Finished No spoilers

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pip at ...> wrote:
>
> Delurking after a long silence: just finished after about 9 hours of
> reading.
>
> It was fun, and I'd rate it higher than Kneasy's 6/10. Certainly
> moments of 'this is too scary, I don't want to read on', which is
> pretty good writing.  On the whole, reading it felt like being on a
> rollercoaster, complete with those awful bits where you're just rolling
> along but KNOW the next terrifying bit is coming real soon now.
>

Yes, there were sections where it fairly romped along and the reader 
was mesmerically pulled along with it. Best start to a book so far IMO.
It was the other bits, the number of times "...'ere, hang on a minute..." 
type thoughts intruded, when that fine line between believability in the
internal logic of a fantasy tale and the "WTF!!!" expostulations on bits 
that couldn't be swallowed whole broke through the rosy glow and left
this reader with feelings of dissatisfaction.

No doubt on the sites curmudgeonly grumps will be very much in the 
minority, but I can't help but feel more than a little disappointed.

> I note that there are still questions to answer...

Very definitely.
Lots of 'em.
Which doesn't exactly help in engendering a feeling of completion.
But that's not all, by any means....
Hopefully a longer post sometime in the next few days will explain (and
perhaps to the fans more tolerant of dissent, justify) my reservations.

Kneasy