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| It's all, like -- DAAAAAAMN...! |
Not in a...you know, like a Leon/The Professional kind of way, or in a "The Golden Age of Wireless" kind of way. No, no. The best way I can parse it out it is thus:
It's bad-ass in a "Bob Ross Totally Schools That Canvas With Some Phthalo Blue" kind of way.
Look -- the plot is dense, but so engaging as to be astonishingly navigable. The characters are interesting and compelling. The setting is misted with a sense of history, permeated with substance and depth. And even though (or perhaps, because) there's no real action in the, you know, KA-BOOOOSH! sense of kinetic action, the plot unravels with a genuinely seductive pace.
It's all in the pacing.
The plot develops at a pace that seems slow...until you realize that you've been reading non-stop, and watching the world and its people and its details and its travails and its history and its everything being peeeeeeeeeeled open and revealed to you in --
-- Bob Ross. All mellow, he'd take his trowel and kinda drag it over the canvas, and BAMMO HAPPY LITTLE TREES?
Just.
Like.
That.
I just want to keep reading so I can find out what happens next. In fact, why the hell am I sitting here typing this when I could be reading the next cha--
