/lit/ - Literature

>>11930743
>meanwhile I am at book 5.
OMG!

>>11930758
Because of the uniformity of the genre. The good folks at whichever house publishes this crap have read it, saw how bad it is and accordingly labeled it and marketed it to a certain demographic. Everything, from the artwork, the blurb , the other authors commenting on it is designed to sell it to that demographic. I am sorry to say this but people with even a modicum of taste are not part of that demographic.
The modern fantasy has gotten so bad and uniform that actually good novels have to be crow-bared into some arbitrary category in order to even hit the shelves.