I read it and liked it. Some parts felt a bit slow and might need more conflict. Humans like reading about conflict where the outcome seems to be in some doubt.
The death of the last human was surprisingly emotionally engaging for me.
I didn’t mind the smoking at all and I don’t really get that objection. Even if it might make the reader like Hanna less, why is that a problem? Is there some reason the reader should unambiguously regard Hanna as the hero from the start?
It wasn’t “made me like Hanna less” that made me remark on it—characters are allowed to have flaws. It’s just icky. I don’t enjoy thinking about icky things.
Ah, well, no accounting for taste. I find sex to be icky (in fact, I call it the Icky—Bicky, complete with m-dash), but I’ve given up on complaining for quite some time.
I wasn’t complaining, just neutrally stating a dislike. Complaining is more emotionally active, and is usually at least partly exhortative. I’m not interested, at this time, in influencing other people to change their attitude towards mentioning sex and bringing it up to my mind, uncomfortable as that may be for me. And did you really need to downvote this harmless comment, from someone with three points to his score? With sarcasm, to boot?
I read it and liked it. Some parts felt a bit slow and might need more conflict. Humans like reading about conflict where the outcome seems to be in some doubt.
The death of the last human was surprisingly emotionally engaging for me.
I didn’t mind the smoking at all and I don’t really get that objection. Even if it might make the reader like Hanna less, why is that a problem? Is there some reason the reader should unambiguously regard Hanna as the hero from the start?
It wasn’t “made me like Hanna less” that made me remark on it—characters are allowed to have flaws. It’s just icky. I don’t enjoy thinking about icky things.
Ah, well, no accounting for taste. I find sex to be icky (in fact, I call it the Icky—Bicky, complete with m-dash), but I’ve given up on complaining for quite some time.
Have you really.
I wasn’t complaining, just neutrally stating a dislike. Complaining is more emotionally active, and is usually at least partly exhortative. I’m not interested, at this time, in influencing other people to change their attitude towards mentioning sex and bringing it up to my mind, uncomfortable as that may be for me. And did you really need to downvote this harmless comment, from someone with three points to his score? With sarcasm, to boot?