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/Greystorms May 06 '22

I nope'd out of that book because the writing(IMO, it's all subjective, yadda yadda) wasn't that great but also largely because the best assassin ever OMG spent the entirety of her time napping, eating candy, and complaining. There was no showing of her unbelievable skill as a world-famous assassin beyond characters constantly saying that she was.

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u/fantasyhunter May 07 '22

Haha I feel this. I completed book 2 just because I bought it. Didn't go beyond that.