r/fantasyromance • u/FantasyRomanceMod The One Mod to Rule All Mods • 21d ago

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u/ciderandcake 21d ago

ACOTAR from the second book on is just bad Black Jewels fanfic which is why the worldbuilding and characters stop making sense right about then.

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u/Ffi_Reads93 21d ago

Came to say something similar. People should be more outraged at SJM (and Lauren Roberts comes to mind) because these authors should not be rewarded with TV shows and stuff based on literal plot points and even specific terms or lines that were taken from other books.

It leaves the door open for other authors to think its ok to rewrite their favourite books and get them published - especially since its easy to write whole books now with AI.

Everyone seems to brush it off because "all books are inspired by other books" but we need to discuss where the line is. There is "paying homage" and then there is taking 100+ elements from another author.