Books

For me personally it's the same as with all his series: they build up into something super interesting and then they fizz out with a compromising ending that feels like he ran out of time and had to throw something together.

Here I am on the verge of having my mind blown and thinking "finally, this is what it has all been about, now we're getting to the really good stuff!"... only to have things wrapped up abruptly in a way that's really unsatisfying.

I don't know what the hell is up with that, it's like he's planning for a whole other book and his publisher comes in and forces him to end it early or something.

After it happened three times I said that's it, he's not getting me again — it's too frustrating!

It has an interesting idea for its world and magic, and then fleshes it out with the most infuriatingly boring set of characters. The main character is bland enough to allow a reader to self-insert to a degree (this is similar to the main character in Twilight — something that people critique it for.) Then some of the supporting characters border on harmful stereotypes. Plus, I guessed the "twist" in the first trilogy very early on.

Aesthetically I want to like it, but I found it awful. I only read it because it was the #1 rated fantasy book on Goodreads at the time, and since then I haven't listened to aggregated internet reviews for anything.