Board Thread:Clubs/@comment-38091275-20191020151218/@comment-38544901-20191111012207

Aspen the leafwing-rainwing-sandwing tribrid wrote: ^ For starters, I found it had a super bleak, dreary, depressing atmosphere... dark books are okay, I mean, I'll be read Les Miserables soon lol, but this just felt gray and sorta like it was super gloomy just for the sake of being gloomy... next, I could not STAND Celeana (is that how you spell it? It's been like a year-and-a-half) she's exactly the kind of whiny, self-centered character that I hate. Then, for being the 'world's greatest assassin'- well, not impressed. WHO EATS RANDOM CHOCOLATES WHEN THEY KNOW THERE'S A BUNCH OF MURDERS GOING ON? Oof, sorry. But seriously. Her supposedly brilliant fighting skills: don't get to see much of those, do we? Also, I hate how romance-focused she is... I'm all for tough but girly girls, but don't tell me the 'world's greatest assassin' wouldn't prioritise. As for how romance-focused the book itself is... I came for a cool assassin story and what did I get? A drawn-out love triangle where I thought both options were ABSOLUTELY terrible. Great. (Plus, I insanely ship but still dislike romances which made it difficult- a few cute moments on the side, maybe writing them together in the course of the story: sure, why not? (friendships are better tho) But romance, romance, romance, not even half-decent chemistry between the characters and the romance taking over the plot: no thanks!)

P.S. Am I the only person who thinks that the ships in very romance-focused books- or romances, obviously- are never as cute as ships in more plot-focused books where they jsut sort of happen on the side? Did you only read the first book? Because I can agree with a lot of this in regards to book 1 but the rest of the books do break out of that a bit. I also like books that are gloomy just to be glommy.