kryptaria replied to your post: F, O, W! intoteacups F: What’s your favorite book?…
Ok, I have to ask. The very, very ending of Coldfire. What did you think of it? I actually remember feeling profoundly betrayed to the point where I struggle to reread the series.
OH MY GOD KRYPTARIA YOU KNOW COLDFIRE?!
I am so excited! I AM NOT ALONE.
But yeah, the ending. ’Betrayed’ is about right. I may have finished the book at 3:45 am on a school night during high school, and then thrown it across the room.
I have never been happy with that ending. It has never felt right to me, not like a true ending. It feels like she wrote herself into a corner and couldn’t figure out the real ending, so she settled for that half-assed version. It was especially frustrating because I could see it coming about halfway through Crown of Shadows, and I kept telling myself, “No, she’ll pull this out. She’s got an idea I’m not thinking of.”
But nope.
But good goddamn, the rest of that series was so much everything I’ve ever wanted that I’ve never been able to mind too much. I do still turn it over in my head sometimes, though, searching for the ending that would’ve worked.
I’ve read some of her other books, though, and I have to admit that while Friedman is great at really getting into the psychological threads of her stories and doing some really cool things there, I don’t think that plotting is her strong suit. Her stories always seem a little…um…loose? Like if you could actually see the weave of them, she’d have a lot of tangles and wobbly bits and dropped strands.