Loved the book, but dang - that girl's exhausting.

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Posted by Jared on June 19, 2006 at 21:59:32:

In Reply to: Re: this may be a bit Q & C centric but....... posted by Webmaven Maggie on June 19, 2006 at 00:30:28:

"Loved the book, but dang - that girl's exhausting. Am I alone in this?"

Nope. But thats what made the book so damn good - talk about a situation where you never really knew what was going to happen next.....

"It's only my opinion, but I think that series where the characters don't grow end up with characters written into a corner, wrestling the same problems in every book."

Unless they really aren't the main focus of the story, which does tend to happen in Elizabeth George novels. Her books have a tendency to almost have Lynley and Havers in the background, while the novel is more about the characters surrounding the crime and their journeys. But she tries to have it both ways with seemingly random segments involving the lives of Lynley and Havers, and that is where her books can start to loose their focus.

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Re: Loved the book, but dang - that girl's exhausting. - Webmaven Maggie 06/21/06 (2)
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: "Loved the book, but dang - that girl's exhausting. Am I alone in this?" 

: Nope.  But thats what made the book so damn good - talk about a situation where you never really knew what was going to happen next.....

: "It's only my opinion, but I think that series where the characters don't grow end up with characters written into a corner, wrestling the same problems in every book."

: Unless they really aren't the main focus of the story, which does tend to happen in Elizabeth George novels.  Her books have a tendency to almost have Lynley and Havers in the background, while the novel is more about the characters surrounding the crime and their journeys.  But she tries to have it both ways with seemingly random segments involving the lives of Lynley and Havers, and that is where her books can start to loose their focus.


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