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I got out of the public library today something called Passion Play: merchants, arranged marriages, ancient magic, spunky and desperate heroine, etc.
One or two chapters in produced the following reactions:
1) I spend way too much energy mentally sourcing place and people-names by European language/cultural group in these kinds of novels. Though the Kievan/central European medieval setting is a nice change of pace, I suppose.
2) Banter must be really hard to write well. Because most of the book is tolerably competent, but the banter is really awful.
3) I can't decide whether having The Ancient Language Of The Old Ones turn out to be ye archaickly spellt GERMAN is ridiculous or a nice change of pace (at least it's not slightly altered Latin?) I'm leaning toward ridiculous.
4) I haven't read enough yet to make a recommendation or a disrecommendation.
One or two chapters in produced the following reactions:
1) I spend way too much energy mentally sourcing place and people-names by European language/cultural group in these kinds of novels. Though the Kievan/central European medieval setting is a nice change of pace, I suppose.
2) Banter must be really hard to write well. Because most of the book is tolerably competent, but the banter is really awful.
3) I can't decide whether having The Ancient Language Of The Old Ones turn out to be ye archaickly spellt GERMAN is ridiculous or a nice change of pace (at least it's not slightly altered Latin?) I'm leaning toward ridiculous.
4) I haven't read enough yet to make a recommendation or a disrecommendation.
