04-13-2021, 07:01 AM
Indexing by Seanan Macguire
Amazon/Kindle has a program where they do serial novelizations where chapters are released periodically. Indexing was Macguire's stab at a serial novel. From the blurb it sounded pretty interesting. The Fairytales of lore are trying to change our reality to fit the fairytale tropes. There is a special government agency trying to keep that from happening. The main character is Harriet who if she is not careful will be changed into Snow White. She runs the team that fights the changes the fairytale narrative is trying to make happen. She's joined by Sloane, a wicked step-sister: Jeff, an elf who makes shoes; Demi, Pied Piper in training; and Alan, the human. The whole novel is the fight against Mother Goose's attempt to make the world's reality a fairy tale.
The book is better in thought than in execution. Since it was a serial, every new chapter has to go back and reintroduce what has gone before and who the players are. Plus, the whole fairytale narrative impinging on our narrative was never well executed. And a lot of the characters just seem like characters from other Macguire novels.
Amazon/Kindle has a program where they do serial novelizations where chapters are released periodically. Indexing was Macguire's stab at a serial novel. From the blurb it sounded pretty interesting. The Fairytales of lore are trying to change our reality to fit the fairytale tropes. There is a special government agency trying to keep that from happening. The main character is Harriet who if she is not careful will be changed into Snow White. She runs the team that fights the changes the fairytale narrative is trying to make happen. She's joined by Sloane, a wicked step-sister: Jeff, an elf who makes shoes; Demi, Pied Piper in training; and Alan, the human. The whole novel is the fight against Mother Goose's attempt to make the world's reality a fairy tale.
The book is better in thought than in execution. Since it was a serial, every new chapter has to go back and reintroduce what has gone before and who the players are. Plus, the whole fairytale narrative impinging on our narrative was never well executed. And a lot of the characters just seem like characters from other Macguire novels.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm