God, I hate Patrick Rothfuss. For years I had to listen to people fellate his crappy novels. I swear there is an entire portion in the second book which is a thinly veiled retelling of the first time he got laid.
Does the MC say this? Isn't he supposed to be some kind of badass? I skipped the Kingkiller books because even by the time I've heard about them the 3rd book never coming out was a meme.
This is a pretty strong introduction to the simp version of Patrick Bateman. Otherwise... something something green eyed monster.
It's not surprising to anyone looking at the names on the books the big publishers are shitting out on the shelves.
Christ, these people are worse than the bitter spinsters that are jealous of pretty young women. I would have told them to fuck off and that they are bigots for saying people should suffer because they are white and have a penis. Or call them miserable wine aunts/queens that peeked in high school and still upset that chad won't look in her general direction.
Many such cases! But seriously, it's quite apparent the moment you start querying or working in the industry or both.
LMAO, WTF? Was this published on Wattpad first? All it needs is a love triangle.
Just another case of “this isn’t happening, but if it did, it’d be a good thing” for these guys
It's called Celebration Parallax. Very useful term to know.
Her publishers are pushing the Wizard School book "BABEL" HARD. a lot of splashy money. Its not going to fail (obviously all the bloggers and booksellers were invited to a dinner at Oxford University recently - money has lined all the correct pockets) and there's enough pre-sales to get it into the best-seller rank on the day it comes out, but apparently it is boring until the last couple of chapters.
Poppy War had an excellent opening and then collapsed once it got to the war stuff. She wrote a lot of those characters when she was like a teenager and it shows.
It's like the Twitter YA version of "the holocaust never happened but it should happen again".
That's brilliant, I knew of the concept but I never had the word to describe it (it feels like it's in the same moral family as hypocrisy, but more theoretical.)
I saw this one and thought it sounded interesting because I like stuff about languages, but after reading some reviews, it seems to mostly focus on how white colonialism is bad!!!! and of course we need diverse characters (meaning PoC), which are all probably enlightened and good while the white character is there to give us their racist viewpoints.
I don't see how this really helps non-white/male writers either. No one with self-awareness wants an asterisk put on their achievements. Probably doesn't help sales and trust in "reception" if consumers can see it too.
(giving you optimistic rating per request but I do hope you're right)
