SanteeFats wrote:I will be ten on Thursday (6+4) and I have read all the Honor books to date and I love them. I am on book 5 of Safehold and I do not particularly entertaining. In my opinion there is way to many pages and scenarios devoted to reasoning, rationalizations, Tech stuff, and just plain wasted pages. I know that some such are required for a base and explanation but too much. Example: what does all the scenes devoted to Irys and Coris have to do with anything? Ex2: Coris's trip to Zion was described in great detail which wasn't needed and when he got there nothing happened.
First off, welcome to the forums. The more the merrier.
If you think that nothing happened on the trip to Zion, you missed the point of both the trip and the conversations with Irys. Both Coris and Irys start out the book as pretty much loyal adherents of the CoG. The trip by Coris shows the total lack of concern for Davin by the Go4 and their willingness to use him any way that will benefit them, regardless of the cost to others. The conversations show the disillusionment of Irys with the Group of Four, as opposed to the CoG. That rejection of the Go4 leads directly to her decision to seek asylum from Charis. But there needed to be a foundation for the change. If she had done so totally out of the blue, after her hatred of Cayleb, it would not have been believable.
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