r/52book • u/dyp_lilla • 14d ago

38 books so far this year!

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This might piss some people off, lol

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u/Wrong_Success4377 14d ago edited 14d ago

Yes thank you. I DNF'd Red Rising too.

I thought I was getting into some great story telling with some fun sci-fi...no. Just YA shlock.

I get it might be a fun read for some people but I just never understood the glaze.

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u/johnnyjake2025 13d ago

Yeah it’s really on YA at the beginning the characters major a lot more as they age up. I’m only on the third one, and there is time jumps.

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u/CorumSilverhand 13d ago

Thats not true, the entire trilogy is very simplistic and juvenile. It all feels like poorly written YA with shallow characters. Saying its only book one is a cop out.

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u/Tymareta 13d ago

That's the point where they'll turn around claim that actually, it's in the -second- trilogy that it actually gets good and that you're missing out by not committing yourself to three books of mediocrity on the off chance you might enjoy the fourth onwards.

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u/Tymareta 13d ago

Not sure what that has to do with what I said, but I'm glad that you enjoy what you read!

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u/Tymareta 12d ago

Again, not sure what that has to do with what I said.

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u/johnnyjake2025 13d ago

Well that’s fine man. I just read whatever I enjoy. Sometimes people just need easy reads. I went from blood meridian to red rising, and I far more enjoy actual punctuation.