/lit/ - Literature

>>21692350
>It's alright, I read the sequel and it was the biggest piece of shit known to god. Just taking a city based Rogue and then now he's a sailor.
Bro, the second book at least holds some of the quality that the first had. The third one is full blown circus that WILL make your experience retroactively bad by changing some of the past events.


You know how the protagonist is supposed to be an orphan that doesn't remember much of his early childhood and lost his parents to a plague that ravaged the city when he was few years old?

You are not going to fucking believe what the author pulled off: The protagonist is actually a body snatcher. An extremely powerful wizard that lost his wife and was driven insane. Attempting to bring his dead wife back with some dark magic he unleashed a plague and transfered his conciousness into a child, losing memory in the process. Oh, and the woman the protagonist loves? She's a redhead, with similar appearance to the wizard's dead wife. That's literally why he loves her.

I understand that cheating on his wife fucked up the author, but pulling shit like this? It's unbelievable how one can shit all over his legacy.
DO NOT READ PAST SECOND BOOK. You can try the second if you reaaaaaly need to, but do not EVER touch the third.

>>20992869
Paranoid Mage is the story that Blackpilled me on readers. Like, I know webnovels by and large aren't amazing, but the stories that get popular most of the time has at least few elements going for them.

But Paranoid Mage? It's popular only because it's a cheap power fantasy of a guy almost effortlessly dunking on an 'authority' while at the same by practicing on his own in the middle of nowhere becoming better at magic than literal centuries old Archmages. But we have OP protagonist who fights the power, so of course it is popular.

The same with He Who Fights With Monsters. The protagonist is an edgy Mary Sue and basically every person that reads webnovels or just litrpg/progression-fantasy genres is to some degree critical of it, yet the series is #1 selling at Amazon. Because people love reading an edgy OP protagonists, even if it's dumb.

HWFWM is webnovel Stormlight Archive, some good writing but overall a bad story, yet it's extremely popular despite people shiting on it everywhere.

God, this is so fucking stupid. No wonder so many writers just grift and write cheap trashy litrpg stories, that's what people want, they will even call you a master writer for it.