Jurjen
My thoughts on this one are a bit conflicted. I think what made L&L so great was how truly earnest it felt, and for much of this prequel, I felt like it was missing that. A bit too derivative, a bit too safe. Perhaps now that the series had its specific audience, this book was written with the audience in mind, rather than the phenom of L&L where people didn't know that this is what they wanted to read at that very specific point in time during COVID.
But I think the last 10% of the book did a pretty good job at conveying an earnest message that I believe Baldree wanted to tell. I think overall this is a lot weaker than L&L, but yea the ending did work pretty well, and made me pretty excited for b3 next month.
My thoughts on this one are a bit conflicted. I think what made L&L so great was how truly earnest it felt, and for much of this prequel, I felt like it was missing that. A bit too derivative, a bit too safe. Perhaps now that the series had its specific audience, this book was written with the audience in mind, rather than the phenom of L&L where people didn't know that this is what they wanted to read at that very specific point in time during COVID.
But I think the last 10% of the book did a pretty good job at conveying an earnest message that I believe Baldree wanted to tell. I think overall this is a lot weaker than L&L, but yea the ending did work pretty well, and made me pretty excited for b3 next month.
