As a preamble know that the length of a text never repulses me (or even the opposite!) And that the
slowness of a history charm me most.
The author describes many, especially the frame, the landscape or even insignificant details and found
these long difficult to read escaped because they cut me the story, without bringing anything nor in the background,
nor in the mood.
The thing is the relationship of the three main characters, but this interest is waning over reading:
male characters, Achmed Grunthor and are not renewed, eventually becoming caricatures of themselves.
Heroin, Rhapsody, was certainly not easy to appraise it must be perfect and it is not easy
to convey. His past "sulfur" is essential to the sensual dimension of the character, but it is not credible.
Rhapsody is talented, resourceful, draws easy affection; she should find work (or even steal
a little!) rather than coming to such extremes. Besides the fourth main character, Jo, despite its forms
female, managed to stay innocent, is rather unlikely in the context evokes the author.
Besides this fourth character is completely wasted, why the hell the author she has stowed away in his account this
unbearable caricature of American teenager?
To conclude, I sometimes felt the same weariness in long texts (eg the game in Raiders
Sea Robin Hobb book that I appreciated also for sea snakes, repeated many times,
almost identical). But then the story was more exciting for my taste and I waited patiently until later.
The mysteries are many, but treated with too much effort: we understand so late (when we include something!)
where the author wanted to come (for example with the prologue and shifted story beginning of the book) that the charm no longer.
There are some good ideas in this book, but no more. Even the dominant subject of music did not touch me in his
expression. I'm more like the way it is used, treated in all the books of Sarah Ash or in the name of
P.Rothfuss wind, for example.
I did not like either sexuality bonus which the author shared with us; I do have not seen the interest and I
found displaced from the general style (okay, it's a matter of taste!)
That is: for all purposes ...
(Note: comment after reading the VO; therefore concerns volumes 1 and 2 of the symphony centuries).
