The Fourth Wing is getting to me. I can’t get past the weird writing style. It’s bothered me from the second paragraph “I tighten the straps of my heavy canvas rucksack and trudge up the wide staircase of the stone fortress I call home. My chest heaves with exertion, my lungs burning by the time I reach the stone corridor leading to General Sorrengail’s office”. The author then keeps this weird tense in dialogue. So many “I” statements. It’s like it’s both a journal recount and happening in real time.
Oh absolutely. My brother got a graphic novel of The Hobbit that I loved so I tried to give the book a go and just could not do it. I love trees but I don’t need a 3 page description of one. I found that I was skipping over large sections of the text avoiding the painfully detailed bits that were entirely unnecessary and decided it just wasn’t for me.