• SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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    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.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve enjoyed the books, but they really seem that they need an aggressive editor. Being long for the sake of being long just doesn’t work.

      • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I didn’t realize how harsh my review sounded until re-reading it just now. I enjoyed the books too. Because the first one was so amazing, the rest were still good even though I felt like they got progressively worse with each book. I was pretty frustrated by the last one, and I was ready for it to end long before it did, but it was still entertaining. The series is a big achievement, it just needs tighter editing like you said, and I didn’t enjoy the mental health exposè. I don’t read fantasy to get messages about real world problems, I read fantasy to escape from the real world. All that said, I still strongly recommend WoK to people, I just let them decide on their own if they want to read any of the sequels.

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      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.