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Legacy Books (1/4 through #3)
I'm reading these books fast for me. I think part of that is because there is so much filler. I could handle it in book #1 when the story was just getting set-up but it's very annoying in book #3 where I'm just ready for the plot to continue already.
More spoilery thoughts (up through 1/4 of book #3)
Rodney as a Wraith is really really annoying and somewhat confusing in some of the dialogue areas. I do like the idea of Rodney leading the bad guys to Atlantis while under alien influence, but I just don't feel this was the way to do it. At the very least it should lead to some powerful scenes, but the authors keep pulling back for some reason. They write pages and pages of slow time on Atlantis but then quickly skip through the scenes where the team sees what's happened to Rodney? How does that make any sense?
I also understand the need for new characters but I would like my new characters flushed out more. When they go on about how they have the gene it just makes me feel like I'm reading a Mary Sue.
I'm still enjoying the books enough to keep reading them. Most of the characters seem like the characters I know. I can skim quickly through the filler (I don't mind set-up and slow build, but rehashing episodes drives me batty). As much as I don't like the Rodney storyline, I am very much enjoying how Wraith culture works in this. Some of it is...off, but not so off that I'm put out of the story.
More spoilery thoughts (up through 1/4 of book #3)
Rodney as a Wraith is really really annoying and somewhat confusing in some of the dialogue areas. I do like the idea of Rodney leading the bad guys to Atlantis while under alien influence, but I just don't feel this was the way to do it. At the very least it should lead to some powerful scenes, but the authors keep pulling back for some reason. They write pages and pages of slow time on Atlantis but then quickly skip through the scenes where the team sees what's happened to Rodney? How does that make any sense?
I also understand the need for new characters but I would like my new characters flushed out more. When they go on about how they have the gene it just makes me feel like I'm reading a Mary Sue.
I'm still enjoying the books enough to keep reading them. Most of the characters seem like the characters I know. I can skim quickly through the filler (I don't mind set-up and slow build, but rehashing episodes drives me batty). As much as I don't like the Rodney storyline, I am very much enjoying how Wraith culture works in this. Some of it is...off, but not so off that I'm put out of the story.