There's a point when melodrama becomes absurdity. I could take any one of these tragic circumstances seriously but blasting through them all at once is just so ridiculous its funny.
The writing is so incredibly generic I feel like I won't remember anything as soon as I click off the page. If you're gonna make power fantasy shlock at least do one interesting thing. And no I'm not counting big boobs.
@Skepticium
I don't think either of us were being particularly inflammatory.
Also, the problems I was talking about are a bit deeper than pacing because the pace is going to to be influenced by the type of story and whatever sort of progress it might have. So its not so much "slow pacing is...
@sleepyknight , I assumed the fact that I'm a fallible human suseptible to subjectivity went without saying. I backed up my opinion with an argument based in the thing we're talking about. "That's just your opinion bro" is so 2009.
@sleepyknight , My critiques were more nuanced than disliking passive protagonists so I'll try to be clearer. Passive protagonists are generally bad to write because either A.) without the protagonist driving the plot forward nothing will happen or B.) the plot will keep happening to them...
"Such well-rounded character "depth" takes a while to develop"
The thing is though if you want to make a character as passive in the middle of a mystery then the psychology behind the psychological drama needs to be the driving point of the story. Young's fear and anxiety aren't articulated...
God, this series is so... frustrating. I can't even say I'm enjoying it cause all I feel after reading is frustrated. Frustrated and disappointed. I keep reading in the hopes of some kind of catharsis will come but this far in it's safe to say that the writer chose the wrong protagonist for this...