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The early ones certainly aren't, they're just about pitch perfect. Somewhere mid way, probably around The Annihilation Score, they become so and it starts to fe
by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
The early ones certainly aren't, they're just about pitch perfect. Somewhere mid way, probably around The Annihilation Score, they become so and it starts to feel off, in part because the perfect pitch has become off key. That's entirely ignoring Labyrinth Index centred on Mhari, as it's the weakest book of the series, for its own reasons.
Merchant Princes, set somewhat in the US, gets the pitch of place and character, and keeps it, much more consistently.
- TheJammyOne 7y agoThe Annihilation Score is a pretty good skewering of modern bureaucracy; we've borrowed a lot of terminology from the Americans and imported a lot of their corporate thinking, so it makes sense that the tone shifts. And again, that book is a Mo book, and she's American.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoNot saying there is any problem with an American sounding American in any book. The problem is specifically with the other, non-American characters and their change in tone sounding unreal in the context of a Britain that has adopted many of those US empty corporate cliches, along with a few of our own. Like I already said, I got no problem with Brits using Americanisms - we all do that. Without going away to reskim it for quotes, which I'm not going to do, I think we have to agree to differ. :p