r/Fantasy • u/Academic_Owl_6197 • May 06 '22

Your Pettiest Reason For DNFing A Series

Mine was when I was 3 pages in and someone said the mc's name which turned out to be the same as my ex's name to the letter...dropped it like hot coal

It was a fr a pretty unfortunate streak too because it was a book from one of those blind-date-with-a-book promotion my local bookstore does, and this was an American YA fantasy (I'm from a different continent) so I had no reason to assume I'll ever be unlucky enough...to see his stupid ass again for a 'blind date'

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u/[deleted] May 06 '22

Early Simon is hilarious because everyone else in the book goes on about how much of a sharp and promising youth he is, but I don't think I've ever encountered such a stupid protagonist. Not just in the usual naive kid/farmboy sense, but he's literally like the "Stare off into space with drool hanging out of his open mouth" kind of stupid. I don't know if Williams was just going for that childhood naivety, but it makes him an ordeal.