I've heard the feedback that the slavefic in Captive Prince is the wrong kind of slavefic from another friend, who's a fan of the genre (done right), but since it's not my thing, I'm not sure I'd be able to tell the right kind of slavefic from the wrong kind of slavefic :P
It feels lived in, if you know what I mean, and the characters still have lives when they're not on screen.
Yes, I like that about the books. Elantra really does have a feel of a fantasy metropolis, which is one of my favorite tropes when it's done right (Ankh-Morpork, Adrilankha, Camorr). The thing that frustrates me is the narration/prose, which feels very under-edited to me -- too many asides and "verbal" tics that don't add up to a compelling sense of character for me and just irritate me as a reader, because I feel like I'm hacking through an overgrown path instead of gliding smoothly through the narration. A friend who has spent some time with the author says Michelle Sagara talks like that, too, so it's not intentional artifice, apparently, but I do find it interferes with my enjoyment of the story, to a greater or lesser degree.
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It feels lived in, if you know what I mean, and the characters still have lives when they're not on screen.
Yes, I like that about the books. Elantra really does have a feel of a fantasy metropolis, which is one of my favorite tropes when it's done right (Ankh-Morpork, Adrilankha, Camorr). The thing that frustrates me is the narration/prose, which feels very under-edited to me -- too many asides and "verbal" tics that don't add up to a compelling sense of character for me and just irritate me as a reader, because I feel like I'm hacking through an overgrown path instead of gliding smoothly through the narration. A friend who has spent some time with the author says Michelle Sagara talks like that, too, so it's not intentional artifice, apparently, but I do find it interferes with my enjoyment of the story, to a greater or lesser degree.