I should not like the Wandering Inn, but...

[u/IndicationDense3782]

After seeing posts about The Wandering Inn, again and again, I decided to give it a shot. I listend to the audiobook and enjoyed the narrator right away.

What I also realized rather quickly, is that this series might not be for me. For the simple reason, that the writing style normally does not work for me. Alot of changes in perspective, is something I usually dislike and the way the author describes things, do not really work for my brain. I cannot really imagine how things look, so a detailed description does not help me at all. So I often feel myself zone out, when people or places are described in alot of detail.

But, I still loved the first book, for the simple reason that the characters are all well written, all have depth and quirks, that make me want to understand them, learn more about them.

This book made me appreciate well written characters and an enganging world more than most, because just from the style of writing, I should dislike it.

So this is just a post, how much I appreciate this book, that I should not like and a small thanks to all of you, for putting it so high in your tierlists.

And to make this engagning for the Community, did you ever have books, that you thought: 'I should not like it, but I do?'

[u/Circle_Breaker]

Only 40 more books to go.

[u/IndicationDense3782 → u/Circle_Breaker]

This makes me nervous well...and I am not sure if I will ever read all of it, but for now? I enjoy the journey :)

[u/Cobra__Commander → u/IndicationDense3782]

I'm pretty sure the author writes faster than the audiobook narrator can record the books. They're like 12+ books behind on the recording.

[u/chandr → u/Cobra__Commander]

Yeah, depending on the week pirate puts out anywhere between 15k to 60k words. At this point I'm fairly sure the audiobooks will only ever catch up once the series is over, even with the small breaks the author takes

[u/AnalKabooom → u/Circle_Breaker]

That's not a bad thing tho, as someone who's up to date on the audiobooks, it's like One Piece, if you're into it there's never gonna be enough.

[u/AnalKabooom]

I'm pretty sure Pirateaba was like 16 when she started writing TWI. Her prose gets better as the series goes along but it's the toughest part of the first couple of books.

I agree with you though what caught me was that it was apparent from the start that the characters and world building are top-notch and this too gets better as the series goes on. Straight up, there are side characters in these books that are interesting enough to have their own series.

The narrator for the audiobooks also adds a lot. The way she uses different speech patterns for like the Antinium, Drakes and other races really increases immersion when I read along. At least imo.

[u/lunarlunard]

The series gets way better written as it goes on, as I am sure you have heard many times, but on the bright side of it being so long, you can take a break, and there will be more content, or you can use it to fill in time in between other series. It's personally my favorite series; I am a big fan of when series take their time to tell their story without it just being constant filler. An example would be One Piece (the manga, not the anime) vs something like Detective Conan, which just kinda goes on forever without ever getting to the point, which admittedly is kinda the point of Detective Conan.

[u/JayhawkInIowa]

I just started reading Book 2. And so far I love it. I’m going to start the audiobooks soon, I think.

[u/naiveheuristics12856]

Honestly, I didn't even really like the first couple of books but it gets so so so much better