This might just be one of these in retrospect brain blips, but I found the deaths were pretty... not predictable, but reasonable, at least within the constraints of that particular universe and story. I remember yelling "WHAT, YOU SHITTING ME?" at the first book once (not so much with the latter installations, I'd gotten more used to the casual everyday brutality by then) but on closer thought that plotline ended exactly as it should have. The violence is horrible and the deaths of many of the cast are annoying/saddening/satisfying as fuck, depending on how you feel about the characters, but I don't think they're senseless or just there for the shock value.
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Date: 2011-04-18 01:50 pm (UTC)This might just be one of these in retrospect brain blips, but I found the deaths were pretty... not predictable, but reasonable, at least within the constraints of that particular universe and story. I remember yelling "WHAT, YOU SHITTING ME?" at the first book once (not so much with the latter installations, I'd gotten more used to the casual everyday brutality by then) but on closer thought that plotline ended exactly as it should have. The violence is horrible and the deaths of many of the cast are annoying/saddening/satisfying as fuck, depending on how you feel about the characters, but I don't think they're senseless or just there for the shock value.
I love those books so, so much.