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.

  • math-is-magic@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    They didn’t say it wasn’t fantasy (which I would take issue with - people are way too willing to call soemthign not fantasy just because it’s also a romance).

    They said it was a bad fantasy.

    Which honestly I think is true.

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      10 months ago

      They said, “I’ve seen people say it’s the best fantasy they’ve read and I’m like…. Oh so you don’t actually read fantasy?”

      Does this not imply they think this book is not fantasy?

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        10 months ago

        How can you be on a sub for books and have such bad reading comprehension?

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        10 months ago

        No, it means the person they are referring to must not read fantasy because they are unable to correctly judge that this particular novel is bad fantasy when compared to other fantasy novels.