The third option is a bit like "and they all found suitabale spouses and lived happily ever after". That happens in almost ever book, too. Is it really so bad for people to not end up with someone? Eddings is especially guilty of this in his Garion-novels. :/
Really? I hadn't heard that. I liked Fitz a lot (and the Fool. The last novel almost broke my heart...) and thought that he acted like a human being. Then again, I'm not a man so I don't know how they see his character.
To quote Wikipedia on the Death Gate Cycle:
The main conflict is between two powerful races, the Sartan and the Patryns, which branched off from humans following a nuclear holocaust. Centuries prior to the events of the series, the Sartan attempted to end the conflict by sundering the earth into four elemental realms, and imprisoning the Patryn in a fifth prison world, the Labyrinth. The Sartan took up stewardship of the elemental realms, but soon mysteriously lost contact with each other and disappeared. Centuries later, a Patryn known as Xar escaped the Labyrinth, and started returning to the Labyrinth to rescue others. He learned how to access the other worlds and dreamed of freeing all his people from the Labyrinth and conquering the other worlds. The books follow the fiercely independent Haplo, a Patryn agent sent to scout the elemental worlds and throw them into chaos in preparation for his Lord's conquest of them.
...That makes it sound bit like the series is mostly about a war, but it isn't. It's about growing up. It's one of my favourite series because it's interesting in almost every way. The worlds and different cultures are well-made, no one is all good or all bad, people do die, and the protagonists really aren't shining paragons of virtue. Of course, opinions may differ and not all like the series, but I'd definitely recommend everyone to give it a try.
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Really? I hadn't heard that. I liked Fitz a lot (and the Fool. The last novel almost broke my heart...) and thought that he acted like a human being. Then again, I'm not a man so I don't know how they see his character.
To quote Wikipedia on the Death Gate Cycle:
The main conflict is between two powerful races, the Sartan and the Patryns, which branched off from humans following a nuclear holocaust. Centuries prior to the events of the series, the Sartan attempted to end the conflict by sundering the earth into four elemental realms, and imprisoning the Patryn in a fifth prison world, the Labyrinth. The Sartan took up stewardship of the elemental realms, but soon mysteriously lost contact with each other and disappeared. Centuries later, a Patryn known as Xar escaped the Labyrinth, and started returning to the Labyrinth to rescue others. He learned how to access the other worlds and dreamed of freeing all his people from the Labyrinth and conquering the other worlds. The books follow the fiercely independent Haplo, a Patryn agent sent to scout the elemental worlds and throw them into chaos in preparation for his Lord's conquest of them.
...That makes it sound bit like the series is mostly about a war, but it isn't. It's about growing up. It's one of my favourite series because it's interesting in almost every way. The worlds and different cultures are well-made, no one is all good or all bad, people do die, and the protagonists really aren't shining paragons of virtue. Of course, opinions may differ and not all like the series, but I'd definitely recommend everyone to give it a try.