I feel like I just skimmed a whole volume or something. We just bounced from one thing to the next. Especially when it comes to the resolution with that (now ex-) boyfriend. He made some vague statement and then we hand waved our way through several important points.
This is not giving me a good feeling going forward. A mystery story really relies on how things are revealed to the reader, and this series has almost stopped trying to make it engaging. The first couple chapters were done so well, but I get the feeling that they hadn’t really worked out the story past that point.
Yeah, I’m not sure what’s going on here, but it’s not good. For whatever reason, the author is revealing too many disparate plot points too quickly.
It makes sense that they don’t (yet) add up to reveal the secrets behind everything - that’s just a fundamental part of how mysteries work.
But they have to be connected in some way and they have to be revealed at a reasonable pace and just as part of the unfolding story, so that everything flows naturally, and that’s not what’s happening.
I still have hope for it, and if nothing else, the central mysteries are still intriguing. I just really hope it settles down.
I feel like I just skimmed a whole volume or something. We just bounced from one thing to the next. Especially when it comes to the resolution with that (now ex-) boyfriend. He made some vague statement and then we hand waved our way through several important points.
This is not giving me a good feeling going forward. A mystery story really relies on how things are revealed to the reader, and this series has almost stopped trying to make it engaging. The first couple chapters were done so well, but I get the feeling that they hadn’t really worked out the story past that point.
Yeah, I’m not sure what’s going on here, but it’s not good. For whatever reason, the author is revealing too many disparate plot points too quickly.
It makes sense that they don’t (yet) add up to reveal the secrets behind everything - that’s just a fundamental part of how mysteries work.
But they have to be connected in some way and they have to be revealed at a reasonable pace and just as part of the unfolding story, so that everything flows naturally, and that’s not what’s happening.
I still have hope for it, and if nothing else, the central mysteries are still intriguing. I just really hope it settles down.