Something blue: update the first

[fred_mouse]

Only a little later than planned, but at least it is still the weekend :)

Have you read anything you want to talk about this week? Bonus points for if it matches the theme!

Comments

[kalloway]

Actually, the cover for The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation 3's cover is fairly blue, so I guess it counts. It took me a couple of tries to get into it, but then I read the rest straight through.

There is a section in the middle that I really enjoyed, unfortunately it was sandwiched between two very long and very dry chunks of exposition. Hundreds of pages of tell-y backstory. Theoretically they fill in gaps in earlier volumes, because this author is known for stories about re-framing assumed relationships and truths, but I honestly feel it could be a lot less clunky.

[fred_mouse]

\o/

Do you reckon the clunky is the original story, the translation, something else?

[kalloway]

I don't think the translation is doing it any favors, but when the story has a couple hundred pages of backstory, maybe a hundred in the present, and then another hundred of backstory, it... just feels a little clunky and disjointed. I'm not sure if there's a better way to tell the story, unfortunately. (And also, it was originally a serialized webnovel, so told in chunks over time and where length sometimes beats out pacing.)