The World of Shannon Hale discussion

Amazing, in my humble opinion. What do you think?

good goodi dont remember it a ton cuz i read it a while ago but i remember it being good. i loved how the character writing the diary was like a healer sorta (mucker i guess)

I think it was a really neat story.

The first time I read it I didn't like it much. I couldn't get into it. The second time... I loved it. I don't know what changed but I thought it was amazing.

I love how it was based off of Nomadic and Mongolian Culture. The world is amazing too!

It was so different from Bayern, Tira, or Kildenree. It was different yet really enthralling and interesting. Dasha was an amazing protagonist.

The main character is Dashti :)

Ah! I know that. I just got the names mixed up. ARGH! Dasha is awesome and Dashti is also wonderful. In this instance it was Dashti.

I like the name Dashti. So cool!

I loved this one. It's one of my favorites.

I just reread it, and I found myself disliking it this time. The characters irked me. Dashti and Tegus especially. Saren, despite her skittishness, was my favorite.

The first time I read it, I disliked it, but the second time, I liked it. =P

LOL. It's good.

I liked it. It was very different from the other books that Hale's written. It was a little confusing at first, though. It was frusterating how easily Dashti got pulled in to service.

I loved how Shannon developed the culture of the people.

It isn't the difference in writing style, necessarily. The characters just didn't seem real to me. They didn't seem believable. Except for Saren, but she was annoying.

-shrug- Well, the way Dashti was raised gave her a different mentality than from most of the main characters in her books. She's a bit naive, but that's because she grew up like that. To her, thing were black and white, either right or wrong, good or bad. And she had to learn that things aren't always like that.

Way-chan (Aspiring Author) wrote: "It isn't the difference in writing style, necessarily. The characters just didn't seem real to me. They didn't seem believable. Except for Saren, but she was annoying."

Ditto on the Saren Part, but she turned out alright

She was the only character that I liked in the end.

I think BOATD was good. It's not my favorite by her but it was and enjoyable read. Enough that I re read a while later. I think Saren was okay, but stupid. I did not like Saren very much. Dashti on the other hand was interesting. I don't really have a favorite, but if I had to pick one probably her or that Khan (right title?)

I like the one that turns into a wolf heh heh heh. (btw I'm kinda tired right now... if you couldn't tell...)

Dashti was too perfect. Unrealistic. Uninteresting. No Personality.

Yeah, I know what you mean.

True. I guess I odn't hink to much about characters. I guess thinking more about it, I didn't really have a favorite. That wolf guy was weird.

I have a problem: I am a writing fanatic who is obsessed with realistic characterization. It ruins many books that I once loved. *Sigh*

I didn't think Dashti was perfect.

whoa *head palm* I read it wrong. I thought we were talking about Dasha! I'm confuzzled. Yeah, I didn't think Dashti was perfect, either.

She wasn't completely perfect, but too perfect to be an interesting character.

-shrug- She seemed naive and simple-minded to me. And since the book was in 3rd person...

I thought it was in first

It was a diary, so yes, it was in first.

I hate books written like that (generally) but i didn't mind this ALL that much. just....the characters weren't that developed.

MY BRAIN WAS DEAD T-T

I meant 1st person.

And character development is harder in first person.

I just prefer third person in general. It isn't necessarily Shannon. *Shrugs*

Tamora Pierce is much better in 3rd than in 1st, just saying. I know it's kinda irrelivant

I am a big fan of characterization and if something has a tendency to diminish character development... Not going to approve.

Way-chan (Aspiring Author) wrote: "I just prefer third person in general. It isn't necessarily Shannon. *Shrugs*"

I think all the different POV's are interesting. I can't say which is my favorite. I've never thought that much about it.

But I really like 3rd, because sometimes you can see the Bad guys plan and wonder how it will all work together. there are also disadvantages to it. For ex. sometimes writers will split up the story into TONS of people's perspectives and it get's really annoying that you keep switching. I could give examples

1st is also cool because you don't know what's gonna happen and there can be suspense.
like I said all are good. :D

Hannah wrote: "But I really like 3rd, because sometimes you can see the Bad guys plan and wonder how it will all work together. there are also disadvantages to it. For ex. sometimes writers will split up the story into TONS of people's perspectives and it get's really annoying that you keep switching. I could give examples"

I actually kind of like the rotating narration. I'm doing that with my book. Rotating between three siblings.

Some rotating narration is fine- like Rick Riordan has started to do in his Kane Chronicles and Heroes of Olympus series', but that's by chapter- it gets annoying when it happens two or three times within a chapter.

Ah yes. That would be annoying.

Way-chan (Aspiring Author) wrote: "Hannah wrote: "But I really like 3rd, because sometimes you can see the Bad guys plan and wonder how it will all work together. there are also disadvantages to it. For ex. sometimes writers will sp..."

Yes, I know. But I've read books with like 5 OR MORE. It does get annoying if there are THAT MANY.

Exactly. I read Red Riding Hood ( ) and it did that fairly often.

Also:

The Alchemyst That series got to the point of TONS!

Into the Land of the Unicorns Not so bad at the beginning but by the last book there were definatly a whole bunch of skips. Annoying.