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there is a nugget of a good book in here, but it falls prey to every single "no one has(鈦犫暞鈦犅扳仩鈻♀仩掳鈦狅級鈦犫暞鈦狅傅鈦犅犫仩鈹烩仩鈹佲仩鈹� why are books like this now!!!!!!!!!!!
there is a nugget of a good book in here, but it falls prey to every single "no one has an editor anymore romantasy blah blah" that booktok has enabled over the past few years. I don't really want to list them all but like. It's so frustrating. And the ending wasn't an ending! Extremely "this is one book we split into two" vibes.
The authorial choices in this book were so baffling that I am retroactively questioning if books 1 and 2, which I have read multiple times each, were The authorial choices in this book were so baffling that I am retroactively questioning if books 1 and 2, which I have read multiple times each, were actually any good either.
Like the first two books, there are a number of different threads and mysteries. Unlike the first two books, none of what happens feels worth it. But I could have forgiven this if the author hadn't made two absolutely disastrous decisions.
(view spoiler)[ Number 1, which was less terrible but still bad, was having Iana tell Thara that he loves him as a friend but only has sex with women. It truly felt like the author looked at the first two books, realized she didn't ship them anymore, and instead of putting on her professional author hat and finishing the romance she'd been building up for two books, just decided Iana was too heterosexual for this. There's a substitute romance hinted at with Thara and his bodyguard that's shoehorned in in the last quarter of the book which feels clunky and uninspired. I was genuinely disappointed and do not understand why anyone thought this was the right way to take the book.
But even worse was Thara getting his powers to speak to the dead back in a literal act of god. Losing his powers in book 2 was interesting. He's vocally grappling with this in the beginning of book 3. And then it's just. Resolved. And for what? Plot convenience? The plot it kicks off doesn't even feel satisfying. Giving Thara back his powers was the absolute most boring thing the author could have done. It was a bad decision and it made everything else in the book worse. (hide spoiler)]
Forth Wing is not good. It's mostly not good on a sentence level, but it's also not good, though less bad, on a plot level. The first half or so was eForth Wing is not good. It's mostly not good on a sentence level, but it's also not good, though less bad, on a plot level. The first half or so was extremely readable anyway and I don't not recommend it, if you go in with eyes open.
The romance was unreadably dumb and I put the book down for a while until I could work up the momentum to keep going. The extremely explicit sex felt uncomfortable against a Hunger Games reading level plot/prose combo of the rest of the book.
The dragon lore is weirdly specific and yet never followed through on, in a way that feels like it's following rules established elsewhere, or like fanfic of a better book that makes things happen for reasons.
And it's also not a horse girl dragon book!!
In conclusion, read Pern. Or The Hunger Games. They are both much better than this book....more
I read 2 chapters and had to stop before I took more psychic damage.
I'm frankly offended that a major publisher is willing to put out something so poI read 2 chapters and had to stop before I took more psychic damage.
I'm frankly offended that a major publisher is willing to put out something so poorly written, and embarrassed that readers are reading it anyway.
It's just bad! It's not good! The craft is high school level at best and seems to have had absolutely no thought put into it. I didn't check if there's an editor listed but if there is, this is embarrassing....more
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