What was your biggest fantasy book disappointment? (sopuli.xyz)

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[-] xNekoyaki@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Assassin's Apprentice :( It was a recommendation from one of my managers at work. I loved the other series he recommended (Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling, and Kristen Britain's Green Ranger books) so I was super excited to start. I have never read such a depressing book... I think I made it to the beginning of the third book, but I wasn't enjoying them, and I realized they were putting me in a weird mood, so I stopped.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Basically, title. On my side, it might be unpopular, but I was quite disappointed with the Mistborn Trilogy. The world is interesting, I like the concepts, but I could just not connect with the characters? I finished the first book and started the second but could not finish it.

[-] RudeGryphon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

This is blasphemy. But I respect you for taking the risk in saying this.

[-] dresden@discuss.online 0 points 1 year ago

Try some of the other series by Sanderson, it was his first series, and not the best written. If you don't like his other work too, then maybe he just isn't for you.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the advice!

[-] LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I found era 2 of mistborn to be way better. The same magic system I liked but now you add some modern guns/etc. The characters are way better imo.

[-] dom@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Have you read way of kings? Different series, better characters

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

I know, I might give it a try later

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Way of Kings is incomparable. A shining achievement. Unfortunately each following book in the series gets worse, until the last one is just an overly long exposè on mental health problems.

[-] Strae@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Holy shit yes. I thought Way of Kings was incredible, and thought I found my favorite book series. Then the next book was fine, and the third book was so insufferable I quit after 800 pages. Never even made it to book four, which I hear is even worse.

[-] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Ed Greenwood's Elminster series. It gets so much word-of-mouth for being the basis of the Forgotten Realms but it's honestly some of the worst fantasy writing I've ever forced myself through.

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

Jordan's Wheel of Time. Inside that massive stack of dead trees I think there might be a pretty decent trilogy struggling to get out, but I wasn't willing to read the rest of the stuff in order to find it. Dropped it somewhere around book four or five and never looked back.

[-] FullOfBallooons@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I dropped WoT around the same spot. The story itself wasn't bad, but if I have to read about one more person straightening their skirt or tugging their braid I was going to explode.

[-] LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Ditto. Same spot, same issues.

[-] Panties@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Malazan probably. So many people love it, and it looked like something I'd like, I even had a friend also reading it with me. I wanted to like it so much. After one and half books, I realized I couldn't care less about what happened to any of the characters and I didn't understand anything about the magic stuff, so I stopped reading.

[-] degrix@lemmy.hqueue.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It just did not resonate with me in February slightest and didn’t get enjoyable until the final few chapters. I can appreciate it from a literary standpoint. The prose is lovely and the tone is spot on for what she was trying to achieve, but my goodness did I feel annoyed while making my way through it.