Status Updates From The Blue Sword

Done. Man, I don’t know. I had a lot of problems with it, but I also don’t think it was a bad book at all. I like the story but I can’t help thinking that this would have been stronger with a better writer. A big battle was written in a very detached anticlimactic way! Nothing feels rushed yet there were some boring parts to read. I didn’t hate it but…the wrong Mack Lady wrote it.

Harry just isn’t a good character. There’s a lot of telling of how she feels confused, scared, and lost, but what I actually saw was a girl just going with the flow and adjusting way too quickly to what should’ve been a bizarre situation. Also, McKinley spends a lot of time giving animals human-like characteristics and not enough to the human characters. This was a problem in Deerskin too with the damn dogs.