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.
Books are a category of entertainment that are all over the place. With so many authors out there, genres and sub genres are gonna have similar ideas fleshed out differently. Just like with movies, hard to have an original idea without borrowing some stuff. The major difference is, movies have trailers. Books have a blurb on the inside flap. Grabbing a random book off a shelf can be an intimidating thing. Will the author write in a friendly manner? Will it sound casual or formal? Is it a series, or stand alone? Hyper detailed or simple definitions?
Didn’t like your book? Go get a recommendation from a different source. Clearly you have a tone you are looking for. Some people like Tolkiens Silmarillion, and some people like Twilight. Both are fantasy, and they are drastically different.