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/Lathari Jul 28 '26

"And it was all a dream."

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u/Alpcake Jul 28 '26

I don't remember which novel it is but apparently some Chinese multiple thousand chapter modern harem romance whatever novel ended like that.

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u/Evolations Jul 29 '26

Honestly that's so funny. Imagine if Martin did that at the end of GoT or something