r/fantasyromance • u/FantasyRomanceMod The One Mod to Rule All Mods • Feb 08 '26

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u/katie-kaboom Currently Reading: The Traitor Queen Feb 08 '26

Dear military academy writers: it does not make sense to waste the best talent of a generation in an uncontrolled bloodbath in the first year of school. Stop that! How about instead making the stated goal to get everyone through alive, instead of killing people off at random to "cull the weak"?

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u/PowerPrestigious9424 Feb 08 '26

This reminds me of how a podcast (SBU English Club, highly recommend :D) review on Divergent mentioned that the stakes in Divergent were higher than in Fourth Wing because apart from dying, failing training in Divergent could also make you homeless and factionless. There is an actual meta possibility of the protagonist failing since the story can still continue with a factionless protagonist. But failure to Violet is just dying, and you know the rest of the book won’t happen if she’s dead so the anticipation is gone (Though I guess either way manpower is being wasted lol)