More Waking the Moon

Ugh. I had to put "Waking the Moon" down. I'm halfway through it and I've decided to take a little break. It's not a problem with the writing style. The author's prose is wonderful. It's just... so much angst, it seems... something like that. It's almost hard to put my finger on. I guess it's that we've spent half the book establishing the roles of both sides of the conflict, and the blah personality of the person caught in the middle of the conflict. (And really, she's not very interesting other than that she's caught in the middle of this situation -- though I think that's the point. She's ordinary, caught up in the extraordinary.) And everything I read is just more of what I've been reading for the last couple hundred pages, it feels like. This book was highly recommended and very well reviewed. I'm wondering what I'm missing at the moment. It's not that I'm not enjoying it... I just keep wondering when things are going to start happening. Technorati Tags: Books Fantasy Literature Elizabeth Moon