/lit/ - Literature

>>6962170
I'm 150-200 pages in and so far it's been pretty disappointing, a poorly written man-child's fantasy, and I'm not sure I want to finish it after reading what this guy (>>6973607
) said about sequels. Does it ever get better?

Plot-wise, the first half is literally AGOT set in fake-England. They fight the Wild and the first scene is actually some character observing mangled corpses. There's a fucking Wall full of mysterious dark forces. The North or whatever is pretty fucked up. There's a company of mercenaries, ex-rapists and killers, that come there to help defeat some dragons. Yay, dragon-fighting... It couldn't have been more mediocre (but they were fighting a wyvern so who knows).

Regarding the multiple PoVs, which are thrown around for who-knows-what reasons, there is a fucking BEAR PoV. Literally, it's a momma bear very furious and sad because humans killed her cub.

The prose is shitty with some very questionable word choices, like how a cape "depends" from the lower rim of a helmet. It feels unevenly modern at times (too much 'fucking' and formulas taken from action movies). It tries to be bad-ass or smart, but it fails most of the time.
>(...)The captain could read him like a book(...)
>(...) Its wave of terror was a palpable thing, expanding like a soap bubble around it (...)
EXPANDING LIKE A SOAP BUBBLE. Wow, the poetry.

The bits about armor and sword fighting techniques are kinda excessive, YA-tier literature that depends on describing quillons and sabatons and HEMA tactics is meh.

There's some dialogues that sound pretty damn stupid, esp. the witty ye olde refined English between the upper classes. Humor-wise it's bleh, Abercrombie tier, probably less funny. And this line is in the fucking book:
>All shades of grey, he thought to himself, and smiled as he climbed the steps to the massive monastery door

The only redeeming bits were the stuff about religion, which could be promising. At least it's kinda original.