I am not finished at this time with reading War In Heaven--I think I left off after the chapter called "Fardles"--but am going to write a "temporary" I am not finished at this time with reading War In Heaven--I think I left off after the chapter called "Fardles"--but am going to write a "temporary" review anyway.
War In Heaven is currently in the saddest state one's personal reading can probably be in: finishing a book only because one doesn't like leaving things unfinished, least of all books. I'm not enjoying it much. It's a bore, not so much because the plot is uninteresting (although it sort of is) as because every single one of the major characters presented so far is entirely unlikable. I wanted to say "a bad person," but I'm not sure the Archdeacon is. More "unlikeable" than "bad." Well, I suppose the obvious exception is the child Adrian, but of course Adrian should not be called a major character. There currently is no protagonist, no hero in the story. It's a bunch of nasty people either fighting over, or evilly cooperating for, a certain treasure. The book might "get better" to me. I don't know. I'll finish the ugly little thing, but my attention is already distracted by other reading material.
I should mention that this is the third Charles Williams novel I've read in a decade, the others being Descent Into Hell in 2014 and All Hallows' Eve in 2015. Descent Into Hell was the only one of the three that I can say I liked. War In Heaven is, halfway through, fairly similar in plot to All Hallows' Eve but better written. The problems I lamented in that review (bad writing, essentially) aren't present in this novel. The problem here is unpleasant characters and a relatively uninteresting plot.
Merged review:
I am not finished at this time with reading War In Heaven--I think I left off after the chapter called "Fardles"--but am going to write a "temporary" review anyway.
War In Heaven is currently in the saddest state one's personal reading can probably be in: finishing a book only because one doesn't like leaving things unfinished, least of all books. I'm not enjoying it much. It's a bore, not so much because the plot is uninteresting (although it sort of is) as because every single one of the major characters presented so far is entirely unlikable. I wanted to say "a bad person," but I'm not sure the Archdeacon is. More "unlikeable" than "bad." Well, I suppose the obvious exception is the child Adrian, but of course Adrian should not be called a major character. There currently is no protagonist, no hero in the story. It's a bunch of nasty people either fighting over, or evilly cooperating for, a certain treasure. The book might "get better" to me. I don't know. I'll finish the ugly little thing, but my attention is already distracted by other reading material.
I should mention that this is the third Charles Williams novel I've read in a decade, the others being Descent Into Hell in 2014 and All Hallows' Eve in 2015. Descent Into Hell was the only one of the three that I can say I liked. War In Heaven is, halfway through, fairly similar in plot to All Hallows' Eve but better written. The problems I lamented in that review (bad writing, essentially) aren't present in this novel. The problem here is unpleasant characters and a relatively uninteresting plot.
Merged review:
I am not finished at this time with reading War In Heaven--I think I left off after the chapter called "Fardles"--but am going to write a "temporary" review anyway.
War In Heaven is currently in the saddest state one's personal reading can probably be in: finishing a book only because one doesn't like leaving things unfinished, least of all books. I'm not enjoying it much. It's a bore, not so much because the plot is uninteresting (although it sort of is) as because every single one of the major characters presented so far is entirely unlikable. I wanted to say "a bad person," but I'm not sure the Archdeacon is. More "unlikeable" than "bad." Well, I suppose the obvious exception is the child Adrian, but of course Adrian should not be called a major character. There currently is no protagonist, no hero in the story. It's a bunch of nasty people either fighting over, or evilly cooperating for, a certain treasure. The book might "get better" to me. I don't know. I'll finish the ugly little thing, but my attention is already distracted by other reading material.
I should mention that this is the third Charles Williams novel I've read in a decade, the others being Descent Into Hell in 2014 and All Hallows' Eve in 2015. Descent Into Hell was the only one of the three that I can say I liked. War In Heaven is, halfway through, fairly similar in plot to All Hallows' Eve but better written. The problems I lamented in that review (bad writing, essentially) aren't present in this novel. The problem here is unpleasant characters and a relatively uninteresting plot....more
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