{"id":3730,"date":"2014-06-16T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=3730"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:26:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T22:26:40","slug":"book-review-bastion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=3730","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Bastion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BastionThis series baffles me.\u00a0<\/span>

First of all: Is it over? If anyone knows, please comment!\u00a0<\/span>

I don’t feel a burning need to read anything else in the series. It didn’t end on a cliffhanger and the mysteries of the previous volumes are over. And yet if this is the end … talk about an anti-climax! It practically whispered out of existence.\u00a0<\/span>

Yet paradoxically, even though I’m not sure this is over, I don’t want there to be anymore books. There were already 2 books too many! Most of Lackey’s series take place in trilogies.<\/span>

Which brings me to my second baffling point: Why was this five books long? There certainly wasn’t enough substance to fill five books. I commented on this two books ago. The fourth book picked up the pace a bit, but this fifth book could just about have been tacked on to the end of that one for all the actual plot that existed.\u00a0<\/span>

Thinking back over this book (which I JUST finished), I can’t really remember what happened. They returned home from their original adventure, took baths, debriefed, spent time with the weapons master, packed, left, went to inns, rode on circuit ….\u00a0<\/span>

Mags did spend quite a bit of time worrying about having sex with his girlfriend. Knowing Lackey as I do, I was sure she’d skip the details of the scene and of course she did, but I have to say that I found some real irony in this case: Mags main concern was that he didn’t know what he was doing and was afraid of hurting her. So his mentor explains it (not so the reader can hear, mind — this is summarized) and I guess it worked … whatever these magical tricks to please a woman are! I had to laugh because she was, in effect, contributing to the conspiracy of silence and non-information.\u00a0<\/span>

Oh, and a nit-pick I just have to put out there: Leena and Leeta? (sp?) I do read audiobooks so these names may not have been quite as similar to read as they were to hear (Lina\/Lita\/Leena\/Leeta?) but it was so annoying to keep them straight! The reader was even good, and gave each one a different voice, but I still had to work to keep them straight.\u00a0<\/span>

I’m not sure what to say about this book. Not sure if it’s the conclusion of the series or a boring middling book. Overall, I’m not going to recommend this series to new readers, even if the first book in the series was extremely good.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rating: 2\/5<\/p>\n

Title: Bastion (\u00a0Valdemar: Collegium Chronicles #5)<\/p>\n

Audhot:\u00a0Mercedes Lackey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This series baffles me.\u00a0First of all: Is it over? If anyone knows, please comment!\u00a0I don’t feel a burning need to read anything else in the series. It didn’t end on a cliffhanger and the mysteries of the previous volumes are over. And yet if this is the end … talk about an anti-climax! It practically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading","category-fantasy-what-im-reading","category-young-adult-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3731,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}