Monday, July 26, 2010

Garth Nix: Lirael


2nd reading...This one made me angry. I forgot how Nix intertwines Lirael's story with Prince Sameth's--who may be the biggest whiner of them all.
This text was frustrating and infuriating because of all the complaining and whining and non-action. Because this is the second in the trilogy I should have expected this, but I remember being more captivated and liking this book WAY more than Sabriel the first time I read it.
Not this time. I had to skip the endless description, and I really didn't want to read the Sameth chapters. I would find myself reading and I'd check every other paragraph how much more of Sameth I'd have to read.
YUK.
I kept thinking how this could have been so much more. Lirael's experiences in the library would have been so much more awesome to read about-I know why Nix had to switch the perspectives, I just didn't like it.