Hah! I finally finished Hidden Empire (first of the Saga of Seven Suns) and this is a series I will not continue. Oh boy. It's … very Star Wars, with predictable plot elements, space empires, and every character being clearly Good or Evil. Meh, I say. (Better universe than Star Wars, but still.) #leserixx #sffbookclub #scifi #fantasy
There were so many moments like "Oh, yeah, he's going to be the unexpected new king, right?", and "Ah, he's *too* good, he's going to die soon to make way for his less-perfect brother who is a more interesting protagonist".
And of course after seven books, there needs to be a sequel trilogy.
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@rixx Dune ruined a lot of that kind of Sci fi for me. At least in terms of no one being black and white (except maybe harkonnen)
@holger I'll be doing Dune next month, iirc. But I read some great scifi without black/white characters lately.
Oh boy, I just read ahead on the plot of the remaining 6 volumes, and yea. It reads like sprawling fanfiction, only that it's original. So many Mary Sues.