Was the story too fast paced, or too centralized around the main character?
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Re: Was the story too fast paced, or too centralized around the main character?
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I entirely agree with this sentiment. I enjoyed Rion, and even Aries on my opinion had subtle hints of character development. I suppose in my personal opinion I wouldn't have minded if the book ended earlier. For example say the book ended right when Rion gets captured; but still has the same length of pages. We would have gotten to feel scenes that felt rushed like the bank robbery, or the training montage; be fleshed out further.Seroney_ wrote: ↑04 Sep 2021, 07:15 I agree that most characters were superficially displayed. However, I am happy that Rion, the protagonist, was accorded time and space in the better part of the book. I would have loved it more if a few more characters were accorded the same privilege. That said, character development was shallowly done in this book.
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I didn’t actually think about this much until you mentioned it. I completely agree with that there were characters that were introduced; that barely got any time. For example the mind reader kinetic that was with the predators. I found him to be sort of out of place because he didn’t have anything memorable about him except his dislike for Rion, and being a talented artist. I think if the cast had been cut down we could have focused, and develop the relationships between them we would learn to care for the characters more. There were many characters whose names were forgotten because the cast was so long and many of them barely got any attention.
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