I kind of like the fact that Jake's narrative voice is sort of generic. I mean, I get what you're saying, but tbh I think it's okay that with all of the extreme personality types around him, Jake really is just this Average Joe. And in the books you mention, I feel like his shrewd/ruthless leader comes out a little bit more, which isn't itself BAD but...ugh, I'd rather have Jake be generic/extrospective than whine and whine and whine about how hard it is to be a leader. And idk, from a writer's perspective the amount of information they unload in that book without confusing or alienating viewers just astounds me. Maybe this is just my own issue as a writer, but I cannot get a handle on that "start as late as possible" whole thing and when you look at the fact that by page 45 of the first book, the construction scene is over...idk, just wow.
I get what you're saying about #3, and it is all Tobias angst but I think it's some of the most annoying Tobias angst in the series. The attempted suicide to me felt so hokey, and I mean I get that this is all first person narration and Tobias would be the ABSOLUTE LAST PERSON in the series to admit that he got stuck on purpose, but I guess I just wanted it not to be so one-sided whining. A little more Hamlet "what am I doing" and less like Othello "my life sux so bad u guise srsly :("
and idk, I just feel like #4 is the first time everything feels like it's fallen into place, everyone's dialogue feels like their dialogue and it's well paced and yeah Cassie whining boo hoo whatever shut up and idk, I love that Tobias could hear him just like Cassie could. That was a really good detail very early in the series, and plus it was the first Animorphs book I read so idk I may be biased.
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Date: 2010-10-18 11:45 pm (UTC)I get what you're saying about #3, and it is all Tobias angst but I think it's some of the most annoying Tobias angst in the series. The attempted suicide to me felt so hokey, and I mean I get that this is all first person narration and Tobias would be the ABSOLUTE LAST PERSON in the series to admit that he got stuck on purpose, but I guess I just wanted it not to be so one-sided whining. A little more Hamlet "what am I doing" and less like Othello "my life sux so bad u guise srsly :("
and idk, I just feel like #4 is the first time everything feels like it's fallen into place, everyone's dialogue feels like their dialogue and it's well paced and yeah Cassie whining boo hoo whatever shut up and idk, I love that Tobias could hear him just like Cassie could. That was a really good detail very early in the series, and plus it was the first Animorphs book I read so idk I may be biased.