You might want to be careful, as vague as this is, it's the sort of thing that might spoil someone at just the wrong point.
But yeah, he'd done very well at keeping me guessing, but in the most recent book he did too much "nice person dies" and "person ambiguously dies", and I got numb to it. Yes, in a civil war, it may be realistic, but I got to the point where it wasn't really tense any more, because I stopped empathising with anyone, just in case.
Well, the first book's six years old, and he does it in there, I think I can discuss the writing style without a spoiler warning.
I don't mind "nice person dies" so much, although I was rather expecting someone to come back for a spot of blood-spattered revenge, but I don't want to be keeping a list of people not actively confirmed as dead.
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But yeah, he'd done very well at keeping me guessing, but in the most recent book he did too much "nice person dies" and "person ambiguously dies", and I got numb to it. Yes, in a civil war, it may be realistic, but I got to the point where it wasn't really tense any more, because I stopped empathising with anyone, just in case.
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I don't mind "nice person dies" so much, although I was rather expecting someone to come back for a spot of blood-spattered revenge, but I don't want to be keeping a list of people not actively confirmed as dead.