Rather than start a new thread I thought I'd reactivate this one - it's the same topic and it's still me
I just finished the second trilogy in this series, called "Journey to Wudang".
After finding the first trilogy surprisingly enjoyable I have to say that I found this second trilogy surprisingly disappointing. It had all the same "it just happened" feel to the telling, but without the fun and life in the dialogue that picked up the first three books and made them work.
Too much of it was just more of the same (and LOTS of it) - to me it felt as if there was about enough story in this second trilogy to fit one book. Where the first three books felt reasonably well-thought-out and self-consistent, these next three feel very much made-up-as-she-went-along. The rules kept changing and the reasons given for the changes felt (to me) to be overly contrived and weak. Even the "surprise" ending felt weak, and the reaction of the other Celestials all out of proportion to everything we had seen so far.
And worst of all? She's still not done. The story is still not finished, this "trilogy" (that's how they're marketed) ends much like a book in the middle of a series. These are
not trilogies, they just one continuous story with no conclusion in sight yet.
As a reader that's come this far with her I feel rather abused, not sure I have it in me to bother with any more of these books if/when they ever come out. In the first books I cared about the characters, in these latter books I don't really,