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What was your biggest fantasy book disappointment?

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Basically, title. On my side, it might be unpopular, but I was quite disappointed with the Mistborn Trilogy. The world is interesting, I like the concepts, but I could just not connect with the characters? I finished the first book and started the second but could not finish it.

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- This is blasphemy. But I respect you for taking the risk in saying this.
  
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- Have you read way of kings? Different series, better characters
  
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  I know, I might give it a try later
  
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- Try some of the other series by Sanderson, it was his first series, and not the best written. If you don't like his other work too, then maybe he just isn't for you.
  
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  Thank you for the advice!
  
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Jordan's Wheel of Time. Inside that massive stack of dead trees I think there might be a pretty decent trilogy struggling to get out, but I wasn't willing to read the rest of the stuff in order to find it. Dropped it somewhere around book four or five and never looked back.

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- It took me two years to finish the series, including a 6 months break during the slog, but I'm glad that I did. It is one of the most epic fantasy stories of all time. An absolute accomplishment.
  
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- I dropped WoT around the same spot. The story itself wasn't bad, but if I have to read about one more person straightening their skirt or tugging their braid I was going to explode.
  
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  Ditto. Same spot, same issues.
  
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I suppose it is the 3rd book in the Seeker series. The 2nd one was already not great, but the 3rd was an incomprehensible piece of trash, a waste of paper and ink. I have never read something so bad, before or after. Goodkind is crystal clear when writing out his rape fantasies, and blabbers incoherently for every other part of the book. I strongly dislike rape and torture themes, so there was nothing of value in the book for me. Years later when I read the Wheel of Time series, I discovered that Goodkind stole all of his ideas from Robert Jordan and then made them significantly worse. What a hack.

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Ed Greenwood's Elminster series. It gets so much word-of-mouth for being the basis of the Forgotten Realms but it's honestly some of the worst fantasy writing I've ever forced myself through.

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Malazan probably. So many people love it, and it looked like something I'd like, I even had a friend also reading it with me. I wanted to like it so much. After one and half books, I realized I couldn't care less about what happened to any of the characters and I didn't understand anything about the magic stuff, so I stopped reading.

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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It just did not resonate with me in February slightest and didn’t get enjoyable until the final few chapters. I can appreciate it from a literary standpoint. The prose is lovely and the tone is spot on for what she was trying to achieve, but my goodness did I feel annoyed while making my way through it.

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Wise mans fear. Jesus christ what a trainwreck.

Name of the wind has a lot of issues as well, but god damn I was hooked!

I am not even sad that the third book is probably never coming out, the second book killed all my interest.

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- I read the first book because I kept hearing how great it was supposed to be. I didn't even make it halfway through the second book, lol.
  
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- Rothfus was like "meh, I'm already rich and famous, why struggle through a third book? I'm done!" Half of the 2nd book was stolen from Wheel of Time anyways.
  
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