Raven conclusion
Jul. 26th, 2017 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearAfter a trend of going to bed increasingly late, I decided last night I was going to make an effort to break the cycle and get to sleep at a decent hour. But then, it was 11pm and I only had 80 pages of The Raven King to go...
So, I finished the fourth volume of the Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater in five days, making my total time to read the whole set eighteen days.
The introduction of Henry and his acceptance into the group happens a lot more quickly than I remembered, but is evidently very effective, as he is certainly my favourite character at various stages in the book. I love the Laumoniers as the added bad guys (I also really like the way the bad guys mostly destroy each other), and the various revelations about the Lynch family are interesting.
I was particularly moved by the line: "Easier to believe he was a gallant ship tossed by fate, than captain it himself." Good lesson for me at the moment...
But the climax and ultimate conclusion feel somehow anti-climactic, and once again left me very much wanting more from these books. I love the world, and I love the characters, and I feel that some of them are rather short-changed by the ending. I wanted Noah to have a more significant conclusion to his journey. I just wanted more Ronan/Adam (though I guess I can find that in fanfiction whenever I want). I wanted something more for Maura and Mr Gray. It all just feels a bit abrupt, and as if a lot of the characters just disappear at certain points and don't get an ending.
Still, overall, it's a marvellous story, and I've very much enjoyed diving back into it over the last three weeks.
I have to dedicate myself to a different fandom for the next month or so - but it will be interesting to see if I gravitate back towards this one afterwards or not.
So, I finished the fourth volume of the Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater in five days, making my total time to read the whole set eighteen days.
The introduction of Henry and his acceptance into the group happens a lot more quickly than I remembered, but is evidently very effective, as he is certainly my favourite character at various stages in the book. I love the Laumoniers as the added bad guys (I also really like the way the bad guys mostly destroy each other), and the various revelations about the Lynch family are interesting.
I was particularly moved by the line: "Easier to believe he was a gallant ship tossed by fate, than captain it himself." Good lesson for me at the moment...
But the climax and ultimate conclusion feel somehow anti-climactic, and once again left me very much wanting more from these books. I love the world, and I love the characters, and I feel that some of them are rather short-changed by the ending. I wanted Noah to have a more significant conclusion to his journey. I just wanted more Ronan/Adam (though I guess I can find that in fanfiction whenever I want). I wanted something more for Maura and Mr Gray. It all just feels a bit abrupt, and as if a lot of the characters just disappear at certain points and don't get an ending.
Still, overall, it's a marvellous story, and I've very much enjoyed diving back into it over the last three weeks.
I have to dedicate myself to a different fandom for the next month or so - but it will be interesting to see if I gravitate back towards this one afterwards or not.
