Quite honestly I can’t stand only a few books that I’ve read, recently The Awakening by Nora Roberts.
Holy crap, do I reallllyyyyy want my money back. I was bored. So. Bored. The magic system was subpar, the characters just….ew, everything was so, so boring. The MC is an idiot.
What book is a zero star read for you?
ERAGON
I read Eragon when I was like 16yo, after having read LotR, a year or so earlier . The dude was copying Tolkien right and left. Which is kinda expected, because all high fantasy writers have read LotR probably and it’s very influential. But man Eragon was something else. I did finish the first book, but didn’t bother with the others.
They got quite a bit better as the author matured. Rereading eragon as an adult was kinda iffy, but brisinger and eldest stand up to time.
Need a scene change? He blacks out for any reason!
As someone who has just recently reread the whole series in anticipation of the release of Murtagh, the nostalgia from reading them as a child really carried me through the first two books.
You can 100% tell that the first book was written by a 15 year old and Eragons constant inner monologue justifying his every move to himself continues to stay annoying. Oh and his obsession with Arya is still cringy in the last book.
The books do however progressively get better and I still love the world building and a lot of the characters, so I am excited to see how Murtagh turns out.