/lit/ - Literature

>>13712577
People here like to meme on it without giving any real reasons, so I'll try and explain why they're right. First one is a good underdog story, second one is alright, but then it devolves into anime bullshit with everyone having their own special snowflake powers like the Jutsus in fucking Naruto and it all goes speeding downhill from there. The anime powers are introduced in the prologue, but that will not prepare you for how dumb they become as you realize his powers were just one of like fucking ten different kinds. Also the female MC is intolerable, at least to me. Her entire personality seems to be smartass and Branderson likes to wank her abusive childhood too much.

It gets so stupid I had to retroactively go back and say I didn't like the first book either. Also--and this is nearly impossible to describe properly but I will try anyway--almost everything he introduces in-universe feels like he's smiling smugly behind the text thinking, "aren't I so clever?" Just the way he brings things up and references them feels way too self-serving, but that's just the feeling I got even as I was enjoying the first book, and it's something I never felt when reading works from his apparent paragon, Robert Jordan.

Basically, all Branderson wants to do is worldbuilding and seems to get annoyed at all the story stuff he needs to put in between, which is weird considering his prose is pretty basic where you'd expect some grand descriptions.

If you're fine with anime bullshit, then by all means, but just be aware that it starts to taste heavily of YA after the second book.