Re: Just started on we're alive
@truegamer, I suspected as much, both regarding rereads and regarding character deaths, but actually I enjoy series where characters are not safe. That isn't to say I like characters being killed, but the fact that characters could! die in any situation makes the hole thing feel much more urgent. I really can't stand those books or films where you know! just who is ggoing to survive, and even if the protagonist is swimming for their lives away from a pack of rabid robotic sharks, through a hurrican, with the alien space fleet firing lasers at them and captain Davy jones trying to nail them with a magical harpoon, it sort of becomes a little flat when you know that because they're the protagonist they're going to make it, .
This is one reason why I am not generally much of a fan of the super hero genre, (with some exceptions admitedly), since you gene rally know! just who is going to survive and how everything will work out.
Though interestingly enough I did recently see kickass Ii, which surprised me, though kickass I'd rather rank as one of those exceptions :d.
Getting back to we're alive Personalities are actually something I like in the series and something they've done fairly well. It'd be easy for characters like bert, michael, Pegs or rily to be very one dimentional, strong leader, loyal sidekick, compassionate damsel in distress, tough but secretly vunlerable female, yet the series is too cleverly written for that sort of thing to happen.
I think my only real crytitcism is that the series is a little too quick in places, throwing you from action sequence to action sequence without much break. The action is pretty good, but this doesn't really leave bags of time for anything else, heck, virtually nobody has speculated on how the zombi outbreak started, and though some investigat ions into the nature of things began they didn't get far due to repeating cryses.
I also felt that the series was a little too quick to say "look at the mallers, they're bad guys" since really it seemed people were snapping to judgements just on the behaviour of one psychotic girl (who's brother actually tried guarded reason). While this wasn't everyone's fault, I did rather feel things escalated a bit too quickly without enough provocation, ---- even allowing for everyone being on edge.
again, this was one thing which John wyndham got right in day of the triffids, since there, it takes time for the different styles of surviver groups to polarise, indeed one of the main antagonists at the beginning of the book is simply someone trying to do the right thing in the wrong way, ---- or maybe it's just that back in the 1950's when triffids is originally set people were less likely to shoot first and ask questions late
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Well I'm now on chapter 17, so we'll see how things go.
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