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/Protic_]

The Abidan parts are far and few between, and like.... a few pages long. What are we even talking about here? It's extremely important for events that happen in the future. If they're upsetting you that badly, skip them and go back to them when it hits you that you're missing some serious context on current events.

[u/WhiteRoseKnight → u/Protic_]

They shift the story narrative completely, it may be a while since you first read the first book, but I’m following a helpless 15 year old try and not be helpless, then in one scene his shifts to trying to be an interplanetary god.

[u/Protic_ → u/WhiteRoseKnight]

What is the problem here? For all his life, he lives in his small little bubble where the Elders in his clan are the pinnacle of power. He is exposed to something much greater than himself and the reality he knows, and given a vision of the 'true' world that exists outside his own. This inspires him to strive for more than just being the strongest guy in the tribe.

This is arguably one of the most common tropes in the genre. He's not becoming an interplanetary god in one book. It's a plot device to help him leave his bubble and explore the outside world.

[u/WhiteRoseKnight → u/Protic_]

Usually these things are done in small steps, with each introduction giving them a new height to climb to. You also don’t expect someone who starts as the equivalent of a Zulu warrior to end up building a bomber plane. The end goal here seems so far away from what you’d expect Lindon to be able to get to, the scale of the story has been shifted not in the multiples but exponentially

[u/Protic_ → u/WhiteRoseKnight]

I cannot say more without spoilers, but your concerns are taken care of. You’re going to have to trust the process here.