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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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[–] darq@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah. The main character is just unnaturally talented at everything. Music and magic and so on. And not just talented, masterfully talented. Except then he also sometimes just makes tremendously stupid decisions for some reason? Which felt like plot contrivances to generate conflict.

And on the other side, the antagonists also felt very flat to me. They are bad because they oppose the protagonist, and therefore they do bad things and are unlikable.

I have heard people talk about the story being narrated by Kvothe himself, and so there are likely "liberties" taken. He does say he may exaggerate. But how much book does one have to slog through before the payoff of the unreliable narrator lands?