Blogpost 26: The Heroes

I am at a part where Calder has gone through a character arc. He is trying to be a better leader like his father was, Calder is really starting to become one of my favorite characters,but i'm not getting too used to the new Calder. I've read enough of this series to know that this is probably not going to last, in fact, he'll probably end up a worse person at the end of the book than he was in the beggining of the book. The characters that were annoying in the beggining are less annoying now, except for this character named Gorst who was depresing in the begginning and is still depressing if not more. He has to go through a character arc sooner or later or his pov is pointless. 

Blogpost 25: The Heroes

    There are some parts of how the way this book is told that really annoys me, like when there is a a character arc and then all of a sudden the character returns to the way he was in the beginning. This kind of makes you feel like you have been reading for nothing and it gets really annoying. The cool things that the author does is that he writes a situation, and plays it up like its something to cheer about, and then he snaps it back to realism, for example, This character Beck is played up like he wants to fight and gain a reputation, when he got to his first battle, he peed himself, and ran away to a nearby house and hid in the closest. Wow.

blogpost 24: The Heroes

In the book The Heroes, which is a spin off of a series called The First Law Trilogy. It takes place directly after the events of the first spin off  Best Served Cold. The book is told by many point of view, but really I only like a few. One is a soldier in the Union army, he is funny, and he's pretty much know how to be a successful soldier, which is try to avoid as  much fighting as you possibly can. There is Calder, who is hilarious. He reminds me of Tyrion Lannister from A Song of Ice and Fire. he is so much like Tyrion Lannister that the only thing about him thats different is his height. Then there is Beck, who is an interesting character because he wants to make a name for himself. One of the best things about this entire franchise of books is the way characters deal with moral situations and there standpoint on doing the right thing or what even is the right thing. Beck is niave because he believes in stories and songs and doesn't relize what a dark buisness it is. I'm interested to see how he will react to it.

In the book, Catching Fire Katnis is in deep trouble with the Capital. Even though she tried to play up the star crossed lovers thing it still wasn't good enough, in fact, its actual just fueled people's hope for rebellion, so much in fact that District 8 started rioting and people were being excecuted in District 11. To Katniss, it seems like the only option is to run away with her family into the woods. I think that President Snow didn't really expect Katniss to succeed in tricking people into not uprising, it was just a secondary plan,i don't know what his real plan is but I think he's not going to be able to kill Katniss or Peeta or Haymitch and so on. But he can kill Gale.

Blogpost 22: Catching Fire

In the book, Catching Fire Katnis is in deep trouble with the Capital. Even though she tried to play up the star crossed lovers thing it still wasn't good enough, in fact, its actual just fueled people's hope for rebellion, so much in fact that District 8 started rioting and people were being excecuted in District 11. To Katniss, it seems like the only option is to run away with her family into the woods. I think that President Snow didn't really expect Katniss to succeed in tricking people into not uprising, it was just a secondary plan,i don't know what his real plan is but I think he's not going to be able to kill Katniss or Peeta or Haymitch and so on. But he can kill Gale.

Blogpost 20: A Feast for Crows

  SPOILERS  
I'm now reading the fourth book in A Song of Ice and Fire series. In this book the thing that really stood out about this book compared to the other books is that the perspectives are mostly on the bad guy's side. Most of the Starks, which are the good guys, are dead and those that are still living are forced into hiding. The really cool thing though is that the book somehow makes me connect with these characters as much as I connected with the Starks, except for Cersei, if nothing, her percpective made me hate her more. One example of a percpective that suprised me was a character named Jaime. In the first to books I hated this guy, He commits incest with his sister, he pushed a child out a window of a tower, and he was constantly trying to kill the people I liked. But somewhere in the the third book and in the fourth book he starts to regret the things that he did and tries to atone for the one that he can, in a way he starting to become a lot like Tyrion, which is his little, much more relatable, funnier brother.

Blogpost 19: A Storm of Swords

  When I read A Storm of Swords, it still amazes me how all the books in A Song of Ice and Fire series feels more like one book instead of an entire series. Everything in the world of the book is the same as the way was left in the end of the last book.The character's don't change just because the author feels like, but because the world forces them to. Since there is so much lore and plot development and twists, it great to see that the author is able to keep it all contained and still be able to add new twists and development as well.