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  • I havent, I’ve looked at goodreads reviews and currently the top ones are negative reviews by people who want him to release the third book, apologize for the charity thing and they don’t talk about the book

    And a five-star review by rothfuss himself where he links his blog, doesn’t address the third book and the charity thing and also doesnt talk about the book (but complains about its 2star rating and tells us he is still part of the top 10 reviewers on goodreads so that’s nice!).



  • Owlish_Howl@alien.topBtoBooksMost annoying trope?
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    10 months ago

    Enemies to lover

    which I would love as a concept but which way too often turns out to be anything but that. Like the characters are already visibly attracted to one another and it gets resolved way too quickly but we now have to pretend these were enemies for the rest of the book. Also the reason they changed their mind about one another is something dumb.

    “He hates me and wants to murder me with his crimson eyes and angelic face and huge muscular body and…and…”

    “Ugh Mary, you’re salivating again.”


  • You basically have to ignore goodreads on this. (they are owned by amazon) so this award is just another way to push the same romantasy that already gets pushed on tiktok.

    Its why there is romantasy + fantasy + ya, so these megasellers dont cannibalize each other in the same category.

    if you’ve ever seen one of these images with a bookcover and arrows with tropes pointing to it, thats what goodreads tries to sell - fourth wing was sold like this too, apparently it’s"Hunger games + Harry Potter + dragons!!! + enemy to lovers + found family".

    If you want to read anything else I recommend either using another site or use the lists and groups that are user created.