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What book do you feel is/was kinda overhyped? (self.fiction)

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Like books that got very popular but you never really could get into.

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[–] yggdar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Indeed! I read all of the GoT books, and they are just not good. There does not appear to be any logic to the world. The dude just keeps adding elements, never explaining how they fit in the world. Just cheap tricks and twists that are based on nothing.

I enjoy good fantasy, and magic is a part of that. But a good fantasy world usually only has a few sources of magic, and somehow they are connected to create a world that's coherent and follows its own rules. Bad books just keep randomly adding new incoherent elements whenever the author gets stuck and refuse to explain anything:

Dragons
Bunches of different and unconnected gods
Weird shadow assassin creature created by two people having sex, and some kind of intervention from one of the random gods
White walkers
Weird trees up north
Bran's magical magic of magicness
The entire plot with assassin's that change face
...

It all honestly reminds me of a book that was written and self-published by a friend of a friend. It was self-published because they couldn't find a publisher that was interested... And every two damn pages they added a new random type of magic. Martin is just better at dressing it up and selling his crap, but I think Martin and that friend of a friend have similar world building skills.