u/SensitiveEl

I’m curious - especially for those who’ve listened to the cast audiobooks. In the HBO series do you want the pronunciation to be Voldemort or Voldemor(t)

And what direction do you think the directors will choose?

When i first listened to the audiobooks I hated hearing it with the silent t. But after getting used to it and hearing that’s how it’s supposed to be pronounced - I warmed to it. But I also think it would be a really big change to make for the show and many wouldn’t like it.

Would love your thoughts?

The past 6 months I’ve had so many experiences of loving book one, and then book two is a huge disappointment.

I don’t mean it just not being as good as, but being really quite bad. And it’s incredibly disappointing because I get all hyped, get the SE and then…it feels ruined.

I can’t help but wonder that because romantisy is huge now and fantasy itself has had a resurgence, that publishers are churning out books knowing we will automatically buy the fancy second SE’s so what does it matter if the story, editing, spelling and grammar are subpar because it’s already bought?

Maybe it’s just a bad luck reading spell but I’d love others thoughts on this…

Hello

I’ve just finished light wielder and it was a slog!! Terrible book - such a shame as I like metal slinger a lot. But this book has taken me three whole weeks to read and I NEED my next read to be captivating or I’ll go into a full slump.

I don’t mind a standalone or a series

My top fave books of the past year are the knight and the moth, road of bones series and the ballad of falling dragons.

I love strong world building. I’m a bit tired of enemies to lovers tropes unless it’s a particularly good one.

I don’t really read Romantasy for the spice so I don’t care about spice rating but I do love me some yearning and slow build romance. I care more about the character plot and world building than the romance. I often guess twists and reveals so I’m interested in books where people really didn’t see the twist coming.

I’m interested in books that are popular so I’ve got spaces to discuss them rather than books no ones heard of.

I’ve not asked for book rec on here before so thanks so much in advance for your help!!

I’m loving the live action audiobooks I really am and most of the characters are great.

I’ve just finished book five and found it was grating on me by the end and I just want a heads up as to if it continues. In book five Harry is of course very distressed and angry a lot of time, that’s fine, but the actor plays Harry as very whiny and angry. Even when he is supposed to be fraught with grief and outrage at the end he just sounds like he’s being mardy. The actor seemed to only know one way to play “angry”, which made it just constantly whine whine whine 🤣

I’ve read the books so so many times and I’ve never disliked Harry, but for the first time I thought gosh he’s a bit insufferable. Hermonie was whiny too.

Anyway the reason I care to know is because it kept taking me out of the story. So I just want to know if this continues or gets better?

Thanks!