I actually found this at the library and checked it out a while ago--got about halfway through it in the course of the maximum renewal periods (which adds up to about three months' time, I think) and gave up. I agree, the premise was GREAT, and I wanted to engage much more with the characters than I did. I mean, they live in this wonderful world and there are exciting and scary things happening to them, but once I got distracted from my reading? There wasn't enough to draw me back. This in contrast to another fantasy title that I started in mid-December, read another 100 pages or so of in February, and finished in March (by the skin of my teeth, and under threat of injury from the guy I'd borrowed it from). Granted, that was the sixth and final installment of a series, so I'd had more time to invest in the characters and the plot, but I don't think that negates the point
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Just curious, but how does the curse work? Like is it daylight/no daylight or just light that matters, and the Lightborn all go home and keep their lamps on? Because I'm looking down the sleeve of my housecoat and it's pretty dark in there. I was just wondering, since the curse sounds pretty strict.
We never get a scene from a Lightborn's POV, but it's my understanding they are in blinding light all the time, even at night. So either their indoor light is bright enough to penetrate clothing, or that's a nothing tiny detail that was overlooked in the world-building. Maybe both! :)
That does sound like an interesting idea, perhaps the first really new idea in that genre in quite awhile. No wonder it wasn't quite fleshed out. New ideas take time to season, and books are written too fast these days. I've been holding onto the first book of a trilogy I'm writing to make sure all three books fit each other, and as I get ideas writing the later books the first book grows too.
You're right, people do write too fast these days, and unpublished writers especially are more concerned with GETTING PUBLISHED NOW OMG! than making sure they have an excellent story. Your plan is a VERY GOOD ONE, and I applaud you for it. I find myself wanting to do the same with any serial/trilogy ideas I come up with as well. :)
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What was the other fantasy title you were referring to?
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