Book: Shotgun Sorceress
Jan. 30th, 2011 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amanda_lodden4. Shotgun Sorceress by Lucy Snyder
Have you ever had one of those moments when you realize that multiple people you know all know a particular person, and you're not entirely sure how it happened? I knew that M and Lucy Snyder went to Clarion together, but until I read the acknowledgements, I didn't fully understand that D & T also know Ms Snyder in more than a "yes, she's one of my favorite authors" way. It was driven home later when a character was given D & T's last name, which I found a tad bit jarring. I suspect others, people who don't know D & T nor their last name, might not find it so weird.
You may recall that I really liked the first book in this series. I like this one as well, but it's a lot less stand-alone. For the most part, I'm okay with that-- I really don't need the typical first chapter that explains what the characters did in the books before-- but the ending was slightly less satisfactory because this book sets up the third book, in a very obvious manner. What's irritating to me is that it doesn't need to; if the last half-page were left off, this book would have a perfectly fine ending, and the last half-page would work pretty well as the opening of the third book. (Well, with a slight re-hash of what happened in this book as a refresher.)
I still highly recommend reading it, though.
Have you ever had one of those moments when you realize that multiple people you know all know a particular person, and you're not entirely sure how it happened? I knew that M and Lucy Snyder went to Clarion together, but until I read the acknowledgements, I didn't fully understand that D & T also know Ms Snyder in more than a "yes, she's one of my favorite authors" way. It was driven home later when a character was given D & T's last name, which I found a tad bit jarring. I suspect others, people who don't know D & T nor their last name, might not find it so weird.
You may recall that I really liked the first book in this series. I like this one as well, but it's a lot less stand-alone. For the most part, I'm okay with that-- I really don't need the typical first chapter that explains what the characters did in the books before-- but the ending was slightly less satisfactory because this book sets up the third book, in a very obvious manner. What's irritating to me is that it doesn't need to; if the last half-page were left off, this book would have a perfectly fine ending, and the last half-page would work pretty well as the opening of the third book. (Well, with a slight re-hash of what happened in this book as a refresher.)
I still highly recommend reading it, though.
