Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2012 13:32:43 GMT -8
So, I think we all maybe have those guilty pleasure books, or a book that we know is poorly written but we still love it, or a book that everyone else dislikes but still holds a special place in your heart.
For me, it would be Song in the Silence. Before I go on, let me just make it extra clear that I LOVE this book! It's a fantastic fantasy novel and also the first book in a very good trilogy. The story has many great qualities about it, a strong female main character, an interesting plot, it's one of my favorite genres (Fantasy), the writing is simply beautiful, and much more.
However, after giving it another look through (it's been a few years since I've read it) I realized that...there is something very bad about the plot, which is, inevitably, something that becomes kind of Mary-Sue-ish for the main character.
Basically, this is what happens. The main character of this book falls in love with a dragon. I know, sounds pretty strange, right? Well, she goes to this exotic island that's home to the dragons, she meets one, they speak telepathically, and after becoming friends they fall genuinely in love with one another's minds and souls, but they cannot physically be together for obvious reasons.
Well, conveniently enough, by the end of the book and after some epic battle and all that jazz, this dragon gets turned into human sexy eye-candy, and he and the main character can finally be together at long last!
For a lot of people, this would be a complete turn-off and they'd hate the book without second thought. For me, as bad as I realize that it is, the good qualities of this book still make up for that setback. Plus, the romance loving fangirl in me that is a total sucker for happy endings still loves everything about this book even though I know that kind of stuff is unrealistic and doesn't necessarily qualify as good writing in most people's eyes.
Okay, enough of my rambling xD Anyone else got a book like this?
For me, it would be Song in the Silence. Before I go on, let me just make it extra clear that I LOVE this book! It's a fantastic fantasy novel and also the first book in a very good trilogy. The story has many great qualities about it, a strong female main character, an interesting plot, it's one of my favorite genres (Fantasy), the writing is simply beautiful, and much more.
However, after giving it another look through (it's been a few years since I've read it) I realized that...there is something very bad about the plot, which is, inevitably, something that becomes kind of Mary-Sue-ish for the main character.
Basically, this is what happens. The main character of this book falls in love with a dragon. I know, sounds pretty strange, right? Well, she goes to this exotic island that's home to the dragons, she meets one, they speak telepathically, and after becoming friends they fall genuinely in love with one another's minds and souls, but they cannot physically be together for obvious reasons.
Well, conveniently enough, by the end of the book and after some epic battle and all that jazz, this dragon gets turned into human sexy eye-candy, and he and the main character can finally be together at long last!
For a lot of people, this would be a complete turn-off and they'd hate the book without second thought. For me, as bad as I realize that it is, the good qualities of this book still make up for that setback. Plus, the romance loving fangirl in me that is a total sucker for happy endings still loves everything about this book even though I know that kind of stuff is unrealistic and doesn't necessarily qualify as good writing in most people's eyes.
Okay, enough of my rambling xD Anyone else got a book like this?