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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thotas" data-source="post: 1898771" data-attributes="member: 18974">All this praise for the Amber series.  OP says it's all over Amazon, we see so much here, and I've heard it for about 3 decades personally.  I hereby claim the honor of being the voice of dissent.I didn't get into the first book, but when we come to the end!  Someone above says that in the second five, characters miss the obvious for plot reasons ... you mean it actually gets WORSE ???Because that's exactly how the plot resolves in book 1.  I won't get specific so as not to spoil anything in case you decide to go with the other recommendations, but in a nutshell:  Villian puts Hero in a bad situation.  Not that bad, though, Hero has a special ability that gets around it.  But it is bad, because Villian knows all about special ability.  He can negate the solution easily.  But he doesn't.  And when he fails to do so, the Hero (who has been telling you all about his ability for the whole book in first person) also over looks the circumstances that negate what Villian has done to him.  So when the complete obvious happens, it's a big shock to both of them.  Even though to a reader paying even the most casual attention, the only mystery is why no one's been talking about it a lot sooner.  Mind you, it's not like it happens real fast and anyone fails to react quickly enough.  The bad situation actually persists for weeks .  It's kinda like that awful Supergirl movie, where as bad as everything is up til the end, we have the scene where SG flies to the villianess's window, and demands the doohickey.  Villianess, having seen how SG got there and having noted the flight earlier in the movie, tries to stop her by ... making the floor tiles wobble back and forth.  You think, "wow, that's the dumbest thing I've ever seen!", at which point SG climbs out of the window and struggles to walk across the floor.  And then you think, "wow, that's the dumbest thing I've ever seen!"Admittedly, the friends of mine who told me to read the great, classic Amber series told me, when I presented my objections, swore to me that if I read the books that follow, the discrepancy will be explained.  Yeah, well, I'm not reading them or seeing any Supergirl sequels had there been any.  I'm not sold.</blockquote>

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