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bloody-wonder · 4 years

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Can I ask why you didn’t like six of crows? No hate, I haven’t even read them, lol. I’m just curious because I was considering reading them, and I’ve pretty much seen only praise, and that if you liked AFTG you’ll like them. So now I’m kinda curious why you like one and not the other!

first of all just seeing soc and aftg in the same context makes me go bananas

all those people are lying to you

they live a lie

but secondly i didn’t like soc basically because it’s so overhyped both on tumblr and on booktube which probably gave me unrealistic expectations. if i had just picked this book up having zero context for it (and i would have cause the premise sounds really interesting) then i’d have just thought meh and gone on with my life. but the plethora of hype around it makes it look like a very engaging story with great characters which simply can’t leave a person disappointed.

well it can

my main issue with it is how it’s “fake dark” or “ya dark”, if you will. its “darkness” is a huge part of how it’s viewed and advertized by its fans and, seeing as the main characters are rogues and criminals, dark r rated stuff is certainly to be expected of such a story. but that’s where the unstoppable force meets immovable object bcs soc is also ya and there’s only so much r rated stuff you can sneak into ya. so in the end we have a book that shoud have been adult but was forced into ya limits to sell more copies i guess and all its potential had to be sacrificed. in the end we have a book which certainly has some graphic violent scenes so i wouldn’t recommend to a 12yo (bcs that’s where ya readership age range begins, doesn’t it?) but which isn’t going to impress a 18yo. a 25yo grumpy crone like me sees only a simplistic story with quite shallow characters that has been peppered with violence here and there to seem more edgy. bleh.

especially in comparison to aftg, where people have real issues and you can see how those issues affected them in their personalities and it impacts you cause you know they aren’t gonna overcome them in a span of one book, soc looks like a wishful fairy tale. and people call aftg unrealistic, ha!

one of the reasons i expected to like soc is how everybody says it’s character driven. if by character driven you mean that the plot literally dissolves into deus ex machina plot holes if you look at it closely - then well yes it’s true. but as for the actual characters they aren’t gonna work for you unless you do the usual fandom routines of self-projecting, guessing and overinterpreting bcs the text isn’t gonna give you much. jesper and wylan are basically non-characters and if people say they get developed more in the sequel it’s a lie - whatever they have there is very shallow and minimal. their romance is a joke so if you’re expecting a fabulous gay love story you aren’t gonna get it. nina and matthias are defined exclusively by their problematic romance plot which is beyond boring and kinda distasteful in the year of our lord 2020. kaz and inej are the most well rounded ones but if you happen to not like them then there’s virtually nothing for you in this book. inej feels like a more boring version of katara. kaz is a mary sue and just a major disappointment overall.

my last minor nitpick would be the world building. i’m still debating with myself whether what the author did is cultural appropriation or not but to know for sure i need to read the grisha trilogy which unlike soc is set in the country based on russia - but i’ll never do that so i won’t ever know. anyway it’s just really cringy and simplistic as well: we have countries/cities that are basically russia, amsterdam, norway and china. if captive prince can be criticized for taking greece and france, giving them fancy fantasy names and calling it world building then soc should be criticized for that too.

however i’m just an old soul who will attack every book that’s ever compared to aftg, but for you - if you like dark-ish ya then you’re probably gonna like soc. if you do - good for you, but if you don’t - come to me to complain :)

#asks #six of crows #there's a list of overhyped books which i #high key dislike #let's call it that #these are soc trc vicious and if we were villains #these books don't deserve rights anyway #but especially when they get compared to books like aftg or tsh #which are actually good #book tag

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minyardcva · 3 years

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hi! it’s been a while since i’ve been active on tumblr and most of my mutuals are not active anymore so i’d like to find new blogs to follow! if you post some of these lke/reblog and i’ll check you out!💖

the foxhole court/all for the game

the raven cycle

six of crows

the song of achilles

the secret history

if we were villains

vicious

carry on

classics

lit in general

dark academia

aesthetic

mythology

art

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bookbrd · 5 years

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Looking for writeblrs to follow!

Since NaNoWriMo is looming ever closer, I am in need of sone more distraction inspiration on my dash.

So please reblog & tell me something about your WIP(s)!

Bonus points if you write/post about:

- Contemporary stories

- Bisexual rep

- LGBTQIA+ relationships

- Characters in university

- Pirates

- Dark academia

- Book fandoms: AFTG, TRC, SOC, ADSOM, Vicious, If we were villains, any books by @aliceoseman

Even if you don't post about any of this, please still reblog with your WIPs and I'll still check you out & boost it.

Here is a little bit about my current 2 WIPs: The price of a Smile (Contemporary / University / Bisexual rep) and Cursed Islands (Fantasy / Pirates / wlw)

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dollopheadsandclotpoles · 5 years

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hey just wanted to give another different opinion on josh lanyon - her books appeal to a lot of people looking for gay romances, but the romance is definitely NOT a side plot, and i think her writing is very poor and awkward and sometimes weird. there are a lot of books with gay romances as a subplot that are way better. i'd suggest instead shades of magic by ve schwab, also if we were villains by ml rio although that's very different from soc of trc and isnt fantasy but is well worth a read

I LOVE If we were villains!! That was one of my favourite books I read this year. And the shades of magic series has been on my list!! I loved vicious and vengeful so I’ve been meaning to read those.

Oh totally I wasn’t looking specially for fantasy (or even specially for gay romances for that matter) I just wanted something where the romance was satisfying but not the main point of the story.

Thanks so much for your recs and advice!!

#book recs #anonymous #ask

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bloody-wonder · 3 years

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What are some books that you don’t like but are very popular?

i don’t like soc and trc but i’d be neutral about them if they weren’t so overhyped. i buddy read trc with my tumblr friend sarah and could channel my frustrations into our discussions so ultimately i don’t have any negative feelings left. i guess eventually i’ll forget the bad parts and remember only the things i liked and maybe when the dreamer trilogy is finished i’ll even read that. the fact that trc fans seem to be quite self-aware about the weaker parts of the books also helps me reconcile the actual quality of this series with its immense popularity.

soc on the other hand seems to be so universally beloved and hailed i just have no choice but to hate this book as long as i live haha. it’s mediocre at best and every time i hear someone say that it’s Objectively Good (sometimes in comparison to aftg) i wanna throw things at walls. every time i hear a booktuber say that soc is their favorite book i hate it a little more.

i also hated vicious by ve schwab. i saw it being recommended in many different contexts ranging from dark academia to ace protagonists and boy oh boy did it fail to deliver on every front. i was so frustrated while reading that i had to skim through the last third. (i don’t dnf don’t ask me why it’s weird i know)

if we were villains i could also be neutral about if people stopped putting it next to the secret history all the time. they are nothing alike. i’d explain but i don’t wanna sound like a snob.

last week i finished the hunger games and was thoroughly disappointed but i don’t have any strong feelings about it bcs it isn’t so popular anymore and people aren’t shoving it into my face as much as the above books. i wish i hadn’t wasted my time on it though.

lastly i have to mention loveless by alice oseman. idk if it can be called popular but i can see how it’s gonna come first on every aroace rep rec list and i just can’t get behind that.

some other books that are disappointing but very popular on booktube are the silent patient, the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, pet sematary, the thirteenth tale, the book thief, the final empire and the blade itself.

thank you for letting me be negative about books, i love doing that :D

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