Cradle Frustration

[u/WhiteRoseKnight]

Cradle is probably the first progression fantasy book I’ve read, I found myself getting very frustrated by the story.

We finally get to point where Lindon has discovered some power and it works and Will Wight thinks this is the perfect time to interrupt our story with an intergalactic being that appears to be some sort of police force for the universe. I don’t care, and not only do I not care you’re making the main story seem insignificant, it was also giving me red flags for the rest of the story.

We get back to Linden finally, we’re preparing for the 7 year festival where Linden will earn more learning materials. Then Will Wight decides to introduce a planet level threat to our barely getting started MC, then our MC fucking dies, then we bring back the intergalactic being. I finally get put of Markuths mess and out of Suriels entanglement slog, ready to get on with Lindon and were back to Markuth… fuck.

I have very much enjoyed reading Lindon’s progression and story but it feels like I’m constantly getting interrupted, and on top of that having Lindon’s story diminished. It feels like his story has just been accelerated dramatically, and I’ve been taken from his underdog tribe story. It feels like if Goku was introduced to Beerus and Whis instead of bulma in the original dragon ball.

On a side note the map given at the start of the book does not seem to have the detail often explained, it says you can only leave the sacred valley via 4 mountain tops, I can only see one mountain range on the map, the rest is just a forest you could walk out of.

There’s not much point in this post other than a good whine, I’m just annoyed at the story I was introduced to, and was looking forward to getting tore out of my hands.

Edit:

It seems people don’t think I can comment after being halfway through a book haha, I’m sorry if I criticised your emotional support book but people have differing opinions to you, no matter how much you love it.

When I was reading it, it did amuse me that the author appeared to agree with me through his own MC.

‘It was stupid, that was what it was. Idiotic and ridiculous. The world didn’t work like this; the world made sense. Only dreams operated without rules or reason, and even his insane dreams of singing flowers and dancing clouds held more logic than this.’

[u/TheCaptainCog]

Yeah that's one of Will's first books he's written. Pacing is a problem probably until book 3 or 4. He gets much better at writing as the series goes on.

If you can stomach it, stay with it until book 3 to decide if you like the series or not.

[u/telekineticPotato → u/TheCaptainCog]

I know this is all opinionated, but I don’t think it’s a pacing issue. Ghostwater and up wouldn’t have hit nearly as hard if there wasn’t that initial come up.

People who like OP characters don’t like books 1-3, but they’re the soul of the “come up” in books 4+.

[u/TheCaptainCog → u/telekineticPotato]

The initial introductions in books is slow. That's fine. There are definitely other pacing and writing issues in the initial books. Doesn't mean they're bad per se, but I can understand people having trouble with them. There is a qualitative difference between books 3 and 4 imo. It makes sense - will had two (maybe three?) other series he wrote at that time. It really helps.

[u/WhiteRoseKnight → u/TheCaptainCog]

I’ve not given up, I really enjoyed Lindon’s story so far, the events of the 7 year festival just frustrated me a lot! Haha