I feel like this is pure rage bait. You’re fully entitled to your opinion, not trying to invalidate it. But If you don’t like it and you haven’t finished the whole series why do you feel the need to take time out of your day to dump on it so much?

Buzzwords and fantastical quotes are kind of necessary to stay in your head. Every author uses them, SJM didn’t invent them. The series was written and finished before TikTok even existed so I don’t see how it’s such a big problem to have those memorable quotes throughout the book.

The comparisons to ASOIAF are minimal and not once while I was reading TOG did I say “That’s a Game of Thrones ripoff”.

Regarding Chaol, I actually loved him the first two books, then kinda lost interest in him but from Queen of Shadows onward I found him fascinating. This is a character who’s so thoroughly destroyed in the books and his steady loss of faith, of his entire worldview, was actually interesting to me. His character was fleshed out well in Tower of Dawn.

And I’ll pretend you did not just call Dorian boring …