The Book Thread

[warty goblin]

Continuing the Dragonlance Legends reread, now about halfway through War of the Twins. These remain a lot of fun for me, and I think better than I would have credited them for based on memory alone. Structurally the series is substantially more complex than I recalled, with good use of flashbacks and dramatic revelations.

It also makes good use of having multiple characters, and cuts between them regularly, often between paragraphs rather than chapters. This lets the narrative show things from the most interesting point of view, and integrates the characters' actions and thoughts into the action, rather than in a flashback later on. I miss books doing this, it lets the character development and action flow much more smoothly than the current vogue of max 1 PoV per chapter. That can work, don't get me wrong, but it isn't the only good solution.