vivdunstan

IIRC you'd read the first of Huchu's trilogy, but not continued with it. I've continued, as noted in my reading posts, but this series shows signs of the author still needing to mature in their craft. The world seems not quite well-founded. It's not that there're mysteries to be unravelled. It feels like the author just threw a bunch of concepts together withuot thinking through how they're supposed to work. Is this a future? Is it a parallel present? I'm not sure they know themselves. The individual stories and characters have been good enough to keep me reading, but the longer the series goes on the more the lack of coherence in the background becomes a problem. I can understand authors who decide that a world is too broken to be fixed (e.g. autopope the Iron Sunrise series was originally conceived as at least a trilogy but he stopped at two books because he realised he couldn't make the universe work properly) and just move on to pastures new.