Taking Flight

Another day, another Ethshar book. Lawrence Watt-Evans’ Taking Flight rather annoyed me at first — not for any deep reasons, but just because I didn’t like the characters. They are… well, they’re teenagers, so they do deeply stupid things for deeply stupid reasons, and basically annoyed the heck out of me.

Fortunately, as the book went on, my annoyance abated. It turns out this book is a coming-of-age story, and the characters (or at least some of the characters) do grow up and become much less irritating by the end of the thing. The end result is a decent if unspectacular Ethshar novel; anyone who’s read the Ethshar books up to this point should certainly read this one.

Comments

Trent on February 22, 2003:

Dude, what the hell?! Don’t do that—aesthetic whiplash hurts at this age.

Mike on February 22, 2003:

Well, I figure if it’s not going to be spring outside, it might as well be spring inside. (And alternate styles are viewable in browsers that support them, for those who can’t abide what Anne calls my “Hundred Acre Wood” look.)

Mike Kozlowski on February 28, 2003:

In the “about damn time” category, the commenting system will finally remember who you are. This doesn’t require any particular acumen on the part of your browser (other than the acceptance of cookies), so even the stubbornly retrograde Dr. Orzel should be able to handle it.