Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.202.74.177-20190615005450/@comment-2600:1700:CED1:2390:749B:3277:B3E8:5F59-20190618003548

99.251.7.169 wrote: Okay, so I guess here's my opinion. Hmm where to start. 1) I don't completely hate Sophie, but she's definitely not my favourite, then again if you asked me who my favourite was I don't think I could answer cause none of the "main" characters really stand out to me. 2) Sophie has waaay too many powers. And it would feel a bit better if maybe one of her friends had two powers, like Sophie has too many and all her friends only have one ability. Come on, all her friends also seem to be the top elves of their abilities (like how did that happen?) so would it be that surprising if one of them got another ability? 3) Waay too many "main" characters, like there's so many that it draws a lot of attention to their group and so they have to do things in smaller groups which makes characters feel left out and why characters disappear forever at a time or barely appear, etc. 4) Love triangle and the romance. This is one of my biggest peeves about the series, it actually causes me so much anxiety with the love triangle and who will she end up with and it's been going on way too long. I also don't get why this series has so much romance, she's only 15 and she got a lot more problems to deal with than boys, I miss when it wasn't so focused on them, like now it's even corrupted the Iggy poll. 5) I feel like this might be the most unpopular but I have to say it, and it kind of relates to point four. The book series has been going on way. too. long. There I said it. Now I love Shannon's writing and I love the series and world, it's just been going on too long. I prefer series to have either have three or five books in them and now we're on the way to nine. My perfect solution would have been two series of five books relating to them. Kind of like the Percy Jackson series and Heroes of Olympus. Each one had their own story that ended and then the next one brought the characters and world that we loved but in a different light. I feel like this same thing would have been better for Keeper (especially with the size of the books) because it just seems to keep running on. It already almost feels like two different stories, like there's so much stuff that was a big deal in the start of the series that doesn't matter anymore. Now relating to point four, because the series is too long the love triangle has been stretched too long. Again, I'm going to reference Percy Jackson cause it's another one of my favourite series. It wasn't focused on romance, sure it had Percy oblivious and there were crushes and stuff, but it wasn't the main point. And then everything was happy at the end of the series when it just felt right that the romance would happen. In book series, yes love triangles can exist, but they can't go on for too long. And herein is one of Keeper's problems, because of how many books in the series, the love triangle's been dragged out too much, but if Shannon picks there's going to be a bunch of angry fans who won't want to read the ship that happened. So I do get the reason why, cause she does have to sell books and stuff, it's just really annoying.

Anyway, thanks for hearing my rant (whoops) about some of my opinions (wow it feels great to say them). And trust me, despite all of this, I really do love the series and I think Shannon is a great author (how does she keep the most boring things exciting).

I agree with the thing about main characters. Having so many takes away from each individual. And Sophie is SO POWERFUL but they still can't beat the Neverseen. The series is getting way too dragged out, I don't care if it is long, I just want the stuff in it to be relevant, have plot development, and have at least SOME resolution.

-Because We're Cognates