There's 10?? I've admittedly lost track. It does have a decent character arc for one villain, who turns into a romantic love interest by the 10th book.
She has at least five more planned I think...she's doing 15. Each book's title is a creative twist on a different Clint Eastwood movie. So if you are a big pop culture fan...they are fun from that perspective. Eastwood did noirish Westerns and brutal noirish cop films.
(Dead Man Walking (the film he directed), Every Which Way But Loose, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, A Perfect World, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Few Dollars More, A Handful of Dollars, etc.) I've seen all of Eastwood's films so not only catch the references, but also see why she did the titles.
She's not as neat a writer as Butcher. More emotional and intutitive, less by the numbers - also there's more typos in her books. He clearly has a better editor. But I find her characters and world to be more interesting and less predictable.
I couldn't get into Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel...the footnotes killed me. Pages long is right. She mad Prachett look easy in comparison. Jonathan Strange felt too much like reading a legal or academic journal or casebook. Or consultant's technical proposal for designing a bridge. I read far too much dry material for a living, don't have the patience for it in my free time. But a lot of my friends adore it...bewildering but true. ;-)
no subject
She has at least five more planned I think...she's doing 15. Each book's title is a creative twist on a different Clint Eastwood movie.
So if you are a big pop culture fan...they are fun from that perspective. Eastwood did noirish Westerns and brutal noirish cop films.
(Dead Man Walking (the film he directed), Every Which Way But Loose,
The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, A Perfect World, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Few Dollars More, A Handful of Dollars, etc.)
I've seen all of Eastwood's films so not only catch the references, but also see why she did the titles.
She's not as neat a writer as Butcher. More emotional and intutitive, less by the numbers - also there's more typos in her books. He clearly has a better editor. But I find her characters and world to be more interesting and less predictable.
I couldn't get into Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel...the footnotes killed me. Pages long is right. She mad Prachett look easy in comparison. Jonathan Strange felt too much like reading a legal or academic journal or casebook. Or consultant's technical proposal for designing a bridge. I read far too much dry material for a living, don't have the patience for it in my free time. But a lot of my friends adore it...bewildering but true. ;-)