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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
In the third book, still told from her perspective, she is important, but there is no longer a central character of the events that are occurring in the world.
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I think that was one of the things that just irritated me so much about the third book (more so than who lives/dies/ends up with who etc.). It would be like writing a single novel, writing the first two thirds of it in one style, and then writing the last third completely differently. Some might argue it is a bold and creative approach. For me (and others it seems) it completely destroyed all the momentum and interest built up by the first two books.
Having set a baseline of a certain style of book in the first two which for many people were addictively successful, the final book just was a massive anti-climax. The first two books combined an entertaining action read with a backstory of a world ready for a revolution. They led the reader to wondering how in the third book the author was going to take these characters and bring them together with a tiger by the tail of "changing the world". She wrote herself into a corner with that - if you spend two books putting great emphasis on how iconic these characters have become to some people and sacrifices others made in the cause of change, the third had no choice but to see it through with some sort of epic "overthrow of the empire".
What transpired instead was a giant cop-out. Perhaps she couldn't figure out how to write the characters into such an ending (which is quite understandable given where the characters began from). Instead we end up with something that for 2/3rds is just repetitive dullness, with all the plot that would move the story forward relegated to "here's what happened while you were away" type of snippets. I see some people think the 3rd book is quite "cleverly" about the mental reaction to what the characters went through. However as I said above it is completely out of pace and style with the first two books - you open it expecting a continuation of what has come before and instead get something that looks like it was written by a different author.
It just felt like a mish-mash of a book, as someone else said above perhaps deadlines got in the way. There were a few silly dead-ends in there like this...
which hint that perhaps she had other ideas in mind but they didn't make the final cut.
As I said on another thread somewhere about the movie, Hollywood are going to have to be very creative to spin this out into four movies. You are not going to have an entertaining movie if the grand revolution consists of people wandering into a number of conversations and telling what happened after the event now, are you? Who knows, maybe they will actually do a better job than the author did... or not.
