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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      10 months ago

      I personally liked the second book better.

      I primarily read fantasy so read this book to have a common book to discuss between my wife and some other friends that primarily read romance.

      The first 15-20 chapters of Iron Flame are a bit slow but it really picks up imo.

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      10 months ago

      I’m reading Iron Flame now and struggling! Usually I can read a book in a day or two and this is going on nearly a week because I keep getting annoyed at how bratty Violet is acting in part one and putting it down.