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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I finished the book yesterday and while I thought it was not bad, I rated in 3.5 on Library Thing... I have decided not to read more. I expected the first book to end with some type of realization of something and show some the beginnings of "something" that would make me want to read more.
While there was "some" small bit of information about the stuff that has happened to her wrt the medallion the book ended with everything staying the same. Yes, I know many fantasy novels the main character at first denies their power/birthright/whatever and this is what Paks did.. that stuff usually happens much sooner than the last chapter of the 1st book.
BOb
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I think the problem is that the book was not written as a trilogy, but as a single book. The book breaks were artificially inserted to break it up. The second book doesn't have much of an ending either. I can understand this because the author wasn't thinking in terms of 2 mini-endings for a book that would be broken in 3.
I was more diappointed in the pathetic ending of Oath of Fealty. Elizabeth Moon clearly knew this was going to be marketed as a stand-alone book and as such it deserved more of an ending and less obviously unresolved threads.
-Marcy