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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1528450" data-attributes="member: 5171">Right.  My book is called "Wayfarer Redemption", but from what I can tell by plot synopsis comparison, it's "Battle Axe" by your titles.My issue wasn't that racism existed.  My issue was that racism existed, but all the protagonists utterly defy their cultural upbringings with little or no difficulty.  At least in the first book, which is all I've read, Axis and Faraday and Azhure have no difficulty whatsoever becoming best buddies with the Forbidden.  With Azhure, there's at least a bonding period, but Axis and Faraday are essentially making friends with people their extremely strong religion has told them are awful horrific monsters, and they've got all of about half a page of concern before they do.Yeah, most likely.  I was just bummed because, as a rhyme/meter nazi, I like poetry to be, well, poetic.  Rhythmic.  I like work put into it.  Or maybe it was skewed on purpose.  I dunno.  As I said, it didn't do it for me, but I'm not in a place where I can lay that down as the law.I think that if I read it was a teenager, I wouldn't have much issue.  These days, I'm more into shades of gray, or at least bad guys with some good qualities to make them more interesting.  A bad guy who is capable of doing good is more interesting, and more unpredictable.  But that's not every book's structure, I admit.Edited some stuff out -- if I do read more, I don't wanna know what happens. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I guess my issue wasn't with the prophecy existing, or with the prophecy being as heavy-handed as it was, as with the simplistic approach to it.  At least in the first book (which, as I say, is all I've read), it was just painful to watch the Sentinels lead people around, and to watch people let themselves be lead around in a way that actual real people would never do.  I didn't get a sense of character justification behind the actions.  It was far too easy for people to break away from everything they'd believed for their entire lives and go through ridiculous (and, to them, sacreligious) rituals just because someone said, "Hey, I know this is hard, but the prophecy said it's really important."  Man, if I knew that line worked that well, I'd have used it on girls in high school.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As I said, not as negative as I may have sounded.  I liked much of it, and I actually enjoyed a lot of the magic -- and I'm usually a hard sell where song-magic is concerned.  Song-magic always strikes me as too easy, given that my wife is a singer.  And some of her magical sections really did raise goosebumps.  She's got a good sense of wonder.  I just really got irked in a few specific areas.</blockquote>

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