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I AM ANNOYED WITH BRANDON MULL. If you don't want Fablehaven to be spoiled for you, don't read this!
I really love the Fablehaven books, but several things about it annoy me:
1) Kendra develops crushes on the avatar of a demonic dragon, a distant cousin, and a four thousand year old unicorn. What's wrong with normal guys that are her own age?! And not related!
2) Kendra is still always outdoing Seth. In the first book, it's basically 'bad Seth opens a window and good Kendra saves all of Fabwehaven.' Then she's fairykind, and everyone makes a big fuss about her, and she's admitted to the Knights of the Dawn, and blah blah blah, but even though Seth's abilities as a shadow charmer are just as valuable, he isn't admitted till the end of the fourth book. True, they didn't find out until book four; but after he defeated the revenant in book two and stole the time device thingy whatever it's called in book three, it was pretty obvious that he was worth something. BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. In book five, right after he slays Graulas and Nagi Luna, SHE uses Vasilis, the sword that SETH recovered to slay the Demon King (yeesh, she's a fifteen year old girl, who cares if she's fairykind!) and gets all the credit for it despite the fact that SETH was the one who stole the sword. It's almost as if Brandon Mull is saying: "Hey, Seth, no matter what you do, you'll always be outdone by your perfect, fairykind, demon slaying, fairy leading, Fairy Queen friendly, unicorn-loving older sister. She's leaning toward Sue status.
3) More about Kendra's love life: in the end, she likes BRACKEN. THE UNICORN (literally, not metaphorically, he's actually really nice but...) WHO CARES? He's a four thousand year old unicorn for heaven's sake, even if he is stuck in human form!!! I kind of wish Warren was her age and not related to her, because out of Gavin, Warren, and Bracken I like him the most. Warren was a sort of silly crush, it was obvious it would end, and Gavin I can give credit: he was pretending to be her age. BUT BRACKEN HAS NO EXCUSE. HE'S A UNICORN. HE'S A UNICORN, OKAY? GET THAT INTO YOUR HEAD, KENDRA: HE'S THE FAIRY QUEEN'S SON, AND A UNICORN!
4) Grandma and Grandpa Snoreson are completely. Utterly. Useless. It's up to Kendra and Seth to save the day. No matter what. Even if there's a demon on the loose. It's annoying.
5) Whenever Kendra has trouble or something, she just goes to the Fairy Queen and goes all, "Oh fairy queen the preserve is about to fall for the fifth time and I need your help so can you please just destroy one of your shrines over there if it isn't too much trouble and give me some crazy potion to transform astrids into humans or whatever and by the way I just drank some poison can your fairies make me fairykind please? And the Fairy Queen ALWAYS goes along with it!
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That concludes my Fablehaven talk. Ahh, that felt good.
submitted by Tiffany W.
(June 26, 2012 - 11:45 am)
(June 26, 2012 - 11:45 am)
I felt sorry for awake, but Briar's death didn't bother me as much, because she's not someone we know as well as, say,ummmm.... Jake or Puck.
Have you read The Council of Mirrors? Because I want to mention this one part, but it's a major spoiler, so....
(August 1, 2012 - 12:32 pm)
When I was like 10, I had a crush on Puck because I had a dream I was Sabrina and I woke him up when /minor spoiler alert/ he was in a coma.
(August 2, 2012 - 11:04 am)
Uh, I don't think it was a coma?
(August 2, 2012 - 3:49 pm)
It was something to the effect of the book ending and him not waking up.
(August 4, 2012 - 5:32 pm)
Yes, I read the Council of Mirrors. I pre-ordered it on Amazon and got it as soon as physically possible. :) It wasn't my favorite, but it was still really good.
And has anyone else read the new Artemis Fowl book, the Last Guardian? I just got it today and OH MY GOSH THE ENDING WAS ANNOYING! It was just... argh! I need to know more! How dare you leave me wondering like this? I think it's going to be the last book, though, so unless Eoin Colfer pulls a Scott Westerfeld and writes some fanfic for his own series, then we're just going to have to guess. *sigh* Sorry if that was spoiler-ish, by the way. ORZ
(August 6, 2012 - 10:13 pm)
I agree with you that Percy Jackson needs a better fatal flaw. I like Annabeth's in that it seems more real. I can't see that loyalty is so terrible.
I am here to gripe about The Kane Chironicles. I really like PJ and the Heros of Olympus so far, but I really don't know if it's worth finishing The Serpent's Shadow (I read only 1 and 2). For one thing, since RR already did this idea for Pery Jackson, it seems using it for Egyptian mythology is a little useless. Sadie is stuck-up and boy-crazy, Carter is pretty incompetent and the only character that I liked even marginally was Bast. Ra was so stupid, the gods didn't even have personalities like the Greek and Roman gods do, and all in all, it was a very dull read for me. I might read The Serpent's Shadow but I doubt I'll have the patience to finish it.
(August 7, 2012 - 9:17 pm)
I like the Kane Chronicles better than PJ because I've always liked Egyptian mythology better than any other type of mythology. I thought the plots of the books were great. I think if you don't compare it to PJ, it's actually a pretty good series. Even though both series are about mythology in the real world, magicians and demigods are quite different.
(August 9, 2012 - 12:11 pm)
SPOILERS!!! (read that in river song's voice and it sounds awesome)
If Rick Riordan doesn't do a mashup, I will stalk him until he does. Not to sound creepy or anything, but he has too after he put all those little hints in the Kane Chronicles and the really big hint at the end of the Serpent's Shadow. He has to a mashup with ALL THE GODS.
Percy's fatal flaw is that he won't sacrifice his friends for the greater good. He's too loyal to them. What Riordan could've done to make it more of a problem was too put Percy in a position where it was his friends or one friend or the rest of the world (or a lot of people). And Percy choose his friend and something really bad happened that couldn't be stopped.
(August 22, 2012 - 6:04 pm)
Maximum Ride (this contains spoilers)
Okay, first it was just dang awesome. I loved the Max from the Angel Experiment and School's Out Forever. Ari was awesome because he just was. It was a lot better.
But from Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, it just went downhill. It was all "Max, you have to save the world" "let's introduce characters that already died" "let's make Dr. Martinez and Jeb switch sides" "Max, you have to save the world", the By-Half Plan, Antarctica, the Doomsday Group, Angel died, but guess what, she actually didn't, the 99%, let's keep developing new powers for the flock like Iggy being able to see the color white and nothing else (which only happened in Antartica).
Fang. My gosh, couldn't romance not get in the way of these stories, for once, please? Fang left, and then there was Dylan, who was supposed to be "Max's perfect other half". And then it was Jacob or Edward, Jacob or Edward. I love Jacob, but I also love Edward! Wait, I love Dylan, but I also love Fang! It was all like that.
And then everything ends. Some mysterious thing that rips the earth in two or something like that and creates two different worlds? It was really confusing.
Nevermore didn't make any sense at all. It was Patterson's attempt to wrap up the series when he realized that he didn't know who was behind everything about destroying the world and all that, after the Director, the Uber Director, and Doctor Hans- what's his face.
Yeah, but I read it anyway.
(August 22, 2012 - 6:18 pm)