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frogspawned · 2 years

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i hate it when a story can’t commit to the bit. nothing makes me drop a book faster than a writer reneging on their own rules. like, you made it up! you can change the rules, no matter how outlandish, to serve the plot you want. and then you just do... that. it’s weak

#sometimes complex characters/relationships can save it but they're very shallow so far and i am more than halfway through #this is about vicious by VE Schwab #i had high hopes for it -- i love unique takes on the superhero genre #but it reads like someone trying to do a subversion of a genre they don't read #also like....... the characters being like 'ah fashion has changed so much i cannot keep up with it' my man it has been 10 years #if you are going to play the old man card you have to have an OLD MAN and not a thirty year old lmao #anyways. saying something is a cryptid/not in the mainstream belief and then having a literal detective in some random town explicitly #assigned to dealing with Our Superheroes Are Different people. and having one shoot up a bank with powers. and having like. 12 of them #in the same city #it just doesn't seem very well thought out #lots of tell don't show and not particularly interesting characters. mostly just sort of murderous #which isn't the same thing as complex or intriguing. despite the book telling me over and over it is. lol #frog croaks

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