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Plus the old married guys that are so besotted they can't function around the princesses is pretty creepy. The whole arc with the princesses is pretty damn annoying and sexist ( OMG, no fish sauce.the horror!).
#Alan dean foster spellsinger series
This devolves into another series of disjoint adventure stories that just aren't interesting or very readable (telling jokes to escape a maelstrom just seemed like lazy writing). There's stupid inconsistencies: in the 6th book Mudge has a lot of kids, but in the 7th it's just twins in the 7th the female kid is Neena, in the 8th she becomes Noctor? The premise is forced and contrived - Jon-Tom and Mudge are bored, having a midlife crisis, and need to have a "dangerous" quest. It seemed like a bunch of sloppy writing to cash in on a series.
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Unfortunately the final Spellsinger book didn't get any better. This devolves into another series of disjoint adventu - 2/10 2/10 Unfortunately the final Spellsinger book didn't get any better. I will miss one or two of the characters - but all the best characters left after their respective book never to be seen again anyway so I'm used to that.more I was able to enjoy them though, and this is one of the better ones for sure. They aren't good fantasy stories, they aren't good adventure stories, and I don't think they are good "anthropamorphic animal" stories (although I'm no expert in that genre).
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I still don't think I can recommend the Spellsinger books to any particular group, or type of fan. Of course they are all men, since they are well written. What Foster was doing, I can't imagine, but he does manage to introduce a new group with a different background to those we've seen before that I became quite attached to. In this book the problem is multiplied by the number of female characters brought in at once. Even once strong characters from the beginning of the series are not immune, morphing into a totally different person on their reappearance. Since the midpoint in the series I think Foster went off women, and starting writing awful characters with only two possible guises - the house-proud busybody or the acquisitive wet rag. My biggest gribe is the continuation of the trend towards terrible female characters. It felt a little like he was trying to cram in a few more "tribes"/species to get them off his list, but it was a good variety which added to the plot rather than being entirely fluff. All of them are interesting, and the majority have a good mix of personality and motivations. This could have been a problem, but for once the new characters (because, of course, bringing back old characters would be far too dull) aren't all annoying. The story follows the same rambling through the country meeting people and solving their problems motif that has been the series staple since the third book, this time focusing only on one sub-plot. Foster himself must have been older than that when writing this book, I hope he wasn't feeling his age quite that much! Really though, chronologically the cast can't be older than their early 40s so the frequent comments on dodgy backs, pained knees, and worn out fingers is a little over the top. It's a return to form after the diversion through the 7th book (Son of Spellsinger), focusing again on the cast of the third 6 stories with a layer of "elderly" creakiness thrown on top.
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Really though, chronologically the cast can't be older than their early 40s so the frequent comments on dodgy backs, pained knees, and worn out fingers It's done! I've finished the Spellsinger series! It wasn't a hard series to work through, really they are "easy listening" stories, but it felt like a long time. It's done! I've finished the Spellsinger series! It wasn't a hard series to work through, really they are "easy listening" stories, but it felt like a long time.