![]() ![]() Bauer made it visceral by describing the injuries and the struggles each player experiences. I became immersed in the world of ice hockey. As the race for the Stanley Cup builds, so did my sense of excitement, as if I was watching my favorite team gunning for a championship. Instead, he has to strike the right balance between world-building, plot, and character development, so the reader can be taken along for the ride without ever being jolted out of the reading experience. ![]() We don’t learn about the world simultaneously as his characters do because they’re already fully invested in it. He has a delicately balanced approach to providing the perfect amount of information about this world without ever resorting to an info dump. This is due to the powerful way Bauer has of describing the world where his stories take place. Then, along comes Tal Bauer, and this sport suddenly becomes interesting. ![]() I’m not demeaning the sport in any way, but it’s not something that has me interested. I never believed for a moment that the world of ice hockey would enchant me. ![]()
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