I kept seeing people talk about The Fourth Wing everywhere, and I decided that if I came across it at some point that I’d just see what all the fuss was about.

I was browsing Libby recently for audiobooks available now, and I saw what I thought I had remembered was the title. What I ended up checking out was called The Four Winds. I thought, great, this will be fine to listen to while I do chores and I can evaluate it for myself.

A couple hours in, I was like, wait a minute? Weren’t there supposed to be dragons in this? I don’t see how dragons will show up in Dust Bowl-era Texas. I realized my mistake, but I was invested at this point and ended up really liking the book.

Has something like this happened to you? What were the books and the outcome?

  • ShadowLiberal@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I made a similar mistake to this with the Game of Thrones series.

    I was nearly done the second book when I went on a vacation, so I figured I’d bring the 3rd and 4th book with me. But before I left I decided there was no way I’d finish the 3rd book during my trip, so I took the 4th book out.

    I was several chapters into the 3rd book until I finally realized that I had accidentally taken the 3rd book out of my traveling bag and had skipped ahead to the 4th book.

    I had been wondering why so many key parts of the plot seemed to have happened off screen in between the two books, and when the plot points from the last book would start to be addressed before I realized the mistake.