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FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• JaymesRS@literature.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Like it or not, it was a top national fiction bestseller.

  I mean I think the Hunger Games books were shitty too. At least the bits and pieces I caught from my wife listening to the audiobooks.

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• StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I heard all the hype, so I read it. I now don’t understand the hype. It has three main elements:

  Dragons

  Magic School

  Romance/light erotica

  It doesn’t do any of those things particularly well. There’s nothing interesting or particularly original about the dragons or magic school stories. The romance is super cringe:

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  the unpopular girl falls for the school’s “bad boy”. In a “shocking twist”, he falls for her too. The romance is completely shallow and goes from “I’m attracted to you but we can’t be together” to “we’re soul bonded and will be together forever” in the span of a few in-story days. Again, super cringe and hardly believable, even considering these students are all late teens to early twenties. Yes, the least believable part in a book about magical flying reptiles is the romance.

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