How on earth is this so popular?
>>25469463I read the wikipedia summary. Sounds like a Japanese LN. School setting etc.
>>25469463I read the first few pages and it was like a YA parody or something.What is it with young people and categorizing each other?
>>25469463It is fun
>>25469463It's the Poppy War but written to be fun instead of the author seething about Mao
It's good but I read it in German, a language that I'm learning, so my cringe detection might be a little bit off.
>>25469463Second book is actually very good - that kind of thing leads to cult following. The real problem is that all the action is written like it's meant to be watched on TV. The guy was writing a screenplay in the wrong format.
>>25469463Reading it at the moment because I told my friend I would. I've been putting it off for months, now. The problem is, I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would, but I'm not enjoying it enough to want to keep reading it on. I want to try and bash it out in a week so I can get back to reading my tbr list but it's hard to be motivated.
>>25469463YA novel for young men and not young women. Same slop and tropes you;d expect from trash YA.
>>25469463We are not on earth. This is hell.
>>25470426I felt the same - had a friend reading it and thought I'd give it a try. It was awful for a while but I enjoyed myself enough to finish it, have the second a try because I may as well see what they're doing and really enjoyed that one. Finished the third and put it down. Honestly enjoyed the world building in the second/third but the plot was inevitable and he was searching for how to make that come to pass. Decent twists compared to Sanderson.
>>25469463One of the few post-millennium books aimed at boys and men that's widely printed.
>>25470660This makes sense, actually.
>>25470660>aimed at boys and menlol no
>>25470660I'm a man and didn't relate to it all, the protagonist is just given all the best genes and superpowers which lets him overpower his enemies, there's no struggle or sense of purpose to any of it
>>25469463Just remember that the vast majority of people are mid and have mid tastes.
>>25469463one of the managers at work wouldn't shut up about this so I read it and it was the most painfully average (at best) "fun" books. whjenever ppl suggest this kind of thing I know they read nothing transgressive or serious . he also mentioned book 2 making him cry or something.
>>25470660american apocalypse by kurt schlichter is the best post millennium printed book
>>25471138Is Conan the Barbarian also unrelatable to you because he's already buff and strong? All of this happens at the beginning of the book.
>>25470660If shallow power fantasies are all men are willing to read perhaps the industry was right to stop publishing books for them
>>25469463my manager described it as a book written for people who haven't read a book in 10 years and it made a lot of sense
>>25472365That describes most popular books published in the last 15 years, sadly.
