Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-98.247.168.42-20181122042639/@comment-37166538-20190605024545

I agree that the interest dropped a ton after Neverseen. It's almost as though she doesn't want them to win too fast, but she doesn't know how to write it so that it's drawn out, but it's still suspenseful and interesting. I can think of lots of actually interesting new things that happened in Keeper through Neverseen. After that, it feels like she's just making up new stuff that doesn't fit into the world simply to keep us interested. But... I'm actually losing interest.

She should really put twists on what's she's got instead of adding a bunch of new stuff. Otherwise, it feels disjointed. This might be an unpopular opinion, but the whole shadowflux thing annoys me to no end. Why introduce something like that so late in the series, and then literally make it the entire plot? She hadn't even hinted at it, as far as I can remember for six whole books!

And the whole troll hive system? I'm sorry, but no. It was waaaaaayyy to convenient that it was introduced in the same book as the alicorns were born....

J.K. Rowling, in my opinion, was way better at foreshadowing and working with what she's got.  *MAJOR Harry Potter SPOILERS* Subjects like the Room of Requirement were alluded in books before they were needed. The Horcruxes were also foreshadowed in the second book, even though they don't become as important until the sixth! Even some of the smallest details in the series had their beginnings books before they came to light. That's one reason that Harry Potter is one of my favorite series. It's all conects so smoothly and seamlessly.