Silky wrote on Oct 7
th, 2015 at 11:55am:
I just can't get into audio books for some reason...lol Anyways I had a look on goodread and it seem people either love or hate these books.
The one's that hate it seem to be saying the protagonist is kind of paragon of perfection and excels at everything, is kind of a female mary sue. There also complaints of him being an insufferable little shit.
Kind of gives me the impression the author rolled a new dnd character and maxed out all stats right at creation.
Nah. there are certainly faults. The whole thing is told in flashbacks/remembrances. So, you could almost look at it as slightly romanticized. But, the current character telling his story is kind of a potentially broken shell of his former glorious self. (Something is wrong with him now, and I don't think you find out exactly what)
His former self is a prodigy in some respects, but not in others.
It's a pretty good story in my opinion. Although, the story line of his love interest becomes downright tedious imo. I liked the first book better than the second. But, I plan on reading the third.
EDIT: Also, the description of "sympathy" magic is pretty cool imo. In fact, the whole magic school thing is pretty neato without being silly. The descriptions of the different schools, profs, school politics, and library issues make it all kind of believable in my view.
Another kind of fun aspect, I think, is that he's always having to worry about money and making enough to cover his tuition because he's poor. Meanwhile he has some rich friends and rich enemies. So, there's some elements of class issues which kind of make the thing more mature/rich in some ways.
There's this part in the second book where he goes off and trains with these monkish sword masters and becomes all B/A with a blade. I'm not sure I liked all that or not. It seemed rushed.
I will grant, that he pretty much always succeeds in the end, so perhaps he's not flawed enough. But, it tends to be through a mixture of determination as well as skill/power. So, it's not true to say he's just a maxxed character steamrolling content.
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