Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-98.247.168.42-20181122042639/@comment-37166538-20190423225052

Argh I've read this review before, I found it on Goodreads. AND IT MAKES ME SO FRUSTERATED. They honestly didn't even seem to give it a chance. They got it in their heads that it's a "Harry Potter rip-off" and then went with that line the entire time.

OH AND the gnomes 1) have dark skin because they sorta look like trees and 2) are NOT slaves to the elves. Honestly.

And here comes a rant.

They compared Dumbledore to Alina! Need I even explain why that's not true at all?

"Which brings me to my next gripe: Sophie, the Special Snowflake. When we first meet Sophie, we learn that she is twelve years old, telepathic, possessing a photographic memory, and a high school senior that has been accepted at Yale University. We also learn that she is ‘the prettiest girl in school’, that she is an unprecedentedly powerful telepath, sickeningly sweet and good, and everyone rushes to her aid at slightest provocation" - The Book Smugglers

I included that book because THEY SERIOUSLY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT. They literally are describing what an elf is in the human world (the high school/Yale stuff, being pretty, etc.) and what Project Moonlark is (the powerful telepath, etc.).

They are misleading people by saying that Sophie is this super desireable, hot girl that catches the attention of older boys. Seriously, she was hated in the human world! And in the elf world, her looks are just as good as everybody else's, not remarkably more -- plus, she's actually not that much younger than Keefe, or even Fitz!​​​​​

Another quote:

"Notable Quotes/Parts: HA HA HA. No.

Rating:

Ana: 2 – Complete waste of time

Thea: 3 – Very, Very Bad"

- The Book Smugglers

I WANT TO SCREAM. I may even be crying. This is SO RIDICULOUS. It's like they didn't even try to enjoy the book. If they even tried to read Exile they'd see that it's not a Harry Potter ripoff, and Sophie's super powerful for a reason. But no, it would be a "complete waste of time."

I'm sorry, this seems really harsh of me, but I really don't like the tone they used to describe this book. It just seemed to biased. They hardly gave it a chance. By Flashback, Keeper is hardly like Harry Potter at all.

It's even sadder reading the comments of people saying, "I would have read this book, but the review makes me not want to." NO NO NO NO NO PLEASE DO READ IT! YOU WON'T REGRET IT.

In conclusion, don't be so quick to judge! Love a book for what it is, and don't just point out how similar it is to another book. And don't make assumptions from the first book in a very long series, because lots of the sarcastic, rhetorical questions they had were addressed in later books.