Yet another book I'm reading because of a girl. It was pitched to me as "Harry Potter meets Twilight" so you can already tell this shit probably sucks. I obviously cannot tell her that I think so (I could, however, just not read the book, but I'm literally so pathetic that I'm delaying good dragon smut book (A Feast for Crows) with this commercial YAF dragon smut. So far it's only slightly less insufferable than R.F. Kuang.

"People die all too often here for them to just hand out ranks" doesn't make any sense. If anything, being shorthanded on military staff would imply inflation of rank.

Kind of annoying that it's apparently obvious that Griffins have a hard time breathing at high altitude because they're lion + eagle (famously bad at breathing at high altitude). Apparently dragons have no issue with this (no citation provided because it's fantasy and this is just a shitty plot point to motivate a +10 points to Gryffindor moment)

Justifying an attack on an outpost village because the bad guys (bad because we said so, trust us :tm:) keep denying the peace deals (bc u keep raiding them) is such a lazy and politically bankrupt backdrop for a nation at war, from the narrative perspective of a supposed historian. These things aren't supposed to matter, dear reader, what you need to be focused on is all the sucking and fucking that's going on in the barracks. This book is so horny. It's 100% the genre of tiktok smut for women who are too goody-goody to watch porn. Instead we get 500 pages of "cool, meek, but against-all-odds-the-hero military woman who gets dommed by her now-hunk childhood best friend who is so muscular and chiseled and has stubble uWu"

I feel like I need an adult after reading the first few chapters – no idea how people recommend this book to one another, it feels like trying to compare notes on Fifty Shades but she rec'd it to me soooooo ¯\(ツ)/¯

Would you be surprised if I said the main character is dumb?

would you be surprised if I said that the combat is dumb?

would you be surprised if I said that the male characters are dumb?

would you be surprised if I said that the sex is dumb?

would you be surprised if I said that the word "macabre" has been used 4x so far?

helpless female protag is empowered when wrong person tries to take care of her, but it's hot when right guy becomes overprotective. actually very true to form and woman-coded ig (playing to a masc perception of a shitty female protagonist, not sure what this means just yet...)

macabre mentioned dude this suck, why am I doing this to myself

young men should never read the word "clit" it's not meant to be read by us

Subloxate is the new macabre. Similar to a sandolanche, Yarros employs a clitoralanche and a cocklanche, and a gliding tongue-lanche. The first 350 pages are really just a cringe copy/paste of Eragon + fucking.

related