Right now I’m reading Fourth Wing and until now, I’m enjoying the book. I really love dragons and high fantasy, so it’s working.
But, I feel that some parts of the book are exactly the same in The Poppy War. The classes are similar and the matters of this classes are the same. Why they invade us? How we should defend? It’s just a point of view, because like i said, i’m enjoying the book!
Someone felt the same?
I enjoyed Fourth Wing, i gave it about 2.5-3 of 5 stars. I had my issues, but it was a fun read.
It isn’t exactly the most… ground breaking or original fiction. I noticed similarities between the story and The Poppy War as well. I also noticed similarities from The Cruel Prince. I think they may employ the same tropes, similar plot devices, etc.
That said, and i can’t for the life of me remember the series name - i’ll edit once i get the name, there is an older fantasy book about dragon riders from sometime between the 1960s-1980s that seems like Fourth Wing was riffed off of, which is common nowadays!
It’s gunna drive me nuts that I can’t remember what it’s called. Stay tuned while I drag the memory out of my head LOL
There were parts of the story and the world building that I enjoyed. The main character is compelling to me. Her motivations make sense and using her strengths to overcome her limitations is really interesting. It certainly borrows a lot from the tropes of romance, fantasy, and ya dystopian books that came before. Like a lot of romance novels in particular, the predictability of this book is what satisfies many readers. All that said, I walked away from the book not really wanting to read any more in the series. One piece of that was the writing style of the romance scenes. I am a romance novel reader and have read some very spicy books in my day, but in this book it seemed like these two genres were glued together rather than part of the same story. The writing completely switches. Like we have Hunger Games with dragons and then suddenly it’s a 99 cent kindle bodice-ripper. Very strange. Also, I’m not a fan of introducing underdeveloped characters just to kill them off for a cheap emotional stab. Hopefully not a spoiler, but if you’ve finished the book you know what I mean.
Right- like the death of that character would be so much more hard hitting in book 2 or 3
I’ve only read the first book in the Poppy War so far, and loved it- but there’s no romance plot to it, which is fine. Unlike fourth wing, which was marketed to me as a slow burn enemies to lovers. The enemies were lovering 3/4 into the first book. There’s 4 more books to go. Very much giving from blood and ash which I hate with a passion. If you’re going to do enemies to lovers do it like Jude and Cardan.