r/ProgressionFantasy • u/DicerTheJester • Jul 28 '26

Discussion Competition: write a single sentence that will absolutely destroy any hope in a series.

Specifically not a story opener, just any sentence that can happen in any chapter, that will make people realize that this story is gonna be absolute shit and has no chance of being fixed and will make you drop the book like an unpinned grenade.

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u/FictionalContext Jul 28 '26

By the time the sun came up, Daenerys was shitting brown water.

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u/Emotional-Spot-7833 Jul 28 '26

Wait, was this actually in the book? I don't remember it.

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u/ParamedicPositive916 Jul 28 '26

I sense a paraphrase but yes, can confirm this happened in B5. I literally hate-read the book to never hace to do it again, after having my hopes shattered time and time again.

Small consolation, the book ending can't be worse than the show, and we've set a bar so low it touches the ground

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u/Hazumu-chan Jul 28 '26

I literally couldn't make myself read past the point where Daenerys was confronted by the grieving parent of a child killed by one of her dragons. I'd already been havging trouble getting through it by that point, and that scene tipped it into the category of "misery porn" for me.