{"id":401,"date":"2007-07-12T20:24:55","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T03:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=401"},"modified":"2021-06-02T19:19:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T23:19:15","slug":"destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/401","title":{"rendered":"Destiny"},"content":{"rendered":"

Destiny<\/em> (2001) Elizabeth Haydon<\/a>
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\"Destiny\"<\/a>After reading Rhapsody<\/em> and Prophecy<\/em> I wanted to finish re-reading the series and the story, but I just wasn’t thrilled about reading more about Rhapsody. So I put Destiny<\/em> in my pocket as my waiting and transportation book. Unfortunately, an 850 page book is large and unwieldy, and after almost two months of lugging it around, I decided to just bite the bullet and finish reading the damned thing.<\/p>\n

Which pretty much sums up my feeling for the last two books of this series: I just wanted to finish the damned thing.<\/p>\n

The frustrating thing is that I really like the tale, and I love Achmed and Grunthor. Unfortunately, Rhapsody herself started to grate on my nerves somewhere in the second book, and by the third book I found myself skimming the long passages that were solely about her and how wonderful and self-sacrificing and beautiful and perfect she was. Yes, she had lots of horrible things happen to her, but I just didn’t find her interesting the way I found Achmed and Grunthor interesting. Especially Achmed. He managed to remain both an enigma and a bastard throughout the series, and as such as completely fascinating. I wanted to know more about his powers and his background but instead continued to get tiny hints about his past and large amounts of Rhapsody and Ashe pining for each other.<\/p>\n

Whatever.<\/p>\n

So as much as I liked the tale and the world building and secondary characters, I would have enjoyed the story much more if it had been told from Achmed or Grunthors point of view.<\/p>\n

I also would have preferred it if it had about about 300 pages shorter. There really is such a thing as too much description.
\nRating: 5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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