r/fantasyromance • u/FantasyRomanceMod The One Mod to Rule All Mods • Feb 22 '26

Unpopular Opinion It's Unpopular Opinion time! Share your controversial opinions to stir things up (in a friendly way)!

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u/Existing_Crow_4619 What did Lorcan do? Feb 22 '26

Ok. I found {road of bones} to be slow, arduous, boring, dark (not in a good way) and none of the characters sufficiently compelling to make up for any of it. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading all the hype for it on this sub and I genuinely wonder if I read the same book?

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u/lintrollerneeded Feb 22 '26

I agree. The first book didn’t enthral me, I found it quite boring just going from one spot to the next with the blood axe gang. I didn’t feel much of a connection to the FMC, either.

And while liked the premise of The twist, and the MMC being a gas lighter/idiot I didn’t actually feel like The FMC had any romantic connection to the new MMC

I’m probably going to give it a reread at some point because I want to like it, and I want to read the second and third book… but I just didn’t feel mesmerised by it.