Kathryn wrote: "So... what do *you* think?"
I quite enjoyed Limbo, though it's not one of Sheila's best. There were, I thought, two main problems with it:
a] I don't think it *entirely* escapes Mary-Suedom, since there is that (for *me* annoying) business the The Heroine having all the emotional answers (to Gauda Prime and Malodaar) and giving way too much advice to both Avon and later Vila.
b] tied up with that is a tendency to 'show *and* tell' rather than 'show instead of tell' - Sheila is actually very good at showing the emotional interactions, but doesn't seem to trust herself as the writer to do so, she then has The Heroine spell them out again.
Oh, and [c] with *my* Avon, crying wouldn't help one little bit, and he would never break down like that in front of anyone - he'd quite literally rather die. But that is my take on the character, and it's not *too* jarring.
Re [b] I can understand the urge, however. With Blakes 7, the characters are both *extremely* buttoned up and extremely contradictory, and trying *to* simply show can get very very difficult (anyone else find themselves shouting at the monitor occasionally <g>?)
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