( It also really helps that Miles finally really grew up.)
Yes. I mean, he is still very much Miles, but I think he's at least a bit more aware of his effect on other people instead of just sort of steamrolling along.
And I think you're onto something with the mixing up of genres. Another long-running, in both time and number of books, series that I love is Dragaera/Vlad Taltos, and Brust very explicitly picks different genres for each book within the framework -- he's got some heists, a war story, a legal thriller, a book that's like B5's "A View from the Gallery" -- and it definitely helps keep things fresh.
when I started reading them at like 14 I was the age of the younger generation of characters, vs now I relate more to the prior generation... because it's been 20 years.
*nod* Also true. It's been similar for me, since I think I read the first two books in college, and the next two when I had children of my own, and Winds of Winter will be, what, like 25 years after I started reading the series, best case XP
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Date: 2018-12-16 02:27 am (UTC)Yes. I mean, he is still very much Miles, but I think he's at least a bit more aware of his effect on other people instead of just sort of steamrolling along.
And I think you're onto something with the mixing up of genres. Another long-running, in both time and number of books, series that I love is Dragaera/Vlad Taltos, and Brust very explicitly picks different genres for each book within the framework -- he's got some heists, a war story, a legal thriller, a book that's like B5's "A View from the Gallery" -- and it definitely helps keep things fresh.
when I started reading them at like 14 I was the age of the younger generation of characters, vs now I relate more to the prior generation... because it's been 20 years.
*nod* Also true. It's been similar for me, since I think I read the first two books in college, and the next two when I had children of my own, and Winds of Winter will be, what, like 25 years after I started reading the series, best case XP