Right, that's it, I'm going to the library tomorrow. This is my goal for the day. Think the main reason is that I've been waiting for a nice day to walk down there, but it just hasn't come. However, tomorrow is going to be 29 *salivates* X)~
So yeah, I have four books I need to borrow and read, preferably before uni starts, those being TTT (can't read our copy cos Mum is), the final book in the Ramses series by Christian Jacq (I finished the fourth one about this time last year), the one Cassie's recommended and that I've momentarily forgotten the name of, but I have it written down so all is good, and~ the final book in the Llandor trilogy, cos I've just finished the second one last night.
Rediscovered those books during my massive cleanup of my room. I got them from the school library when they were chucking out all these old and relatively scrappy books, so a friend and I got a few of them. Unfortunately didn't have the full series of that.
To begin with, I wasn't really sure I liked it. 'Tis about three final year Pommy students who end up in this fantasy land of Llandor, and of course the Big Nasty Dude wants to find them.
Anyway, yus, the three main characters, as well as the supporting ones, just aren't particularly strong. I mean, you can see the author's trying to make you sympathise with them, but I just... can't. Roderick was a fat, geeky, generally hated boy at school until they ended up in Llandor, at which point he had to walk a lot~ and so is now not so fat, and all the Llandorians (Oo) luv him. Craig is a bastid and picked on Craig at school, and Carrie was his friend but has basically switched sides. But they're just not strong characters.
And then there's Janine, aka Mary Sue. She's a blond, blue-eyed half-elf half-human girl. Need I go further? No, dun think so.
However~ about halfway through the first book Kadmon rocked up, and he's definitely the saving grace, and I think the soul reason for me wanting to borrow the last book. You just don't know if he's evil or not, and I love characters with a bit of evil in them. Plus he can make bloo fire, which is always cool, and he's sarcastic X3 Go Kadmon.
It's hard to tell whether it's meant for people my age or people younger. I mean, people die (or at least appear to die) relatively often, and Craig swears an iccle bit, but the way it's been written... I just feel like I could've done it better. The number of conversations they've had where everyone's sentence ends in "said Thingy (___ly)" is getting on my nerves, and oh Gawd~ every two pages there is a sentence beginning with 'and'. One of the first things you learn about writing, whether it's creatively or otherwise, is not to use 'and' at the beginning of a sentence. First time I saw it I thought it was a bit odd, but now it's just "stop using that word~ woman! Either ditch it or ditch the full stop! Xx;;;"
However, Kadmon ownz. Read if for nothing but Kadmon, 'shwat I'm doing X3
