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Book finished
Mar. 28th, 2010 05:31 pmDragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
It was interesting, well written, but didn't really captivate me. Given the popularity of this series, I was hoping it would grab me and give me another few months' reading, but though I did enjoy it, and I may read more later, I'm just not that interested.
Also, I can't think of anything that it excelled at. The love, relationships, characters, battles, politics, everything was really incredibly shallow in hindsight. I wasn't put off at the time because things were going along well, but now that I'm done, I realize that nothing ever really got developed. The thing that saved it at all was the pacing (it just got on with things without harping on about them, something I really appreciate having recently read both Weber and Flint) and the fact that it wasn't very long in total.
It is her first book, so maybe things got better later? Though from reading the synopsis, she wasn't exactly a young inexperienced person when this was first published.
I've now read a few reviews, and interestingly, one five-star reviewer on Amazon admits that her writing style is medicre, but apparently feels that the concept is fresh enough to save it. I don't know if I agree with that; certainly not 5 stars worth. Another says that the world is made utterly believable to him; I absolutely disagree with that. I've read a number of books where I was simply lost within the created world; this didn't come close. I don't think that either the world or the characters are all that believable, and not because they're too fantastic, but rather because they're simply two dimensional.
It was interesting, well written, but didn't really captivate me. Given the popularity of this series, I was hoping it would grab me and give me another few months' reading, but though I did enjoy it, and I may read more later, I'm just not that interested.
Also, I can't think of anything that it excelled at. The love, relationships, characters, battles, politics, everything was really incredibly shallow in hindsight. I wasn't put off at the time because things were going along well, but now that I'm done, I realize that nothing ever really got developed. The thing that saved it at all was the pacing (it just got on with things without harping on about them, something I really appreciate having recently read both Weber and Flint) and the fact that it wasn't very long in total.
It is her first book, so maybe things got better later? Though from reading the synopsis, she wasn't exactly a young inexperienced person when this was first published.
I've now read a few reviews, and interestingly, one five-star reviewer on Amazon admits that her writing style is medicre, but apparently feels that the concept is fresh enough to save it. I don't know if I agree with that; certainly not 5 stars worth. Another says that the world is made utterly believable to him; I absolutely disagree with that. I've read a number of books where I was simply lost within the created world; this didn't come close. I don't think that either the world or the characters are all that believable, and not because they're too fantastic, but rather because they're simply two dimensional.
