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Misses its potential

Revisado: 11-25-22

I'm one of those folks who'll read something until the end just to see if the ending answers the questions or solves the problems. And I'll read a series, often longer than I should, for the same reasons.

This is one of those. I picked up the publisher's sets because I needed some long reads for a particular period, but it turns out they weren't a good match.

The stories have good potential, but I really wish the writer had a good editor for his process. Not *every* book needs to repeat a summary of *every* event that has happened to the party in the past. And that repetition is even more annoying when it happens multiple times in the same chapter. Roughly a third of the text falls in this category, or repetitions of previous thoughts by the same character, and dang it, while I want the story to have character depth, I also don't want to see the text spend unnecessary time sitting in the bathtub, so to speak. If previous history is important, add a prologue to explain it. Then focus on character depth and moving the story forward so that the text is *new*material rather than a grocery list of recaps of old events.

The problem is exacerbated by the choice of narrator for this series. There is no distinction in characters, and I'll admit that between the repetition in the text and the uniformity of the narration, I struggled to retain focus--and sometimes to know which of the characters was speaking.

Ah, well.

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