Oh, I'm sorry - my mum is bipolar and was hospitalised a few times when I was living at home. I don't get how depression feels myself but I've seen it and it sucks - I'm glad you're in a better place.
I never thought of Caz as depressed particularly - more recovering from trauma and afraid - but I guess I can see it.
In Paladin of Souls, Ista is in the position of having come out of the fog of the curse (which for her in the first book was certainly like depression) and trying to find a path for the rest of her life and some freedom from her past. Like Caz, she doesn't start of from the best place emotionally, and she has more rage in her than he does. So, I don't know - it does have a different feel to it than CoC, but I couldn't say whether you'd like it more.
I was disappointed with The Hallowed Hunt. I felt it lacked the clarity of the worlds and societies LMB normally conveys and the central characters were a little empty. I didn't really feel like I knew either Ingrey or Ijada by the end and never connected with them, and Ingrey was very reactive as a character - he just seemed to get carried along by events all the time with no real plan.
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Date: 2008-03-05 05:18 pm (UTC)I never thought of Caz as depressed particularly - more recovering from trauma and afraid - but I guess I can see it.
In Paladin of Souls, Ista is in the position of having come out of the fog of the curse (which for her in the first book was certainly like depression) and trying to find a path for the rest of her life and some freedom from her past. Like Caz, she doesn't start of from the best place emotionally, and she has more rage in her than he does. So, I don't know - it does have a different feel to it than CoC, but I couldn't say whether you'd like it more.
I was disappointed with The Hallowed Hunt. I felt it lacked the clarity of the worlds and societies LMB normally conveys and the central characters were a little empty. I didn't really feel like I knew either Ingrey or Ijada by the end and never connected with them, and Ingrey was very reactive as a character - he just seemed to get carried along by events all the time with no real plan.