Review - The Harsh Cry Of The Heron
Feb. 16th, 2008 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wilderthanJust finished reading The Harsh Cry Of The Heron, by Lian Hearn. I quite liked it: I didn't feel quite the same desire to keep turning the pages as I did with the first book of the original trilogy, but it was entertaining enough.
The problem was the mostly slow start, I think, and the fact that I kept getting confused about who was related to who and who was doing what. I was a little annoyed at what finally happened to Shizuka: in the original trilogy she was a strong woman with a streak of ruthlessness. I felt a lot of that was lost this time.
The thing that does annoy me, reading some other reviews, is that people hate it and give it one star because it has an unhappy end. Yes, it's not a happy book. No, I don't think it's less worth reading for that. In fact, had everything been neatly and happily resolved at the end, it would've been rather silly.
I don't really have any significant thoughts on the book -- I thought I would, which is why I started writing this, but it seems not. XD I might post again once I've finished reading the prequel, Heaven's Net Is Wide.
The problem was the mostly slow start, I think, and the fact that I kept getting confused about who was related to who and who was doing what. I was a little annoyed at what finally happened to Shizuka: in the original trilogy she was a strong woman with a streak of ruthlessness. I felt a lot of that was lost this time.
The thing that does annoy me, reading some other reviews, is that people hate it and give it one star because it has an unhappy end. Yes, it's not a happy book. No, I don't think it's less worth reading for that. In fact, had everything been neatly and happily resolved at the end, it would've been rather silly.
I don't really have any significant thoughts on the book -- I thought I would, which is why I started writing this, but it seems not. XD I might post again once I've finished reading the prequel, Heaven's Net Is Wide.
