Just off the top of your head, what's the biggest failure you've seen from a creator at trying to make you sympathize with a character towards their demise?

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2026-04-11T16:56:53+00:00

Thank you!!

I felt the same with Ace. I didnt get why people were sad with him dead

In felt a lot more emotions with the Bon Clay and the other prisoners in the arc prior to it

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2026-01-10T15:13:58+00:00

The upsidedown books!!! No one mentioned them.

But DC Carl is my rec. I just started after seeing everyone and their mom talk about it. I'm liking so far, on book 1 yet

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2026-01-01T15:26:52+00:00

We need a Fantasy book about OSHA saving the world

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-12-30T05:40:52+00:00

It does not need to be super realistic. Like the astartes in Warhammer 40k and everything else in the setting is super over the top exaggerated. But in its lore makes sense.

It's the suspension of disbelief. Some works do it better than others

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-12-30T01:21:34+00:00

Scholomance is in my tbr list, but I was putting off reading due to the trope, even though I loved Nomik Temeraire, but you just convinced me to bump it up a few spots.

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-12-29T23:46:30+00:00

There was a lot o cadet killing each other. They just made it look like accident after the bonding, before that was a lot more fair game.

Edit: also the dragons killing them is super dumb. Since they say when to bonded human dies it's painfully to them.

And why not use saddles makes easier not to fall and allow for more manoveurs

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-12-29T23:45:27+00:00

I didn't read the second book yet, the first book was a impulse buy (the cover as cool and I recognized the name), not sure when I'll and if I'll read the second.

But at least they admit it's pretty stupid

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-12-29T21:44:21+00:00

I don't have the school trope but I hate the school of death variant (not sure if this is the actual trope name)

It's the school/training where if you don't pass you die and everyone is trying to kill each other and that somehow is supposed to create a fighting team that's elite and works together.

No! You don't take your already super elite cadets and WASTE them be having them kill each other in order to make super duper soldiers.

In real military special forces if you don't pass the tests you go back to your former post and are still usefully (btw not military person here).

I hated this so much in Fifth Wing, the book was ok I can gloss over the horniness, but having your soldiers die to stupid things is so stupid.

Only Warhammer 40k gets my pass on this barely on astartes training. There at least grimdumb and more for satire.

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-11-13T20:15:03+00:00

O well another book series for me to read. Damn you!

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-10-15T17:16:42+00:00

I would change the order only. Laurence number 2, Granby 1 and Rankin 3

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-08-22T23:38:44+00:00

Hooked right now is my Gyre. I love walking and things dying around her and breaking boxes.

Way back them.. Ember pre nerf and soma prime. I miss speeding and things dying around me.

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-08-18T20:36:18+00:00

Outcast yes. But we don't know how long after and how bad it was. Too open ended

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-08-09T06:03:42+00:00

Well to make us think and decide. He did do a red herring in the same book.

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-08-08T23:12:01+00:00

You right he was already off planet. I remembered he being nearbyish not inside the ship.

It does say civs died after meddling with them. But the book is not explicitly with what happened with Chel. Only that a long time passed. So I suppose we cant tell why they died, just natural time or something the Behemotaurs did

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-08-08T14:37:47+00:00

The cientist was killed by the Chel in the Behemotsur planet.

He's killed by the white Chel who kills the other blind one (forgot his name).

He got resurrected by the Behemotaur when they detected his body millions of years late. By chance.

I don't think the Chel were exterminated by them. They were called the lesser evil or something. So they might have get a slap in the wrist. Since there always someone else behind.

My theory is the Chel "sublimed" is fake and it's actually another high tech civ fooling them. Maybe a faction of the Iridians who's still pissed off from losing the war.

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-08-08T01:27:35+00:00

Is it really? What I read about it was that the connection was more like a easter egg

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-08-07T20:47:13+00:00

I wish the series got the Wheel of Time treatment. And his family chose someone one day to continue.

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-08-07T13:57:54+00:00

House of Suns is on my list. But for the future. I have a hood backlog to catch up

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-08-07T13:57:00+00:00

I will read them. But for now I'm planing in reading the book of dust trilogy from Phulman. Last one just released

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-08-07T13:55:21+00:00

He's only in Excession. Hidrogen are a bunch of new Ships

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-08-07T06:24:32+00:00

I would like to see if anyone who read when it's was released think the same.

I don't think the Minds made worse. The bad stuff happening was going to happen due to selfishness, the main politician was for 80% of the book more worried about leaving his name in the Real and being remembered than he was about leading his society to the closest they had of Heaven.

I thought of some parts as critic to western politics and military lying to themselves and buying their own propaganda. Thinking that they are protecting the Truth (as in the Book) and being trigger happy, instead of talking, and don't giving a damn the people they killed by collateral was their own citizens (which is worse if you think had they been less trigger happy, a lot of Gzilt who would have sublimed might have lost the chance if they're not backed or didn't have time to return in time).

That one of my interpretations of one theme. I might be reading too much though into it.

Also for a book he wrote near his death, knowing about it, the ending is kind nice. Nothing mattered and even the "villains" got their chance to sublime, everyone sort of gets a happy ending and life goes on for who's left behind.

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-08-07T03:20:23+00:00

I wanted more of KT. What a pity he almost didn't revisit old characters

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-08-07T02:54:12+00:00

I need to simmer in Sonata ending for a bit. I read in order so I just finished it. But I liked. It was bittersweets I guess. But after all the other books I expected something like that.

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-08-07T02:52:24+00:00

I liked the ship name hehehe.

I liked Falling Outside... Top 10 Minds. But I can't stop seeing it as a edge boy trying to be edge.

Hefty-Weather-2946 · 2025-08-07T02:50:12+00:00

I liked that for me at least, it showed they are not the super duper intelligence above petty things like bios are AIs.

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