S.E. Robertson
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The Healers' Road (The Balance Academy, #1) door S.E. Robertson
I enjoyed this. The beginning was OK to read, but I did wish they would get over their feuding a little sooner. I must admit I didn't think their reactions were always logical. There was hardly any mention of the killing, e.g. Fortunately, it finally took a turn for the better, and I really enjoyed the two protagonists getting to know each other, supporting each other, and each managing their lives.
This is a very interesting book. It’s almost entirely character based, as opposed to plot based, as two characters learn to overcome their prejudices and give each other a chance. They are both pretty intolerable for about half the book, before they start to grow as people and become likable. It was fascinating to watch them change as two years pass with them traveling on the road as healers.
I feel bad - everybody else seemed to love this book, and I...didn't.
The first 25% was exquisitely painful. Everybody making assumptions of each other, and making each other miserable. It reminded me a lot of Fitz in the Robin Hobb series. Agna in particular. But that's fine, it's a deliberate choice of the author. It's something that I decided 10 years ago that I don't like to read, but I got through it.
The next 50% of the book everybody just became too solicitous of each other. There do come points where you can be relatively sure of how somebody will react to something, especially if you've been constant companions for the past year. You don't always have to tiptoe on eggshells for every conversation with a person. Aaaaaaargh!
And there's slow, and then there's a complete lack of goal or resolution of plot. After that first 25% there were a few medical things, and then it just became really introspective on each character.
And Keifon's verbal tics. "Mmn." "Nn." "Hm." "Umn." Repeated ad nauseam. It drove me batty!
Anyway, a lot of the too-solicitous problems I had with this were similar to what I had with Becky Chambers' The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. So ironically, I think I might recommend Healer's Road if you liked Becky Chambers. They're both probably great books, but very much not for me.… (meer)
The first 25% was exquisitely painful. Everybody making assumptions of each other, and making each other miserable. It reminded me a lot of Fitz in the Robin Hobb series. Agna in particular. But that's fine, it's a deliberate choice of the author. It's something that I decided 10 years ago that I don't like to read, but I got through it.
The next 50% of the book everybody just became too solicitous of each other. There do come points where you can be relatively sure of how somebody will react to something, especially if you've been constant companions for the past year. You don't always have to tiptoe on eggshells for every conversation with a person. Aaaaaaargh!
And there's slow, and then there's a complete lack of goal or resolution of plot. After that first 25% there were a few medical things, and then it just became really introspective on each character.
And Keifon's verbal tics. "Mmn." "Nn." "Hm." "Umn." Repeated ad nauseam. It drove me batty!
Anyway, a lot of the too-solicitous problems I had with this were similar to what I had with Becky Chambers' The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. So ironically, I think I might recommend Healer's Road if you liked Becky Chambers. They're both probably great books, but very much not for me.… (meer)
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