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outerspace-iiinnerspace · 9 months ago

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I haven't even finished rereading the first book so maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about but I feel like half the problems with the saga of seven suns have to do with the fact that it's split across an incredibly wide but shallow set of povs, Which sucks because that is also the best part of the series!!

I love getting multiple views on events, looking thru the eyes of characters who aren't going to be relevant in 20 pages, seeing the convoluted political stuff from all sides, and like so much more but the fact the story is SO big yet spread SO thin makes it shallow in a really disappointing way. You could make a whole seven book series out of JUST Raymond and Basil, or JUST the Ildiran stuff or JUST Margaret and co or Rlinda. I want the spacefaring gourmand adventures of Rlinda Kett so bad. Instead you get these little glimpses and altogether these glimpses do make up a really complex and exciting story, and I wouldn't even want to cut it down much because how far it sprawls is a huge part of the appeal.

But! At least this means we don't have to spend chapters and chapters with like, General Lanyan or whoever.

#the other problems are race/gender related #and that fact that none of those povs are from the hydrogues #and the lack of interest in the hydrogues as anything but a plot device + villians even when the wentals etc #get expanded later #the wentals aren't in the first book this based on my memories of later stuff #this is colored slightly because i know the hydrogues get done dirty a couple books from now but like eughhhh #not that they haven't been done dirty already but at this point theyre so mysterious its hard to draw conclusions except that the hansa suc

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