Fourth Wing

I made a goodreads account for the sole purpose of ranting about this book:

I have a personal vendetta against everyone thats glowing review caused me to put myself through reading this book. I went into this knowing it was more Romantasy than Fantasy and for the most part thats how I like it, but I think even considering this Romantasy is giving it way too much credit.

- Characters in this book are so underdeveloped that I dont even have the energy to dislike them. I cared about absolutely nobody in this world other than maybe Violets dragons. Violet has some mysterious illness that makes all her joints dislocate (ehlers danlos?) but only causes her problems when it works for the plotline and for some reason makes her have natural dip dye (dont even get me started on this) that makes her not like other girls. This supposedly makes her stand out and a target despite another recurring character having literal bright pink hair. Rhiannon is meant to be her closest friends and all we know about her by the end of the book is that she fucks alot?
- The dialogue is horrendously cringey. I dont expect ye olde englishe in my fantasy books but this whole thing just read like a creative writing story from a 16 year olds english class. Dont even get me started on Violet and Xaden conveniently being able to telepathically communicate.
- The romance in this was AWFUL. Enemies to lovers literally where. You cant just SAY theyre enemies and pat yourself on the back. There was no tension. No longing. No explanation as to why they liked each other. No lead up them being together. And then immediate marriage level life long devition from both parties like they had known each other since childhood. I read this FOR the romance plot and it was rushed and unfulfilling in every aspect. The only reason I gave this book 2 stars is because the second star is a thank you to the author for not using the word ‘member'.
- The world itself is not fleshed out at all and just a dumpster fire of the plots for like 5 other series mashed together. I cant begin to tell you how often during reading this my brain fully replaced scenes in the book with scenes from how to tran your dragon.

There is so much more but I am honestly just disappointed that this book is currently the face of NA Fantasy. It could have steered super violent and bloody and the deaths could have been impactful and the MC's could have found safety and calm with each other, or it could have been super gritty and had the FMC pine after and MMC that still wanted her dead. Instead its just a mish mash of divergent, how to train your dragon and 50 shades of grey and I wish I had never wasted my money buying it.