I don’t hate it. The plot is good and the characters are fun but how tf is this the most popular book in this category???? I feel like I am reading Rick Riordans Magnus Chase or Apollo Series style dialogue (which I love in that context but with this being more mature it seems out of place). But Rebecca Yarros actual writing is so much worse than Rick’s.

She TELLS the reader everything instead of letting them experience and learn it. Like why is her crossing the bridge thing like a 30 minute chapter of her trying to word vomit the whole world at you? Or when they are in their first battle strategies class and the professor is info dumping the whole issue to you instead of pacing it out more naturally?

Not to mention the way she describes things feel lacking.

Again, it’s a fun read for the people but I really expected more from it with pulling me in and being higher quality for the hype that it gets.

I was expecting SJM or Jennifer Armentrout type of books with the complexity of the worlds .(note I am not saying SJM is an amazing writer. I think her writing in TOG was pretty good for this genre but I hated her writing in the last few ACOTAR books and CC completely. And JLA I just think she and SJM do better at world building and appropriately creating characters that seem their age but JLA besides world building feels the same as RY). It feels like she tried for that but landed in middle school writing world with a lack of understanding effective engaging world building in a book. Probably because she’s a romance author so she can kick ass at dialogue but the layers seem hard for her to structure properly.

Again I don’t hate it but why tf is it SO popular for being such subpar writing? Quicksilver was a mess editing wise but I thought it was a lot better bc she kicked ass at world building so I could ignore the minor holes in the plots or the backwards quotes or missing punctuation.

My book club is NOT going to be happy when I report my disappointment bc they are all HUGE fans.

Why do you guys love it? I’m an writing my own book as well and I want to make it a book people love so I would enjoy hearing the parts that really draw you in despite all of what I shared