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Beth /user/show/4... reviewed Mortal Fire

As I told her, I especially liked:

"It's so deliberately constructed - and the characters don't grow as much as experience events and advance the plot - that the characters feel like chess pieces, and the author's hand, moving them, is always visible."

Part of the reason I liked this was because I find it often in books I read. Beautiful writing, interesting ideas, but weak characters. I've been calling them 'iconographic' or 'cardboard' or 'shallow' instead of 'authentic' but I like Beth's metaphor much better, especially as it includes the author's hand bit.