I didn't know it was first person when I bought it. If I had known, I wouldn't have bought it at all because I...do not like first person at ALL. I only really tolerate it in urban fantasy novels because I have a weakness for those and they don't seem to come in any other flavor.
But yeah, no, I read it, the first 3 pages were pretentious as all get out, it just got *more* pretentious and now I am damn sick of reading the same old fantasy over and over and over again. Brilliant (boy) child, grows up to be a marvel at everything, falls in love with a girl who is somehow at the heart of what goes horribly wrong, kills a king, and also there are elves/fae/what-have-you. CUT IT OUT, YOU GUYS. I would be afraid of spoiling it for you, but srsly, I could be talking about like ninety bazillion books with that. If it's not that book, it's prophecy born (boy) child, some great dark evil, big giant battle for the soul of the world. Boo.
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Date: 2008-07-06 02:13 am (UTC)But yeah, no, I read it, the first 3 pages were pretentious as all get out, it just got *more* pretentious and now I am damn sick of reading the same old fantasy over and over and over again. Brilliant (boy) child, grows up to be a marvel at everything, falls in love with a girl who is somehow at the heart of what goes horribly wrong, kills a king, and also there are elves/fae/what-have-you. CUT IT OUT, YOU GUYS. I would be afraid of spoiling it for you, but srsly, I could be talking about like ninety bazillion books with that. If it's not that book, it's prophecy born (boy) child, some great dark evil, big giant battle for the soul of the world. Boo.