paper-knife commented on HappyTeaCultist's review of Tress of the Emerald Sea
Oh this was just such an absolute delight to read!
To put it simply, everything in this book is fantastic! The world is vast and interesting and we learn more about it, but not very fast so there are no real lore dump moments. The characters are entertaining and behave in a way so very human that it makes them very easy to empathise with. The pacing of the book is great, it never becomes dull but also needs no cliffhangers or other such things to grab your attention. Etcetera, etceteraâŚ
Though what I would like to bring up for a short moment is the narrator. This book contains a character who tells us this story and refers to himself as I. But he, is not the main character. What I find most incredible about this is that it works. Because I would not be very interested in a book that would contain this, since I doubt it would work well. But it works wonderfully well in this case. When he puts in little anecdotes or goes on a small tangent about something it doesnât take away from the story. Really, just good stuff.
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