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The Cracked Throne (Joshua Palmatier)

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The Cracked ThroneJoshua Palmatier I liked Cracked a lot better than Skewed. The style flows a bit more smoothly, you get some fascinating new insights into the way the Sight and the Throne work, and Varis seems much less of a wet rag. I like the personalities of the original group who created the throne, how they’re saner than the other voices, and present as a guide to Varis — it’s a believable way to teach her certain things that she needs to know but would take far too much time to discover herself. That’s always a problem when you […]

The Skewed Throne (Joshua Palmatier)

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The Skewed ThroneJoshua Palmatier I don’t know if this was intentional or not (I suspect it wasn’t, but I’m always ready to give the benefit of the doubt), but much of this book sounded as if it was written by a fourteen-year-old, not just narrated. It’s just little things that sort of stick out, like, "Eyes hardening, I turned back to the mouth of the narrow." I mean, you just don’t say things like ‘eyes hardening’ when you’re talking about yourself in first person. It’s the show-not-tell thing, most basic rule in the book. Same thing comes up in multiple […]