Unread postby Lthayer3 » March 22nd, 2011, 11:16 am
I started it probably a year or more ago, but I dropped it after a few chapters. Looking through it, it seems I got to around to maybe the beginning of the fourth chapter before giving up on it, and I'm pretty sure it would go about the same if I tried reading it again now. Very few authors (in any verse) manage to create convincing OC main characters and incorporate them in a manner that I find tolerable (JFalcon (writer of New Blood) is the only one I can think of offhand).
Skimming through it, I do think the OCs are well written, but I just don't feel a connection with them. The way the story is told just makes them (really, all the characters) feel distant. Either the OCs need as strong a set of personalities as the majority of the Naruto cast, or the point of view needs to be changed somehow. As it is, to me, the story isn't engaging, and it feels uncomfortable to read, if that makes sense. =/
I'd post a review, but it would basically amount to not liking Zapenstap's style of writing. And considering that I think this feeling is about the same as what I got when I tried a Mercedes Lackey book a month or two back (probably my fifth attempt at one of her books -- you'd think I'd learn that I don't like her style by now), it's probably just an unconscious preference on my part, rather than anything deeply wrong with the story...