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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Everett" data-source="post: 6834460" data-attributes="member: 21712">Well, my review was short because I just don't read books (or watch movies) that exist in a PG/PG-13 spectrum. A friend is trying to get me to watch Kung Fu Panda 3 and the thought of it just makes me cringe. And while in the Story Hour this didn't matter to me because the story was so huge and sprawling (and I'm aware that the group dynamics came from the table dynamics of the players, and I've played enough D&D campaigns to know that usually the table dynamics are on the safe side, not the Game of Thrones side), in a novel I do demand more depth.That said - I think you could shoot for more depth without moving into R-rated territory. The group after all is a mix of attitudes toward death, violence and morality that range from an insistence on empathy and compassion (Ernie) to pragmatism (Grey Wolf, Morningstar) -- and you could make a case that Aravia is pragmatic to the point of sociopathy - after Mrs. Horn's death, her only thoughts are that the old woman was expendable, "but she knew better than to say that aloud." All of this can make for interesting intragroup dynamics, as it often does in the Story Hour, but in the novel I noticed a leaning or preference for the "Ernie" viewpoint to matter more than the "Grey Wolf/Morningstar" point of view. Right - I can't know if I would be thinking "this feels like a D&D game" if I didn't know it's based on one, but my sense is that if I didn't know, I would still be thinking "something feels off; things happen too neatly."</blockquote>

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