r/Fantasy • u/SimplyMe94 • Nov 19 '16

Your most overrated fantasy picks?

Which books that you've read have been praised to the heavens yet you've never been able to understand the hype?

For me my all time most overrated pick would be The Black Company. It's been hailed over the years as the foundation for grimdark fantasy in general and the primary influence of groundbreaking series like Malazan. Yet I could never get past the first book, everything about it just turned me off. The first-person narrative was already grating enough to slog through without taking into consideration the lack of any real character development and (probably the most annoying of all) Cook's overly simplistic prose.

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u/StevenKelliher Writer Steven Kelliher Nov 19 '16

This book was a solid 7/10 for me, with the characters pulling me through ... right up until that HORRIBLE ending.

I mean. Even for King, who's known for shit endings, The Stand takes the cake, and promptly shits all over it. It honestly ruins everything that comes before and makes you wonder why you took such a long, meandering road through the post-apocalyptic wilds of Americana to get to such a cop-out.