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I was rereading for the second time and look what I found!

"I was content to listen to her talk about every bud and bloom, about her plans to start another garden by the greenhouse, perhaps a vegetable garden, if she could learn enough about it over the next few months."

This is at 60% in the first book. Elain didn't even know about vegetable farming 😭. Atp people should stop blaming her for this.

Also. Her personality is described in so much detail in the first book I am actually shocked because we didn't get much of her in the later books!

"She had come alive here, and her joy was infectious. There wasn’t a servant or gardener who didn’t smile at her, and even the brusque head cook found excuses to bring her plates of cookies and tarts at various points in the day. I marveled at it, actually—that those years of poverty hadn’t stripped away that light from Elain. Perhaps buried it a bit, but she was generous, loving, and kind—a woman I found myself proud to know, to call sister."

"Elain had said she missed it, and I wondered what she saw when she looked at the cottage. If she beheld not a prison but a shelter—a shelter from a world that had possessed so little good, but she tried to find it anyway, even if it had seemed foolish and useless to me. She had looked at that cottage with hope; I had looked at it with nothing but hatred. And I knew which one of us had been stronger."

We've never had a fmc like her before, with her positive and hopeful personality, and with her struggles and powers. I am so so excited for her story!

Spoiler alert of acosf and tog series:

An excerpt from acosf:

“Certainly.” Vassa peered at her hands, fingers flexing. “I fear what may happen if he ever gets free of the lake. If he sees this world on the cusp of disaster and knows he could strike, and strike hard, and make himself its master. As he once tried to do, long ago.”

“Those are legends that predate our courts,” Eris said.

It says legends that predate the courts, and we know Erawan and his brothers tearing through worlds to find Marvel happened a long time ago as well (I assume it's before acotar courts) so what I feel Koschei is one of Erawan's brother. If it's not that (because again,bone carver says koschei is his elder brother) then I feel he's at least connected to Koschei in some way.

I am thinking of buying the paperbacks of the series but I am hearing quite very polarizing opinions on here. It's fine for me if it's slow at first two books but still it should at least have enough escalating events and a good climax tho.

I usually enjoy series like throne of glass and anything sjm, the empyrean series, cruel prince,etc...

These really build up at first and get better with each book, so that's okay if it happens but it should just get better with each book and it's preferable if the plot holes are at the minimum and if there are minimum scenes where you feel they came out of nowhere as a filler. (I read brimstone and was like 'did her editor work or not')

A spoiler from red Queen & powerless in the rant:

I had read powerless first, I didn't know about the plagiarizing thing back then but just read it because it was so hyped. Honestly, I just liked the first 100 pages and after that, I forced myself to complete it in fomo.

After that, I started Red Queen and dnfed it at 60% but I actually ENJOYED that 60%. It was a much better book, writing and plot wise both.

I knew when starting Red Queen that powerless had copied it a lot but I didn't know it was so much that it'd affect the readers who are reading the original. Because as I went on reading, I stopped because I felt like I already knew the story, I knew the rebels would attack in the ball room in Red Queen.

And this is why spreading awareness about plagiarizism matters, this is why when you say 'inspiration' or say things like 'this is a baby of both A and B and doesn't resemble its parents'—it should actually not resemble its parents because trust me, Powerless resembles so much of RQ! I don't know about hunger games as I've not read the books or watched the shows but I heard it's taken from there as well.

It matters because I actually felt betrayed, because I felt I'd have continued reading RQ and not stopped it if I hadn't read powerless, even though it was my choice to read it first I had no clue they both were so similar. Many readers would have to face this because what if they didn't go on Reddit and so many other vids where they explain that powerless is plagiarized, what if they just see the vids gushing over the powerless trilogy, buy them and read it and not like it? What if there was a chance that they'd read red Queen and would have loved it, only if they didn't read the fan fiction version of it first?

If you want more info, you can watch Meredith's yt video! She has listed all similarities and straight lines taken out by powerless of RQ and you'd get more depth there!

Okayyy everyone I am starting Alchemised and ik the question's been asked before on other subs or this one but I had a different issue related to this topic. Manacled had always been for its emotional intensity and devastation so I wanted to ask if I start on Alchemised directly, will I get the same intensity and stakes here? Will I sob and cry as much here? Is the core emotional story changed in any way in the process of removing the fan fiction elements?

Do let me know your thoughts!

I wonder if she knows much about Azriel and even the NC at this point, like does she know he tortures people 😭? Or has he kept it hidden from her to protect her from the dark sides of the fae world? He has said once that whatever is in the cauldron, Elain shouldn't be associated with it.

Honestly, however much he respects nesta and I like Azriel but this pissed me off how everyone thinks Nesta is invincible just because she has a tough exterior.

This is why I feel Lucien would be a better match for her, firstly she is HIS MATE and secondly, I don't think so he'd treat her as something fragile or delicate and hide things from her in order to 'protect' her. How would you think Lucien react to all this tho?

If a person named Eleanor W comes up to you on fiver and asks you to go through a link to verify and stuff, don't do it and I am pretty most of you won't go through it as I found this sub now but I just wanted to let everyone know of this person's identity just in case because I fell for it. I now realize it was so dumb and stuff but this was my first time using fiverr and I was like damn excited and thought fiverr protects. It should give you a beep or a warning or anything in the chatbox itself if the person tells you to go through links.

Thankfully none of my money was stolen or anything because well lol I am so glad this time I didn't have much in my account (I am a student and my parents pay for my expenses) but yea, gonna hotlist the debit card soon but please be careful is all I wanted to say.

I am writing a fantasy story with mystery as a subplot, and a little bit of romance. I don't know but the female lead has gone through a lot and whenever I am writing and even if it's different povs, it's kinda revolving around her most of the time and people are discovering the secrets kinda thing.

Thing is whenever I am writing, I remember what she went through and I kinda should because that's main backdrop across all scenes but it's really sad and making me depressed while writing and lingering feelings are there when I stop writing it. Is that normal and it happens to everyone, am I just overthinking or something?

Ps: this is my first post to this subreddit so yayy! And also, no judgement please toward this post or anyone in the comments for no reason!

I started reading it and I am 14% in. No offense to anyone who loves the book! But i feel it's too fairytalish and kiddish idk 😭. Some who loved it told me to embrace the quirks​ but idk if I can. It has an interesting storyline but i am used to political and epic fantasies.

I thought I'd give it a try because I wanted to try something different but half the time, she's thinking about Luc and she doesn't come off as clever till now which was promised as the theme I guess when I read what it's about, she instead comes off as sacrificing. So does she get more clever and use tactics to yk overpower people or it's more like she is not proactive till the end of the series?

So I want to know if I should continue it and does it get better? Will I miss out on a good story if I stop reading? Because I've read many stories that get good with when you reach the middle act so yea ✌.

Let me know what y'all think!

spoiler for the whole series of acotar and mild ones based on plot and character writing for tog series.

Okay, I love acotar series, but as I have recently read tog and it's still fresh in my mind, I kinda love both of them equally now but I feel acotar had way more plot inconsistences.

Tog did such a good job in writing a character in a consistent way. We know who Aelin is, what she does and what her motivations and where her morals lies and we ​know that about every character. We see their learning arcs, growth, and they don't change so drastically between books. What they are at their core stay the some. They don't say one thing or feel one thing and do another thing entirely.

But in acotar, I recognised this ​inconsistency in mainly Feyre and Tamlin secondly. I think that Rhys and the inner circle were always morally gray and only when Feyre got close to them and in their circle, she started liking them and even though their gray side wasn't shown much in her perspective, I think it was always there.

But for Feyre to be described as good one second and a monster another second in the ourobouros mirror is contradictory. And I felt a lot of contradictory behaviour in her character. It feels like I have no idea who she is as I have started rereading the series. ​​​​​I've come to accept that it's normal now and just started to go with the flow but even Nesta's character was really well written than Feyre's. We knew who Nesta was, what she valued and what trauma she was facing but Feyre's narrative fell flat as she always kinda blamed it on external things (as she should because yeah, her trauma is valid) but also with that, there is a level of self reflection required for a character to have nuance and depth and I didn't see that in feyre through the whole books because it was so contradictory all the time, I couldn't decide on what's her personality is and what she values.

I​ liked Nesta's book tho, even loved it but yeah, I just wanted to share it because I wanted to know your thoughts on it. ​

"Rhys had agreed that the soldiers who attacked were likely the Autumn Court soldiers who had gone missing, but how they had ended up in the Bog of Oorid … Well, that was what they intended to uncover. Rhys had tried to get into their heads, but found nothing but fog and mist."

This was in acosf, I searched for it in the 37th chapter because every sub I read, there was some or the other mention of them torturing Autumn court soldiers even though Rhys can get into their minds. Well, he tried and he couldn't see anything. I think this clears it up!

I wanna hear y'all thoughts about this so feel free to share it ⭐✨!​