Mira wrote:Quest was the first new WS novel I read in a long time. Was so shocked to read it.
It was not the fantastical or even the horror aspects that bothered me.
It felt insulting...there were so many holes in the story. The flow was erratic and hodgepodge. Uneven character arcs. Some places too too obvious and other places too seemingly glaringly misleading. It was hard to connect with any of the major characters. The lostris image kept feeling like a misleading impersonation...one kept excepting fenn to turn out to be somehow maleficent...and then the new taita did not feel like taita at all. The whole endeavour felt rather 'dark' and yucky and very manipulative. It did not feel like WS at all.
Anyway...I suppose I could just say I did not like it...but I love WS...there is always an element of humanity to even his most minor and unlikeable characters...
But after thinking about it, I concluded it must after all still be him...the whole preoccupation with immortality and youth and sex...some of the themes in the book are worth addressing, and I am quite sympathetic towards those topics...love across time and space...but the handling...sorry, old boy, you dropped the ball on this one.
FanfromCan wrote:I agree. I didn't enjoy the Quest as much as I thought I would. Too much fantasy. Maybe Wilbur has read too many Harry Potter books lately.
izzyeckerslike wrote:The quest is next on my list as I have just finished Warlock, I read the first two of the series out of sequence and what confused me was I read the seventh scroll first which really got me into being a Wilbur fan and when I discovered there was a prequel I called River god so I got the book & avidly waited for the part where Taita would dam the river to enable the tomb to be excavated below water level with descriptions of all the traps that Taita would devise against future tomb robbers.
However the story describes a completely different tomb - just a minor part of the story really and not really elaborated at all so and in no way comparable the tomb excavated in modern times in the second book. What happened there? did Wilbur ever give his reasons for why he did this ?
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