Frank Van Meer’s Reviews > Soldier of Dorsa > Status Update

I know it looks like all I do is complain, but I honestly love the story. It's just the choices the author made I have issues with.

People are always going on about "show, don't tell" when it comes to writing, and this book is a good example of telling me things, instead of showing. If you insist on Joslyn preparing for panther to spring before she uses Heron's Wings, SHOW me what that looks like, Don't TELL me. It's annoying.
Also, Joslyn seems to have acquired magical abilities or enhanced senses. Where was all this in the previous book ?

Seriously, if I read one more time Joslyn kills someone by means of spinning crane followed by leaping frog, I'm gonna scream in seven different languages. She did none of this in the previous book.