Ambrose
8/21/2024
Exceptional and fairly easy-to-see character development is essential to a series and I think that Colfer puts a lot of effort into it. It helped this novel not feel cut and dry. I mostly read stand-alones and a huge reason is that I tend to get bored when reading series. That's why character development is important: it makes things feel newer and shinier. The flaws are still there, too many near-death experiences and the insertion of humor at inopportune times. But it's what younger audiences love it for and so those are more personal critiques of an adult who might be too serious when it comes to reading.
I feel like the series could have been wrapped up here, but there are still four (five?) more books to go and I wonder if in hindsight I'll believe that Colfer should have stopped here. I've enjoyed the books so far so I hope they don't decline as I continue.
- If humans discovered Fae do you think we'd wipe them out?
- Butler just casually doesn't care about getting "old"
- How do you think you'd change if the last two years of your life were mindwiped and you were back to your previous self?