So I finished, fourth wing last night and I’m totally disappointed, it’s the worst book I’ve read this year and one of the worst I’ve read in recent times, I read so many positive reviews about it that I expected a totally incredible story, nothing in the book works, the writing almost amateur( Wattapp says Hello!) character without personality, repetitive plot( I got sick of reading Violeta saying so much: I’m smaller and Brittle than everyone else) the feeling I had was that Rebecca Yarros intended to write a YA, but then because she wanted to write adult scenes (laughable by the way) changed the age of the characters to over twenty, without changing anything in the plot, all their attitudes and everything they do is as if they were 15 year old teenagers, nothing is original, the academy part sounds like a bad copy of Sabaa Tahir’s The Ember in the Ashes (it’s actually a great example of a well-written fantasy series), the dragons are a duller version of How to Train Your Dragon, the romance part is so childish and shameful, and the plot twist at the end was obvious from the beginning I know that most people loved the book and I respect that, but I would like to know if anyone else has a similar opinion.

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    1 year ago

    It’s another prime example of booktok over hyping a book and marketing it so well it seems amazing but like Lightlark it was a massive disappointment.

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      1 year ago

      I have my suspicions that a lot of the “hype” was inorganic. Social media is already a huge market to get the word out about a new book, it was really only a matter of time until someone took advantage of that to get more sales on a mediocre book.

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      1 year ago

      And Booktube, they don’t get a pass because their videos are longer.

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        1 year ago

        Lol most of my booktube experience is negative reviews/recaps. I now know the entire story of 3 colleen hoover books without having to read them. Which is good, cos they sound very much not ro my taste.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah booktok seems especially bad at Romantasy specifically. I’m 0/3 liking the books that got super popular there in that genre.