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StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 7 months agoI 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:
spoiler
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.