#yes i listen to the audiobooks.... rainer strecker youre my only ho

[jadegoyl]

the alder elves as villains and the increasing involvement of all of these immortal beings in the plot of golden yarn were already bothering me on my first listen but i only recently realised why it was so disappointing to me. in the first two books, everything has its rules and its price. the consequences to the characters’ actions felt real and carried actual weight. the immmortals, however, seem to stand above these rules somewhat. i already disliked the introduction of miranda, because i find that the more grand and important you push your story to be, the more disappointing the ending tends to be. (also, can we get a female character that is not at one point or another involved in a love triangle? thanks!)

the worst thing for me personally about the alder elves was the fact that Spieler (i honest to god hope that his english name isnt ‘player’) was revealed to have orchestrated some of the events that led the characters to where they are in golden yarn. which is so frustrating, because few things are as hard as creating characters that feel like they have actual agency and arent just strung along by the plot. also, part of the appeal, i suppose, is that in the first two books, jacob and will are just ordinary people to whom extraordinary things have happened, and not because they are the distant relatives of some elusive personalities (read: chosen ones). which could also be counted towards the ‘too grand’ point i made above.

these books mean a lot to me, so please dont assume im complaining for complaining’s sake. its just sad to see the things that i loved about the first books being overwritten by the new ones.