Wednesday, November 20, 2013
The Endings (Contains Spoilers- you have been warned)
So, is it just me, or did the rather nebulous endings frustrate anyone else? Boneshaker leaves us to try and figure out whether or not Briar and Zeke will actually leave Seattle. From character cameos in Dreadnought, we do find out they stayed, which is a little insane to me, but Priest basically does the same thing in Dreadnought. Mercy has this long, crazy journey across the U.S., and then all of it sudden it just ends, with everyone going their separate ways, a brief glimpse of Seattle, and her greeting her biological father. That's it. I really wanted to find out what happened to Mercy after that, and what she did with her life, but it doesn't seem to be mentioned in any of the future books. The other 4 books in the series deal with Zeke, the pirates, and new characters, but their doesn't seem to be any mention of her, which is kind of disappointing because I liked her better than Briar. Anyway, what did you think about the endings? Did you think they were abrupt? Did it even matter to you that the series constantly switches the main character?
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We did skip Clementine, which I feel may have explained Briar and Zeke moving into Seattle, but I'm not sure. I don't really feel it was necessary to return to Mercy. While she was a far better character than Briar, the plot didn't really leave many unanswered questions other than what was the conversation like with her daddy, and how did the rest of the war turn out.
ReplyDeleteThe last point alone makes it unimportant (to me) that characters are constantly switched. Its a timeframe story instead of a story focused on a particular group of people (Harry Potter, Twilight, Star Trek, Star Wars, and all the other ridiculously long series). It leaves more room to write by not containing the series to a singular person, and it definitely makes it less boring from book to book. The only reason Harry Potter worked so well was the entirely new world and the fact JK Rowling is a genius. Even Lucas knew if you wanted to have multiple sequels, you needed some device to maintain interest (like releasing the last half of the story first).
It adds a bit to the story that Briar and Mercy could have been a simultaneous timeline instead of chronological (if Briar wasn't sheriff), I just really liked the story, and I think that her switching characters/places helps the series, a lot. But that opinion might change after I read the rest of it.
I think she's mainly going for world building in these books, and though I haven't read any of the others in the series I'm hoping that given time she's starting to tie all the plots together so that everything is approaching a climax.
ReplyDeletethe reason that zeke and briar stayed in Seattle I think is because they have nothing great to go home to. plus, Briar is not looked down upon or hated because of her family; the people in Seattle actual respect her father and Zeke has some what of a family now which he never really had.
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