Warrior & Witch

[jmc_bks]

I'm pretty much agreeing with Keishon and May: Warrior & Witch has an excellent idea at its heart, but the construction of the book is lacking. I'm about 2/3 of the way through the book, and I'm about to give up. If I could just read the chapters following Mirage/Miryo, which are full of action, I'd be okay. But that's only half the story; the other half is politics, following the POV of the Void Prime (whose name escapes me right now)...and it is slow and boring as hell. And there are still gaps that are never explained, like how Mirage survived, and how exactly the split souls work. Maybe they'll be explained in the future, but I'm not hanging around for a third book. The first book's weaknesses I could forgive, because it was a debut novel, but they needed to be cleaned up for the second and weren't. Brennan could use a really good critique group and an editor to crack the whip.

Comments

[miladyinsanity.livejournal.com]

I believe it's a duology, that originally there was only Doppelganger and split because the publisher wanted 2 books.

Sorry you had to read a clunker.

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

It's my own fault -- I loved the cover of W&W. Just a reminder of the old saw about judging a book by its cover.

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

Second thought -- seemed like there was an awful lot left hanging. I guess it's okay to leave it that way, it just seemed like there was enough material for another book.