Saturday, February 6, 2010

In the Earth Abide the Flame

In the Earth Abides the Flame by Russell Kirkpatrick

I finished this book in the middle of January, but just hadn't gotten around to posting about it. I'm really trying to like this series since I have the third book for it already, but its making it so hard to like lately. There is a lot of landscape descriptions explaining what the land looks like and how it's so beautiful and it just gets so old.

This book has two story lines to follow, again. There is a division of the main group of character which cause two simultaneous stories to be told. I'd admire that, if the division was even. We start the book in a single group finally, but are split up again. The main bulk of the story follows the hero of the story as he goes on a quest, a smaller part of the book is devoted to making sure you didn't think the other characters had died.

It's a big story arc and I appreciate that, but I'm feeling so bogged down by descriptions and division after division of the characters from one another that its getting hard to care. So I'm taking a break from the series to hopefully enjoy the final installment of the series since I think I overdosed myself at this point.

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