That’s fair. I’m just easy to impress so i don’t think critically about whatever media i’m consuming, be it books or movies, so i’m more accepting of things that could have problems. I just saw a bunch of people saying its bad and was wanting to understand. Thanks for clarifying.
and that’s ok! i had a lot of fun reading the book, i livetweeted it and i had a blast. it’s just that while it was an entertaining and fun book… it was not a good one.
many of the older mtg novels are so-bad-theyre-good and i suppose war of the spark may jut be another one of these. i’m just upset by this because war of the spark was the culmination of over 5 years of planning (like 10 years of planning if you count alara). i’m used to magic fiction being… not so great. but i just think that this book of all of them should have been /amazing/ and it didnt deliver
why do you guys think it’s bad, I liked it. Aside from a slight issue of pacing i didn’t see much wrong with it.
the tone/style of the writing was inappropriate for the mood of the set and was incredibly clunky at times (using 19 individual names in a single sentence, listing 16 of them consecutively).
there were continuity problems. major plot points that were set up in ixalan were dropped (jace returning vraska’s memories, jace planning with niv-mizzet before he died). jace literally shouldnt have had time to go on a weeks-long quest to find nissa because he was supposed to be on ravnca making plans with niv-mizzet.
some of the characters were ridiculously out of character. theres no way in hell gideon jura of all people would ever seriously consider surrender (page 176). and theres no way jace, who has called himself “ravnican to the core” in the past would ever say that ravnica is not his home (page 42). aside from issues that i find to be egregious like this, i find that everyone else fell completely flat.
