I bought this book knowing nothing about it except that it was a really popular fantasy series that was selling well.
I’m about 100 pages in, and I’ve decided to stop reading. It’s clearly written for a target audience that’s not me. But I swear, I gave it the ol’ college try! Once I was about 15 pages in, I realized what kind of book I was reading so I cracked my knuckles and said, “Alright, it’s fine, I can enjoy a low brow YA book with Twilight-level writing. Lower your expectations, make fun of it a bit, and we’ll just have fun.” But as the pages progressed, I just got bored. The world, the characters, the plot progression. It’s all just rather tedious. There’s no joy, no sense of wonder. It’s just an author racing to get to the next scene of sexual tension.
Not for me. If I were 14, I probably would thought it was great.
I bought this book knowing nothing about it except that it was a really popular fantasy series that was selling well.
I’m about 100 pages in, and I’ve decided to stop reading. It’s clearly written for a target audience that’s not me. But I swear, I gave it the ol’ college try! Once I was about 15 pages in, I realized what kind of book I was reading so I cracked my knuckles and said, “Alright, it’s fine, I can enjoy a low brow YA book with Twilight-level writing. Lower your expectations, make fun of it a bit, and we’ll just have fun.” But as the pages progressed, I just got bored. The world, the characters, the plot progression. It’s all just rather tedious. There’s no joy, no sense of wonder. It’s just an author racing to get to the next scene of sexual tension.
Not for me. If I were 14, I probably would thought it was great.