So whenever I contemplated The Great Book Of Amber I was always searching for a word to describe it. And finally, this evening, I thought of a word. That word is “plotty”. Actually, I thought I had made it up, but I looked it up. It’s in the dictionary, and it means exactly what I thought it should.
dictionary.com’s definition of this adjective: characterized by the intricacies or complications of a plot or intrigue
I am only on the 7th book (out of 10 of The Great Book of Amber) for those following along. And I find it very plotty. Up until the 6th book Corwin would have to talk to each of his brothers and sisters whenever he showed up in Amber and piece together clues from rather long winded conversations. Now Merlin does the same thing. I think this new term can also be used to describe The Wheel of Time saga, which had lots of stuff happen in 600+ pages, but not a lot of progress made (at least in the later books).
I’m really looking forward to using this new word. It’s been missing from my vocabulary for a long time.