I seriously am not exaggerating by very much. The dialogue really is almost that awkward at points in every book. I wish the series would be adapted to a Netflix series or something, because I bet they would smooth out all the dialogue and just let us appreciate the cool bits.
Though we probably wouldn't get quite as much legal trivia, which--odd as it sounds--would be a loss. Making obscure points of ancient law sound compelling is a pretty impressive literary trick. I did end up checking out the ebook of the latest, and there's this little aside at the beginning on the "bee law," which requires that beekeepers compensate their neighbors because the bees are also visiting the neibhors' flowers. There was apparently a debate over whether the compensation should be in honey, bees when the hive was big enough to split, or either. This was part of a discussion about the importance of legal precedent, and how the bee-law might relate to mining law. And it was so cool.
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Date: 2020-12-19 05:13 am (UTC)Though we probably wouldn't get quite as much legal trivia, which--odd as it sounds--would be a loss. Making obscure points of ancient law sound compelling is a pretty impressive literary trick. I did end up checking out the ebook of the latest, and there's this little aside at the beginning on the "bee law," which requires that beekeepers compensate their neighbors because the bees are also visiting the neibhors' flowers. There was apparently a debate over whether the compensation should be in honey, bees when the hive was big enough to split, or either. This was part of a discussion about the importance of legal precedent, and how the bee-law might relate to mining law. And it was so cool.