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    my understanding is that of her two series the balance of that one is like 80/20 fantasy to 'romance', while the other series is much more 'romance' centric

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zetanio View Post
    this is good enough for me, i appreciate the insight.
    she's a bad writer mechanically but so is Sanderosn eh, love is blind

    once i read the Twilight series for a girlfriend, you're a good egg Zet

    also i'm also on the third Justice of Kings bookss let's compare notes when finished

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    i read all of the twilight books in college to get closer to a girl who treated me like a gay bff, smh

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    The real question based on my understanding of her other series is...how much dragon smut is there?

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    There are dragons in "Throne of Glass", but no dragon smut. All the romantic story lines are between humans and or faes if that's your jam. I should maybe also clarify there isn't a lot of romance in the series (I would even say it's more like 85/15 fantasy to romance), but I felt like there was only 1 genuine adult relationship in the whole series. The rest all felt like they based on well tread tropes and/or written by a prepubescent author and just not that interesting.

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    the impression I got (someone was talking about her other series and I googled it) is that Throne is more akin to Hunger Games, the Court of Whatever is more like Twilight. Again, idk how accurate that is, just the sense I got from briefly looking into it

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    I appreciate the answers but I don't plan to read either series. I was just looking for an excuse to write dragon smut in a post.

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    fair

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    Quote Originally Posted by Qalbert View Post
    the impression I got (someone was talking about her other series and I googled it) is that Throne is more akin to Hunger Games, the Court of Whatever is more like Twilight. Again, idk how accurate that is, just the sense I got from briefly looking into it
    Really only the first book in that series is like Hunger Games. The rest is all pretty standard high fantasy, but pretty firmly in the YA category. I'm also in the "I read these books for my wife" camp, and I enjoyed the Throne of Glass series. It's not the best series you're ever going to read, but still an enjoyable read.

    That being said I did it enjoy it much more than her ACOTAR series, which is definitely more smutty romance/fantasy which is fine, but it just gets pretty repetitive. I couldn't get into her third series at all, as it's more modern fantasy and less high fantasy which just isn't my vibe.

    I will say that the "Kings Dark Tidings" series that Gustave mentioned is one of my go to series. Again not the best thing you're ever going to read, but I really enjoy it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bweigelt View Post
    I also just finished Justice of kings, I liked it but at the same time I'm not sure I'm gonna jump into the sequels. I'm not quite sure what it was as when I think of the details I really like them, but for some reason the entire package doesn't grab me like it should.
    I was going to start Instrument of Omens since I enjoy Nick Podehl but with all the talk of Justice of Kings I might give him a break and go with that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jelkwaz View Post
    Really only the first book in that series is like Hunger Games.
    I feel like a LOT of YA books did this as a gimmick to grab readers that were used to Hunger Games. Seems to have been successful with this series, Red Rising and a few others.

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    Hunger Games remains the best YA fiction of that era where it was dominant, can't blame em

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    Throne of Glass is pretty awful. I love my wife so I soldier on. Two done so far, a bunch to go.

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    FFS just spent $325. This man keeping me poor.

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    I could have bought an 11 pull and have 1000 gems left over, but all I got was this silly title.

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    Also FFS another secret project?

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    I could have bought an 11 pull and have 1000 gems left over, but all I got was this silly title.

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    Brando Sando swinging his weight around against Amazon. Authors are going to get better rates later this year on Audible sales/credit redemptions. Not exactly what he wanted but it's a vast improvement over the high end 40% (Audible exclusive, authors with large readership) to 25% author cut per audiobook/credit redeemed.

    https://www.brandonsanderson.com/regarding-audible/


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