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@starzenno

Жыл бұрын

The Throne of Glass series will definitely be a roller coaster 😏

@ghastlymagician3336

Жыл бұрын

Honestly, I would say the Crescent City books by Sarah J Mass are worth a shot. There are adult themes and things going on in the books, as she is well known for. But it is actually handled well, fits into the plot, and doesn't overstay its welcome so far. The story is interesting, and it has some downright action-packed and brutal moments in it that are awesome. However, take all this with a grain of salt. As I learned with this author, she can turn everything on its head and not in a good way, and there are only 2 of the five book series out at the moment.

@Deni-mt9bj

Жыл бұрын

@@ghastlymagician3336I really liked the fist one but the second book in CC was just plain adult cringe content.

@momo_genX

Жыл бұрын

Only if you want to 🤮

@ghastlymagician3336

Жыл бұрын

@Deni-mt9bj oh for sure there was that in the book, I just thought considering it was used in relation to the plot device for the book, and not just thrown in there for fillers sake, like a lot of those style of books tend to do, it would be a better option then some others.

This is why I think fantasy romance needs to be marketed in the romance section as it is its own distinct thing from adult fantasy.

@MargueriteKrux2

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree with you! Also it's highly annoying when there's so many romantasy books between the actual fantasy and you more or less have to look inside the book to see if it's free of spice. Nothing against spice or romance, but I want real fantasy where said topics are basically bystanders to the story, but not the center of it

@gizzmowalliss

Жыл бұрын

They should just make a new sections for romance fantasy.

@searchanddiscover

Жыл бұрын

​@@sk4348 i actually prefer fantasy romance myself, (tho not interested in any of the popular series) but hate that it is mixed with with regular fantasy because they are so night and day. the bookstores aren't even consistent about it, like stuff like fourth wing and acotar is in fantasy while similar stuff such as plated prisoner and fbaa are in romance. which means if the reader wants similar stories you have to look in both sections and its really hard trying to navigate the fantasy section because its not romance. i think it would be good for both readers to separate the two so readers get what they want more easily.

@searchanddiscover

Жыл бұрын

Literary would be shelved in general fiction here. But romance would basically include smut, erotica and regular romance stuff you see in regency and contemporary. There is also paranormal but fantasy romance has started to replace that. It just needs to be better understood bc adult fantasy should be for books that focus on fantasy elements first. General rule of thumb is if you can remove the romance and still have a story then it’s not romance. If the story falls apart it’s romance first most.

@Merian8

11 ай бұрын

But it is still adult fantasy, it simply has romance. This book isn’t focused on the romance, so it wouldn’t make sense to distinguish it as romance fantasy. Yes, I’ve read it.

“Just got back from Church-time to finish Fourth Wing.”💀

@libraryofaviking

Жыл бұрын

Yup 😆

The thing the botters me the most about those "romantasy" books is that they read like YA, in both the writing and the more superficial exploration of themes, and at the same time posess A LOT of gore and sexual content. It causes confusion, since it feels like the writters dont really know for whom they writting for, teens or adults. I loved your video tho 😂 your reaction was so funny

@nishthagupta1357

Жыл бұрын

Ig both😂

@vcarr938

Жыл бұрын

I also feel like many times the characters come across as very young/teenager-ish so when they are...partaking (lmao) it just feels wrong to be reading.

@Nassaldromus

11 ай бұрын

@@vcarr938 true. They read like she's 14 and he's 17

@NijiKonohana

8 ай бұрын

I think when you say "it reads like YA", you are probably referring to the fact that it has... subpar writing. Which is often the case for 90% of the books published in the YA genre. However, the issue comes when these subpar writers are also horny adults who are eager to write smut and 'adult' themes. So they go ahead and write these books, but because their writing capabilities are nowhere near actual literary authors, they just shoehorn it into the YA section where they know it will be accepted. Hence, there's no real audience they are writing it for. It's just their own smut fantasies vomited out on a page. Now, I'm not saying that ALL YA books are subpar. It is just that in the last few decades the genre has become so inundated with mediocrity that people don't even question it anymore.

@claudiabailey5302

4 ай бұрын

There is a warning in the book telling you what it contains and the front cover isn’t subtle so the publisher or author cant be blamed on this one. Also for me this not proper fantasy it’s romantasy where fantasy is in the background and is just used for romance purposes which is why there is no major world building.

I feel like the new adult fantasy (what this is marketed as on GRs) is fast becoming by word for YA level plot but smutty.

@adoniscreed4031

Жыл бұрын

Yeah this is either gonna split into its separate category of Adult Fantasy or we're gonna find a whole new age range between YA and Adult 😂 Youngish Adult 😂 jk jk

@Nassaldromus

11 ай бұрын

That's how it reads. High schoolers pretending to be 20 so they can go around adulting.

@franciscocarranza4260

11 ай бұрын

The problem is the prespective and the writing. It's a lot of words.

@rosssims7224

11 ай бұрын

That’s accurate. I want my fantasy high and my smut separate 😂

@GummyDinosaursify

8 ай бұрын

Wasn't new adult _always_ just YA but smutty?

…so my friend group we all decided to read it. 3 guys and one gal. The whole “I’ want to climb him like a tree” that just got us all.

Not Christian, but I also do not enjoy smut in my books. Thanks for the heads up, this would most definitely not be for me.

@MandiMoons

11 ай бұрын

SAME! it takes me out of the story honestly. in the ACOTAR series everyone is obsessed with chapter 55 yet my favorite one was 54 because it actually brought the depth of the story deeper.

@franciscocarranza4260

11 ай бұрын

Out of curiousity, what is considered smut? There's a big difference between sex for sex sake and sex for a reason. Are novelists supposed avoid sex in novels? I mean there are a majority of writers out there writing terrible sex scenes and a majority of such sex scenes are hetero (so that's a whole other conversation).

Anne McCaffrey’s “Dragonriders of Pern” had the same type of urge-sharing bond between humans and dragons. So it has been done before. I agree, it just isn’t for me either

Hey Jóhan! Thank you so much for letting me sponsor one of your videos. Always loved your content so this is a real treat. I'm quite the dragon fan myself, but this made me think of the Eragon sort of mind meld, so imagining that in an explicit scenario did give me the chills for a second.

You and Reagan both hating this book reminded me once again why you're my favourite BookTubers. Thank you for your sacrifice 🫡

You said you don’t read a lot of YA but you should totally read Aurelian cycle by Rosaria Munda. The dragons have are good and the characters are also good. The politics it talks about are amazing. Political fantasy with dragons.

@MTCesquire

10 ай бұрын

See, THIS is more of what I was expecting. When I hear dragons, I think GoT, and one of the best aspects of GoT were the politics of it, the alliances, the strategy, etc. Instead we get a Danielle Steel novel with magic and dragons. Disappointed isn't the word.

Horses are majestic, unless you watch them daily farting and trying to mate. Animals mating is gross. No dragon lust, please.

I was curious over the hype but not anymore. Thank you for sacrificing for the rest of us 😅

I think what makes the whole ‚feeling hrny bc her dragon is‘ situation even worse is that her relationship to her dragon feels kinda like a father daughter relationship doesnt it?😅 which makes xaden her step brother in some way….

I'm definitely loving the vlog format

@libraryofaviking

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@mattamant915

Жыл бұрын

@@libraryofaviking you're welcome. As for the content of this book, I'll leave that to my wife to read 😂🤣

Oh man, I was waiting for this review. This is awesome :) However, I do find it strange to have a sponsor for a book you haven't read, in a review for another book?

Love this video. Was laughing so hard. I was waiting for you to reach the adult part. Thanks for the good time :D

Now that you got that out of the way The Aurelian Cycle is MUCH better. Dragon riding, excellent politics and digging into moral questions, excellent pacing and plot, intriguing characters, and just a little angst. I highly recommend it. Fireborne is the first book!

@libraryofaviking

Жыл бұрын

Oh I have heard great things about that one! Thanks for the recommendation!

@Aldarion65

11 ай бұрын

thank you for commenting this because I was looking for a book series that had the dragons and riding in it without the awkward sex scenes in it, I enjoyed Fourth Wing if it wasnt for the sexual parts, I thought the story itself was quite good

Thank you for taking one for the team! With my TBR as long as it is and so many great books on it, this is an easy one to avoid.

@rosssims7224

11 ай бұрын

It’s hard cause I want to give in to the hype cause it’s shiny and new but I agree, all the booktubers I admire say it’s trash so I should prolly pass

This is definitely one of your funniest contents🤣 Please keep doing this kind of video

You are a trooper, sir, and if I could, I would buy you that beer myself, lol. But you sound like me after I read the A Court of Thorns and Roses series, because a dear friend of mine asked me to. Started off well enough, but by the end, I was questioning the meaning of life 😅.

@Nassaldromus

11 ай бұрын

That series... I didn't get past the first book. I think this one could be much better, but way out of line with the sexual contents.

I’m cackling while listening to this. I happen to adore angsty teenage romance sprinkled amongst my grimdark. While kind of low key mocking myself for reading it.🙈 I haven’t had a chance to read Fourth Wing yet, but there is an uncomfortably large chance I will actually like it. But it will not be one of the books I take along to church.😅

@libraryofaviking

Жыл бұрын

Haha glad you are enjoying my pain 😆 I hope you will enjoy it if you pick it up!

Me too i totally agreed with it. The way it has been hyped up the way it has such positive reviews. I was caught in this read the most popular to end up being disappointed.😅

Congratulations that you made it to the end 😂. I dnf'ed it half way through...i simply couldn't go on 😂. In the beginning I found it was ok and I was interested which way it will go to...well, I'll never know 😆

Thanks for the review and saving me time, money. I hate when they throw smut in! It really isn’t necessary.

I think your conclusions are totally fair! I enjoyed Fourth Wing but I liked the first half a lot better for the same reasons as you. I'm more of an Epic Fantasy reader than a Romance Fantasy reader myself. I'd love to hear what your wife thinks of it XD

😂😂🤣🤣 I love that you mostly share positive content, but these rant reviews are priceless 😂😂😂

LOL your wife sounds hilarious. Great video. I was debating picking this one up or not.

@libraryofaviking

Жыл бұрын

Haha she's amazing! Thank you!

Yep, my experience was similar. I ended up thinking it was far ‘less bad’ than I thought

@libraryofaviking

Жыл бұрын

Sorry you had a similar experience!

I like the vlog theme, but in the future I think you should stick to books that are on your TBR

There is precedent in fantasy for doing something like this. I'm not telling you that you should like it, only that others have done this. I'm mainly thinking of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of PERN series does this, too.

@patforden-kc6xn

6 ай бұрын

I agree. And if you were shocked at horny dragons, best to avoid reading about when the Queen rises to mate, chased by several male dragons and the actual consumation not necessarily consensual and definitely not gentle. I don't understand the use of h*rny or s*x to describe horny and sex. Wtaf???

That was the point of scene where her dragon didn’t shield her from his feelings, and then both main characters questioned their feelings because thought it was because their dragons felt this way. But they learned to shield, to separate their own emotions (at least Vi did, Xaden already knew how to do it but he was in denial of his feelings 🤷‍♀️😂) IDK, it worked for me 😁 I was facepalming and laughed, but I loved the rest of the story so all these romantic stuff didn’t destroy the book for me 😁

@libraryofaviking

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that's a valid point! I am really glad you enjoyed the book;

Cuando leo autoras nuevas, no suelo buscar que han publicado previamente, pero en este caso por alguna razon lo busqué y me quedé un poco sorprendida porque todos sus libros anteriores se veian muy lejos de la fantasía y mas de "relaciones tormentosas" y pues al terminar de leerlo me di cuenta de una frase: uno nunca puede negar sus raíces 😂😅

This was hilarious. Nice job.

@libraryofaviking

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it 😆

Nothing better to follow up a lovely Sunday morning Church visit than with Fourth Wing 🤣🤣 I definitely enjoyed this a lot more than you did, but purely on a 'this is escapist brain candy' kinda level, hahah. Nice experiment, I loved the vlog style! 🤩

@libraryofaviking

Жыл бұрын

Haha definitely a big contrast 😂 I am glad you enjoyed it!

ohh yes, I was waiting for this one hahah

Fourth wing was terrible. I just finished it and it started off good but then once it got into the sex stuff my god it was AWFUL. The best parts of it(dragons and magic) are about 5% of the entire novel

Nice video! How about trying the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.

Something like that happend in Eragon too, Eragon was thinking in romantic way about Arya, and Saphira felt that too.

I wasn't following booktube for a while so when I found this video I wondered why you picked this book....Jesus Christ this book is EVERYWHERE 😂

I would like to recommend a 3 book trilogy from Rebecca schefaer. Not Even Bones, Only Ashes Remain, When Villains Rise.

@libraryofaviking

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the recommendation!

@ShammyKat

Жыл бұрын

LOVE these books. I do admit, the first book to me is a little rough, and I personally felt like it needed more work before publishing. But by the second book her quality in writing improved 10 fold!

This was hilarious! Very happy to see you wearing your Christianity on your sleeve. Ybic

Hey man! How about a Dragon fantasy Top 10 list and/or Tier list?

@libraryofaviking

Жыл бұрын

Good idea 👀

@starzenno

Жыл бұрын

@@libraryofaviking yoooo lets goo

@daliblue_

Жыл бұрын

Yesssss

You read the dragonriders of perm, a scifi dragon staple?! :P

My feelings towards angsty YA marketed as Adult Fantasy : I DNFed "Atlas Six" at page 8. I don't mind it there is some romance in my Fantasy books, I don't mind if some things are implied but I rather not have the details. For example the explicit details from "The Green Bone Saga" and "The Broken Earth" felt unnecessary and added just for shock value. And I am saying that even though I loved both series.

@Merian8

11 ай бұрын

But are you talking just about the sexual themes, or other things in general too? Because shock value isn’t just about sex. Genuinely asking!

This is the best fourth wing review I’ve seen haha

I think this was a pretty fair review. I liked the setting and the pacing and the representation of EDS and having a character who is deaf. But if you don't like enemies to lovers or explicit scenes, then for sure it's probably not the book for you, which is perfectly valid.

@javierlopez9789

3 ай бұрын

Yeah i really hate the whole enemies to lovers thing, mostly because of how unrealistic it is, it's like a 13 year old romanticizing the way two people simply don't like each other, i just can't take it seriously (especially when they make grown people act like horny teenagers), also according to most authors an "enemy" is just a mean person, like sure lol. I was gonna read the book but luckily my cousin warned me about it's actual "plot" if we can call it that.

I love this review! I mean I'm sorry that it made you uncomfortable but your honesty is refreshing 🙂 However well done to finishing it. Probs not for me tbh so I thank you sir for sacrificing your time to read it so I don't have to 😁

I love this 😂😂 brilliant I was going to say now your wife needs to read it too 😂😂

I don't know why but I nope out when a book is marketed as smut

I’m glad you read it so I don’t have to 😂. Your suffering was not in vain!

Thanks for saving me the read. I hate love triangles. A tad of romance is okay but I mean not too much. I love dragons, my favorite dragon authors are Patricia C Wrede though placed ya it's just good fun fantasy and you'd like it. Then Barbara Hambly. Bella L

This is weird. I was shopping in Waterstones just this morning and three people had this in there posession around one of the tables and they seemed extremely excited.

Screw the book, how was the jam?

So it turned out to be furrybait smut.

This is HILARIOUS as to how kind of innocent this is. But curious...are we to be okay with violence of men and war and not sex and sexuality?

What did you think about Hunger Games?

Yeah, I am questioning the romance between the two main characters due to the link with dragons. I loved it for the other parts of the book but the romance was the weakest part. Also do read more weird books. I had picked it up for the stencilled edges and it was before it exploded all over social media.

I was hoping this would be similar to Anne McCaffery's Pern? Maybe I should just go back and read McCaffery. There's about 5 seconds of sex but most of it is Thread trying to burn everyone's faces off. If I am going to read smut, I kind of want a heads up. Lol.

I like Genuinely can’t tell if people hate this book Or love it secretly and just Are uncomfortable

I audibly laughed at at the seven minute mark 😂😂😂 this is what I watch KZread for

@stefanielozinski

Жыл бұрын

Update: walking down the street, uncontrollably cracked up when you talked about this book stretching your imagination 😅 imagining dragons a little tooooo much

if you're looking for Christian sci fi and fantasy I'd recommend: Brother Wolf by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson - Christian take on werewolf stories A Bloody Habit by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson - Christian take on vampires Eifelheim by Michael Flynn - first contact story in Middle Ages Germany A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr - Catholic monastery in the aftermath of World War 3 And Tim Powers' work in general has a Christian undercurrent but especially in his novel Declare. Though his work does lean towards historical fiction than just fantasy.

That happened one because Xaden help Violet to block Tairn’s feelings. So, it is worth it to read Iron Flame.

So its basically a book form of that Rick and Morty episode

It sounds like an attempt to modernize the Dragonriders of Pern.

this is how I felt reading this book too! started off alright very YA and then it just went weird. I feel it would of been better without the weird dragon shhmuut. I think this would be higher on my like list if this stayed YA and left out the random dragon spice and had more world building.

How is this YA?? Just the blurb would turn me away. Yeah definitely go back to church Johan looooool

I flee if I sniff even a hint of romantasy. The whole book screams at me visually :D

I feel like everyone one thinks there is to much romance in this book, i agre it a litle graphic, but the next book is brobably going to go more in depth in the universe wile as Xaden and Violet relationship become more off a side subject.

Jóhan learning about Omegaverse for the first time =)))) anw, I also don't want to read about Dragon in heat, not the mystical majestic being I know being reduced to housed dogs

This reminds me of Along the Razor's Edge. There's a certain scene in the later half of the book I just couldn't get over. Completely destroyed the flow of the story and I ended up dropping the whole series.

8:43 sooooo I'm guessing you've never read anything in Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series? 😂 Two words: mating flights. Pern was one of the OG dragonrider series and, contrary to initial appearances, technically is sci-fi rather than fantasy. For romantasy recs that an epic fantasy reader would enjoy, I'm gonna recommend Melanie Cellier's Spoken Mage series. She's self-published and writes clean romance. Most of her back catalogue is fairytale retellings, but the Spoken Mage series is an original world and I found it a nice fun read as someone who almost exclusively reads epic fantasy. The romance storyline is pretty trope-y (common-born girl discovers she has special magic; gets sent to magic school where the brooding, aloof prince happens to be her classmate) but there's a decent epic fantasy storyline and magic system that is the main focus. If you enjoy the Spoken Mage books, there's also a sequel series set 20 years later called the Hidden Mage which follows the next generation and ties up some of the smaller loose ends to do with the magic that weren't resolved by the end of the Spoken Mage series.

@libraryofaviking

Жыл бұрын

I haven't yet but it's on my tbr! Thank you for the recommendation!

Is that episode of Rick and Morty where rick bonds with his horny dragon based on this book??

This was the same issue I had with the book. First half was fun, school vibes, challenges, making friends, overcoming fears and using her knowledge from being a scribe to survive. ..... Then the second half happens : / . goes to ultra horny, and unhealthy obsession with Riorson and depletes the plot. When you were reading about his muscles I spat my water out! It sounds ridiculous when ya read it out loud. I cant stop laughing.

Oh dear. Please avoid Nocticadia, I had the misfortune of reading it and cringed the entire time. 🤣

@libraryofaviking

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the warning 😅

Thats the most *I'm so done* title i have ever seen you put on a video lmao

I take no responsibility at all for putting you through this 😂😂😂

Why do you act surprised. A lot of dragon books the dragon is mentally attached to their rider and share the thoughts and emotions. Inheritance cycle by Christopher Palani for example

Wish there was more focus on the human-dragon relationship, like, sometimes there are whole chapters in which there is practically NO dialogue with dragons...

Yes! More to the vlogs! For me, the problem with romantasy and romance in general, is that it’s only rarely about romance and almost entirely about sexual attraction. And the whole added dragon element? No. Just no. Absolutely not.

I started and could not get pass the first 5 pages! First of all the use of modern slang in a medieval setting was a hard nope for me!!!!

Thank you for reading it so I don't have to. 😂

The part about their dragons being horny is actually so… minimal? It’s talked about so much in this video that it sounds like it’s recurrent or super important but it’s not. It’s a single scene from the MCs POV who happens to be feeling what they’re feeling, but the scene is focused on HER, not on the dragons. It is weird to sexualize dragons and I did find it weird to read, but about the dragons themselves, it’s very minimal! I think it’s a bit blown out of proportion in this video, tbh!

Not every book is for everyone! I think to be a christian or not to be has nothing to do with the review of the book and repeating the same argument doesn`t make it better. Probably this book isn`t for me either, but I`m a little turned off (sic! I`m no dragon!) by this sarcastic style. So, there you have my honest comment, but I don`t want to offend you, I like your other stuff.

I made it through The 4th Wing then it was time for Iron Flame, both audiobooks. Needless to say I couldn't make it through the Iron Flame. Between the narrator's burbs and teenie bop obsession with Xaden I couldn't finish. I was drawn to the dragons and magic powers of course but The Fifty Shades of Grey/Twilight/Eragon mashup was too much. All of the high ratings have to be from girls from the ages of 15 to 25. I thought I could make it through it but nah, I'm good.

Now I am really glad I sold my copy.

This is a teen tv drama where the dumb prose is on and the author thinks that romance is p@rn. Why it has this much hype and this high ratings? Bc nobody will read it and rate it outside acotar fans. That’s it. And Twilight fans. That gives the level.

Theres a reason that i rarely *aka never* read hyped up tiktok darlings that fall into the romance YA genre, its not written for me, and my TBR is hundreds of books long, I dont have the time to read shit like this that i KNOW i wont enjoy Sorry for your loss of time

It is just Twilight 2.0, big media repercusion and publisized under the fantasy tag, may be good or an ok romance novel but also a terrible as a fantasy novel because as i said they use fantasy as the bait not as the main focus of the story.

It begans so good (well, I could live with less whinning about how weak the MC is) the story has good potential, there was the dragons bonding magic mystery... then screeching halt to the action... I hope to give it more than 3 stars but...

I like romance but not when it is described like this. Romance is a tool for writing i dont think it should ever over shadow the plot of the story unless the plot is specifically tied to it which is better done with fade to black. This is just smut

I like the name and I love the book cover but it sounds like the whole book it a bunch of great ideas 💡 and wasted potential.

Christian fiction is a worthy video. I'm always on the lookout for Christian fantasy and science fiction. Christian romance is covered pretty well. 😆

@libraryofaviking

Жыл бұрын

It's definitely a subgenre I need to explore more!

@stefanielozinski

Жыл бұрын

As a Christian fantasy author and reader, I concur!!!

@victoriakeller3761

Жыл бұрын

@@eurydiceshadowcry Any readers who were squicked out by Fourth Wing's dragon-influenced-lust should read content warnings for Pern, which literally does this in a non-consensual way with the main characters. Dragonflight (Book 1): "He had not thought to control his dragon-incited emotions, and Lessa’s first s3xual experience had been violent...He had been a considerate and gentle bedmate ever since, but, unless Ramoth and Mnementh were involved, he might as well call it r@pe." Several of the Pern books do this. Dragonsong does not, and is probably the safest/best option of the early books. Just wanted to warn anybody who was interested in dragon books, I was not expecting SA in the Pern books and it caught me offguard.

Man you gotta read more YA now This was really enjoyable lmao

@libraryofaviking

Жыл бұрын

Hahah don't tempt me 😂

Wait wasn't this a Rick and Morty episode? 😳

funny, fantasy lover and christian?? Subscribed😂

the worst part about this book was that the book without the screwing dragons and obsessed humans was awesome imo, she wrote a good book and added sex into it for no reason, I am 36 years old and was listening to the audiobook while playing BG3 and got embarrassed for the writer a couple times lol

@Nassaldromus

11 ай бұрын

Yes. It would have been better without the explicit sex. Also, I think that if a male author had a male character speaking about a girl the way Violet talks about Xaden, it would be heavily criticized if even published at all.

@Aldarion65

11 ай бұрын

@@Nassaldromus agreed

This is how I felt about book 1 the Bound and the Broken. It felt like AI had mashed together Eragon, Magician and WOT and thrown in plot craters and zero ability to write females. Petrik assured me book 2 is a huge step up, and most give book 2 a 4 star rating. So I am confused at the huge rating book 1 gets ?? The hype is enormous round this series. However I do note main KZreadrs are avoiding rating book 1 on its own, always pairing it with a later novella. Probably the worst book I have read in years on prose, plot, characters and complete lack of anything original, but it’s a YT darling. So seeing Fourth Wing get similar hype I have avoided Fourth Wing 😊. It’s as if the hype blocks most from giving a serious review in case the fans go for them. Most fun dragon bond find this year is the SPFBO 9 The Blood-born Dragon by JC Rycroft. Squid is just adorable, and Des not your standard “heroine” very engaging and easy to read. I finished it and just wanted more so grabbed the prequel novella A Hired Blade, also great ❤

I get the sense you haven't read any of the Dragonriders of Pern books ;)

@libraryofaviking

Жыл бұрын

Not yet but they are on my tbr! Surely they are not the same as Fourth Wing!?

@e.d.m3076

Жыл бұрын

@@libraryofaviking Based on your video, I'd say they're quite different, but Fourth Wing has taken some inspiration from Pern. In the Pern world, dragons and their riders have an intense psychic connection, which means that when dragons mate, their riders get exceptionally randy.

@cjdflkj

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I loved this style of video! - I've definitely dnf'd books where the smut gets to much. As a Christian myself, I just don't want to read that sort of stuff. It's meant to be kept between you, your spouse & God. If you're looking for Christian sci-fi/fantasy, I highly recommend Ted Dekker's Circle series as well as his book with Frank Peretti; House. It's more horror but as I know you've entioned you've read Stephen King, you'll be fine. God bless & keep up the good work 💙