that's fine

[Silent Speaker]

Faery_Queen, I read it a couple of months ago and it felt like one of those in-flight "fillers" or something (though I suppose that isn't so fair). Probably the only thing that stuck in my mind was the plot, I don't think the story itself was too bad!
(I found however that after reading I was forgetting all the bad aspects of the novel, so now all I'm left with is the vague idea that "Morningstar? Meh, it was alright." )

[the_faery_queen]

yeah, thats how i am seeing it now. its ok, nothing special

[the_faery_queen]

so i finished it, and tho i can say the plot was still weak and the vampoire kings underdone as an element i LOVED the time travel romantic thing of it. i thought that was great. just a shame it was in that book really!