Last week I reviewed The Napoleon of Notting Hill. There was one criticism I had, when I first finished the novel, that I withdrew after further thought. I’ll share it now, but first a SPOILER WARNING: This post will focus on the ending of The Napoleon of Notting Hill. If you don’t want it spoiled,…
Tag: character death
CSFF Blog Tour: Red Shirts and Snapped Threads
In my last post, I criticized Beckon for its high casualty rate. I thought it would be good, today, to consider why characters are killed, and why they ought to be. One common reason for killing characters is to (in the words of one author) “create peril”. Many poor red shirts* have lost their lives…
CSFF Blog Tour: A Vote for Happiness
[Warning: Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers everywhere] Do you know what irony is? Irony is a man wondering if he can find a new life, and then getting killed ten minutes later – due to past sins, no less. I don’t know if Jeffrey Overstreet intended such a morose irony, though he did write it. That was…