I read a book about h*rny dragons and hated it

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  • @libraryofaviking
    @libraryofaviking  11 місяців тому +18

    Should I read any other romantasies? 😅
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    • @starzenno
      @starzenno 11 місяців тому +2

      The Throne of Glass series will definitely be a roller coaster 😏

    • @ghastlymagician3336
      @ghastlymagician3336 11 місяців тому

      Honestly, I would say the Crescent City books by Sarah J Mass are worth a shot. There are adult themes and things going on in the books, as she is well known for. But it is actually handled well, fits into the plot, and doesn't overstay its welcome so far. The story is interesting, and it has some downright action-packed and brutal moments in it that are awesome. However, take all this with a grain of salt. As I learned with this author, she can turn everything on its head and not in a good way, and there are only 2 of the five book series out at the moment.

    • @Deni-mt9bj
      @Deni-mt9bj 11 місяців тому +1

      @@ghastlymagician3336I really liked the fist one but the second book in CC was just plain adult cringe content.

    • @momo_genX
      @momo_genX 11 місяців тому +1

      Only if you want to 🤮

    • @ghastlymagician3336
      @ghastlymagician3336 11 місяців тому

      @Deni-mt9bj oh for sure there was that in the book, I just thought considering it was used in relation to the plot device for the book, and not just thrown in there for fillers sake, like a lot of those style of books tend to do, it would be a better option then some others.

  • @searchanddiscover
    @searchanddiscover 11 місяців тому +319

    This is why I think fantasy romance needs to be marketed in the romance section as it is its own distinct thing from adult fantasy.

    • @MargueriteKrux2
      @MargueriteKrux2 11 місяців тому +29

      Totally agree with you!
      Also it's highly annoying when there's so many romantasy books between the actual fantasy and you more or less have to look inside the book to see if it's free of spice.
      Nothing against spice or romance, but I want real fantasy where said topics are basically bystanders to the story, but not the center of it

    • @gizzmowalliss
      @gizzmowalliss 11 місяців тому +12

      They should just make a new sections for romance fantasy.

    • @searchanddiscover
      @searchanddiscover 11 місяців тому +15

      ​@@sk4348 i actually prefer fantasy romance myself, (tho not interested in any of the popular series) but hate that it is mixed with with regular fantasy because they are so night and day. the bookstores aren't even consistent about it, like stuff like fourth wing and acotar is in fantasy while similar stuff such as plated prisoner and fbaa are in romance. which means if the reader wants similar stories you have to look in both sections and its really hard trying to navigate the fantasy section because its not romance. i think it would be good for both readers to separate the two so readers get what they want more easily.

    • @searchanddiscover
      @searchanddiscover 11 місяців тому +4

      Literary would be shelved in general fiction here. But romance would basically include smut, erotica and regular romance stuff you see in regency and contemporary. There is also paranormal but fantasy romance has started to replace that. It just needs to be better understood bc adult fantasy should be for books that focus on fantasy elements first. General rule of thumb is if you can remove the romance and still have a story then it’s not romance. If the story falls apart it’s romance first most.

    • @Merian8
      @Merian8 10 місяців тому

      But it is still adult fantasy, it simply has romance. This book isn’t focused on the romance, so it wouldn’t make sense to distinguish it as romance fantasy. Yes, I’ve read it.

  • @brendhacaldas4396
    @brendhacaldas4396 11 місяців тому +135

    The thing the botters me the most about those "romantasy" books is that they read like YA, in both the writing and the more superficial exploration of themes, and at the same time posess A LOT of gore and sexual content. It causes confusion, since it feels like the writters dont really know for whom they writting for, teens or adults.
    I loved your video tho 😂 your reaction was so funny

    • @nishthagupta1357
      @nishthagupta1357 11 місяців тому +4

      Ig both😂

    • @vcarr938
      @vcarr938 11 місяців тому +12

      I also feel like many times the characters come across as very young/teenager-ish so when they are...partaking (lmao) it just feels wrong to be reading.

    • @Nassaldromus
      @Nassaldromus 10 місяців тому +5

      @@vcarr938 true. They read like she's 14 and he's 17

    • @NijiKonohana
      @NijiKonohana 7 місяців тому +7

      I think when you say "it reads like YA", you are probably referring to the fact that it has... subpar writing. Which is often the case for 90% of the books published in the YA genre. However, the issue comes when these subpar writers are also horny adults who are eager to write smut and 'adult' themes. So they go ahead and write these books, but because their writing capabilities are nowhere near actual literary authors, they just shoehorn it into the YA section where they know it will be accepted. Hence, there's no real audience they are writing it for. It's just their own smut fantasies vomited out on a page.
      Now, I'm not saying that ALL YA books are subpar. It is just that in the last few decades the genre has become so inundated with mediocrity that people don't even question it anymore.

    • @claudiabailey5302
      @claudiabailey5302 3 місяці тому +1

      There is a warning in the book telling you what it contains and the front cover isn’t subtle so the publisher or author cant be blamed on this one. Also for me this not proper fantasy it’s romantasy where fantasy is in the background and is just used for romance purposes which is why there is no major world building.

  • @jesskate6244
    @jesskate6244 11 місяців тому +177

    I feel like the new adult fantasy (what this is marketed as on GRs) is fast becoming by word for YA level plot but smutty.

    • @adoniscreed4031
      @adoniscreed4031 11 місяців тому +2

      Yeah this is either gonna split into its separate category of Adult Fantasy or we're gonna find a whole new age range between YA and Adult 😂 Youngish Adult 😂 jk jk

    • @Nassaldromus
      @Nassaldromus 10 місяців тому +13

      That's how it reads. High schoolers pretending to be 20 so they can go around adulting.

    • @franciscocarranza4260
      @franciscocarranza4260 10 місяців тому +1

      The problem is the prespective and the writing. It's a lot of words.

    • @rosssims7224
      @rosssims7224 10 місяців тому +3

      That’s accurate. I want my fantasy high and my smut separate 😂

    • @GummyDinosaursify
      @GummyDinosaursify 7 місяців тому

      Wasn't new adult _always_ just YA but smutty?

  • @k.enterante
    @k.enterante 11 місяців тому +25

    “Just got back from Church-time to finish Fourth Wing.”💀

  • @connerhemphill4249
    @connerhemphill4249 6 місяців тому +15

    …so my friend group we all decided to read it. 3 guys and one gal. The whole “I’ want to climb him like a tree” that just got us all.

  • @lifebooksandeverything
    @lifebooksandeverything 11 місяців тому +42

    You and Reagan both hating this book reminded me once again why you're my favourite BookTubers.
    Thank you for your sacrifice 🫡

  • @schoolbeginsaftercoffee4759
    @schoolbeginsaftercoffee4759 11 місяців тому +79

    Not Christian, but I also do not enjoy smut in my books. Thanks for the heads up, this would most definitely not be for me.

    • @MandiMoons
      @MandiMoons 10 місяців тому +6

      SAME! it takes me out of the story honestly. in the ACOTAR series everyone is obsessed with chapter 55 yet my favorite one was 54 because it actually brought the depth of the story deeper.

    • @franciscocarranza4260
      @franciscocarranza4260 10 місяців тому +4

      Out of curiousity, what is considered smut? There's a big difference between sex for sex sake and sex for a reason. Are novelists supposed avoid sex in novels? I mean there are a majority of writers out there writing terrible sex scenes and a majority of such sex scenes are hetero (so that's a whole other conversation).

  • @OrbemOrder
    @OrbemOrder 11 місяців тому +10

    Hey Jóhan! Thank you so much for letting me sponsor one of your videos. Always loved your content so this is a real treat. I'm quite the dragon fan myself, but this made me think of the Eragon sort of mind meld, so imagining that in an explicit scenario did give me the chills for a second.

  • @lisapt6702
    @lisapt6702 11 місяців тому +23

    Anne McCaffrey’s “Dragonriders of Pern” had the same type of urge-sharing bond between humans and dragons. So it has been done before. I agree, it just isn’t for me either

  • @alexandersantana381
    @alexandersantana381 11 місяців тому +24

    You said you don’t read a lot of YA but you should totally read Aurelian cycle by Rosaria Munda. The dragons have are good and the characters are also good. The politics it talks about are amazing. Political fantasy with dragons.

    • @MTCesquire
      @MTCesquire 10 місяців тому +4

      See, THIS is more of what I was expecting. When I hear dragons, I think GoT, and one of the best aspects of GoT were the politics of it, the alliances, the strategy, etc. Instead we get a Danielle Steel novel with magic and dragons. Disappointed isn't the word.

  • @jannetier
    @jannetier 11 місяців тому +11

    I think what makes the whole ‚feeling hrny bc her dragon is‘ situation even worse is that her relationship to her dragon feels kinda like a father daughter relationship doesnt it?😅 which makes xaden her step brother in some way….

  • @jttavares
    @jttavares 11 місяців тому +5

    I was curious over the hype but not anymore. Thank you for sacrificing for the rest of us 😅

  • @mattamant915
    @mattamant915 11 місяців тому +4

    I'm definitely loving the vlog format

    • @libraryofaviking
      @libraryofaviking  11 місяців тому +2

      Thank you!

    • @mattamant915
      @mattamant915 11 місяців тому

      @@libraryofaviking you're welcome. As for the content of this book, I'll leave that to my wife to read 😂🤣

  • @aliciasorenson3807
    @aliciasorenson3807 11 місяців тому +10

    Now that you got that out of the way The Aurelian Cycle is MUCH better. Dragon riding, excellent politics and digging into moral questions, excellent pacing and plot, intriguing characters, and just a little angst. I highly recommend it. Fireborne is the first book!

    • @libraryofaviking
      @libraryofaviking  11 місяців тому +3

      Oh I have heard great things about that one! Thanks for the recommendation!

    • @Aldarion65
      @Aldarion65 11 місяців тому +1

      thank you for commenting this because I was looking for a book series that had the dragons and riding in it without the awkward sex scenes in it, I enjoyed Fourth Wing if it wasnt for the sexual parts, I thought the story itself was quite good

  • @Thxlbx
    @Thxlbx 11 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for taking one for the team! With my TBR as long as it is and so many great books on it, this is an easy one to avoid.

    • @rosssims7224
      @rosssims7224 10 місяців тому

      It’s hard cause I want to give in to the hype cause it’s shiny and new but I agree, all the booktubers I admire say it’s trash so I should prolly pass

  • @brightwatcher3757
    @brightwatcher3757 11 місяців тому +41

    I’m cackling while listening to this. I happen to adore angsty teenage romance sprinkled amongst my grimdark. While kind of low key mocking myself for reading it.🙈
    I haven’t had a chance to read Fourth Wing yet, but there is an uncomfortably large chance I will actually like it. But it will not be one of the books I take along to church.😅

    • @libraryofaviking
      @libraryofaviking  11 місяців тому +6

      Haha glad you are enjoying my pain 😆 I hope you will enjoy it if you pick it up!

  • @ankur-chauhan
    @ankur-chauhan 6 місяців тому

    Love this video. Was laughing so hard. I was waiting for you to reach the adult part. Thanks for the good time :D

  • @MrChria5k
    @MrChria5k 11 місяців тому +1

    This is definitely one of your funniest contents🤣
    Please keep doing this kind of video

  • @SenneW
    @SenneW 11 місяців тому +5

    Oh man, I was waiting for this review. This is awesome :)
    However, I do find it strange to have a sponsor for a book you haven't read, in a review for another book?

  • @ghastlymagician3336
    @ghastlymagician3336 11 місяців тому +7

    You are a trooper, sir, and if I could, I would buy you that beer myself, lol. But you sound like me after I read the A Court of Thorns and Roses series, because a dear friend of mine asked me to. Started off well enough, but by the end, I was questioning the meaning of life 😅.

    • @Nassaldromus
      @Nassaldromus 10 місяців тому +1

      That series... I didn't get past the first book. I think this one could be much better, but way out of line with the sexual contents.

  • @kerstinharold5420
    @kerstinharold5420 11 місяців тому +20

    Congratulations that you made it to the end 😂. I dnf'ed it half way through...i simply couldn't go on 😂. In the beginning I found it was ok and I was interested which way it will go to...well, I'll never know 😆

  • @EstoNoEsUnSpoiler
    @EstoNoEsUnSpoiler 11 місяців тому +6

    Yep, my experience was similar. I ended up thinking it was far ‘less bad’ than I thought

  • @_mooshrooom
    @_mooshrooom 11 місяців тому +2

    Me too i totally agreed with it. The way it has been hyped up the way it has such positive reviews. I was caught in this read the most popular to end up being disappointed.😅

  • @Talking_Story
    @Talking_Story 11 місяців тому +10

    This was hilarious. Nice job.

  • @darkarya89
    @darkarya89 11 місяців тому +2

    Something like that happend in Eragon too, Eragon was thinking in romantic way about Arya, and Saphira felt that too.

  • @Kenough_in_Wonderland
    @Kenough_in_Wonderland 11 місяців тому

    ohh yes, I was waiting for this one hahah

  • @carlabutler5286
    @carlabutler5286 11 місяців тому +1

    Thanks for the review and saving me time, money. I hate when they throw smut in! It really isn’t necessary.

  • @henriksorensen82
    @henriksorensen82 11 місяців тому +1

    I like the vlog theme, but in the future I think you should stick to books that are on your TBR

  • @kimmycupreacts
    @kimmycupreacts 11 місяців тому +1

    LOL your wife sounds hilarious. Great video. I was debating picking this one up or not.

  • @fatimagarcia9606
    @fatimagarcia9606 10 місяців тому +6

    Cuando leo autoras nuevas, no suelo buscar que han publicado previamente, pero en este caso por alguna razon lo busqué y me quedé un poco sorprendida porque todos sus libros anteriores se veian muy lejos de la fantasía y mas de "relaciones tormentosas" y pues al terminar de leerlo me di cuenta de una frase: uno nunca puede negar sus raíces 😂😅

  • @metalcandycanechild
    @metalcandycanechild 11 місяців тому +1

    😂😂🤣🤣 I love that you mostly share positive content, but these rant reviews are priceless 😂😂😂

  • @carissawills7377
    @carissawills7377 9 місяців тому +6

    The bond isn’t that she’s horny because her dragon is horny-the bond in the beginning makes it hard to differentiate her feelings from her dragons. This emotional leakage, you could call it, is important-because the narrator tells us that dragon bonds become stronger each time a dragon bonds. The theory is also that Violet and Xaden’s dragons being bonded leads to the likelihood that they are fated mates as well.
    The plot is actually super interesting. The potential directions the plot can go are what make this book what it is.
    Romantasy isn’t for everyone. 😂

    • @938oooo
      @938oooo 7 місяців тому +3

      The plot is interesting? For me it was hunger Games plus dragons

    • @javierlopez9789
      @javierlopez9789 7 місяців тому +1

      Ugh not the "mate" thing as if it wasnt gross enough in acotar.

    • @carissawills7377
      @carissawills7377 6 місяців тому

      @@javierlopez9789 spoken like someone who’s never had a deep connection with another human lol.

    • @javierlopez9789
      @javierlopez9789 2 місяці тому

      ​@@carissawills7377 i don't even want to know what kind of relationships you have with humans in general if you associate it with the term "mate".

    • @carissawills7377
      @carissawills7377 2 місяці тому

      @@javierlopez9789 …it’s literally the term from the book, bro 😂😂😂

  • @maria5988
    @maria5988 2 місяці тому +1

    I think this was a pretty fair review. I liked the setting and the pacing and the representation of EDS and having a character who is deaf. But if you don't like enemies to lovers or explicit scenes, then for sure it's probably not the book for you, which is perfectly valid.

    • @javierlopez9789
      @javierlopez9789 2 місяці тому

      Yeah i really hate the whole enemies to lovers thing, mostly because of how unrealistic it is, it's like a 13 year old romanticizing the way two people simply don't like each other, i just can't take it seriously (especially when they make grown people act like horny teenagers), also according to most authors an "enemy" is just a mean person, like sure lol. I was gonna read the book but luckily my cousin warned me about it's actual "plot" if we can call it that.

  • @blueeyestyrantdragon
    @blueeyestyrantdragon 11 місяців тому +1

    Nice video! How about trying the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.

  • @virahetman6867
    @virahetman6867 11 місяців тому +6

    That was the point of scene where her dragon didn’t shield her from his feelings, and then both main characters questioned their feelings because thought it was because their dragons felt this way. But they learned to shield, to separate their own emotions (at least Vi did, Xaden already knew how to do it but he was in denial of his feelings 🤷‍♀️😂)
    IDK, it worked for me 😁
    I was facepalming and laughed, but I loved the rest of the story so all these romantic stuff didn’t destroy the book for me 😁

    • @libraryofaviking
      @libraryofaviking  11 місяців тому +2

      Yeah that's a valid point! I am really glad you enjoyed the book;

  • @anetherealpursuit
    @anetherealpursuit 11 місяців тому +1

    I think your conclusions are totally fair! I enjoyed Fourth Wing but I liked the first half a lot better for the same reasons as you. I'm more of an Epic Fantasy reader than a Romance Fantasy reader myself. I'd love to hear what your wife thinks of it XD

  • @jdmoncada8205
    @jdmoncada8205 7 місяців тому +4

    There is precedent in fantasy for doing something like this. I'm not telling you that you should like it, only that others have done this. I'm mainly thinking of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of PERN series does this, too.

    • @patforden-kc6xn
      @patforden-kc6xn 5 місяців тому

      I agree. And if you were shocked at horny dragons, best to avoid reading about when the Queen rises to mate, chased by several male dragons and the actual consumation not necessarily consensual and definitely not gentle. I don't understand the use of h*rny or s*x to describe horny and sex. Wtaf???

  • @cjdflkj
    @cjdflkj 11 місяців тому +4

    Horses are majestic, unless you watch them daily farting and trying to mate. Animals mating is gross. No dragon lust, please.

  • @esmayrosalyne
    @esmayrosalyne 11 місяців тому +10

    Nothing better to follow up a lovely Sunday morning Church visit than with Fourth Wing 🤣🤣
    I definitely enjoyed this a lot more than you did, but purely on a 'this is escapist brain candy' kinda level, hahah. Nice experiment, I loved the vlog style! 🤩

    • @libraryofaviking
      @libraryofaviking  11 місяців тому +3

      Haha definitely a big contrast 😂
      I am glad you enjoyed it!

  • @gp873
    @gp873 5 місяців тому +2

    Fourth wing was terrible. I just finished it and it started off good but then once it got into the sex stuff my god it was AWFUL. The best parts of it(dragons and magic) are about 5% of the entire novel

  • @starzenno
    @starzenno 11 місяців тому +6

    Hey man!
    How about a Dragon fantasy Top 10 list and/or Tier list?

  • @marocat4749
    @marocat4749 8 місяців тому +1

    You read the dragonriders of perm, a scifi dragon staple?! :P

  • @kels4650md
    @kels4650md 5 місяців тому

    This is the best fourth wing review I’ve seen haha

  • @adoniscreed4031
    @adoniscreed4031 11 місяців тому +1

    I wasn't following booktube for a while so when I found this video I wondered why you picked this book....Jesus Christ this book is EVERYWHERE 😂

  • @NevsBookChannel
    @NevsBookChannel 11 місяців тому +16

    This was hilarious! Very happy to see you wearing your Christianity on your sleeve. Ybic

  • @spilchsaysstuff1427
    @spilchsaysstuff1427 11 місяців тому

    This is weird. I was shopping in Waterstones just this morning and three people had this in there posession around one of the tables and they seemed extremely excited.

  • @Cold_Zero_The_Wise
    @Cold_Zero_The_Wise 11 місяців тому +4

    I would like to recommend a 3 book trilogy from Rebecca schefaer. Not Even Bones, Only Ashes Remain, When Villains Rise.

    • @libraryofaviking
      @libraryofaviking  11 місяців тому +1

      Thank you for the recommendation!

    • @ShammyKat
      @ShammyKat 11 місяців тому +1

      LOVE these books. I do admit, the first book to me is a little rough, and I personally felt like it needed more work before publishing. But by the second book her quality in writing improved 10 fold!

  • @crazyforbooksandcoffee
    @crazyforbooksandcoffee 11 місяців тому

    I love this 😂😂 brilliant I was going to say now your wife needs to read it too 😂😂

  • @jennamartinich4415
    @jennamartinich4415 11 місяців тому +1

    I’m glad you read it so I don’t have to 😂. Your suffering was not in vain!

  • @damienfrancis90
    @damienfrancis90 11 місяців тому

    I love this review! I mean I'm sorry that it made you uncomfortable but your honesty is refreshing 🙂
    However well done to finishing it. Probs not for me tbh so I thank you sir for sacrificing your time to read it so I don't have to 😁

  • @DragonLandlord
    @DragonLandlord 10 місяців тому +1

    It sounds like an attempt to modernize the Dragonriders of Pern.

  • @southernbella551
    @southernbella551 11 місяців тому

    What did you think about Hunger Games?

  • @franciscocarranza4260
    @franciscocarranza4260 10 місяців тому +1

    This is HILARIOUS as to how kind of innocent this is. But curious...are we to be okay with violence of men and war and not sex and sexuality?

  • @sumanpani
    @sumanpani 11 місяців тому +6

    I don't know why but I nope out when a book is marketed as smut

  • @lizednaboncarrasquillo4136
    @lizednaboncarrasquillo4136 4 місяці тому

    That happened one because Xaden help Violet to block Tairn’s feelings. So, it is worth it to read Iron Flame.

  • @danielvaldez1683
    @danielvaldez1683 3 місяці тому

    So its basically a book form of that Rick and Morty episode

  • @stefanielozinski
    @stefanielozinski 11 місяців тому +1

    I audibly laughed at at the seven minute mark 😂😂😂 this is what I watch UA-cam for

    • @stefanielozinski
      @stefanielozinski 11 місяців тому

      Update: walking down the street, uncontrollably cracked up when you talked about this book stretching your imagination 😅 imagining dragons a little tooooo much

  • @FadingIntimacy
    @FadingIntimacy 10 місяців тому

    I flee if I sniff even a hint of romantasy. The whole book screams at me visually :D

  • @mariareadsssf
    @mariareadsssf 11 місяців тому +2

    My feelings towards angsty YA marketed as Adult Fantasy : I DNFed "Atlas Six" at page 8.
    I don't mind it there is some romance in my Fantasy books, I don't mind if some things are implied but I rather not have the details. For example the explicit details from "The Green Bone Saga" and "The Broken Earth" felt unnecessary and added just for shock value. And I am saying that even though I loved both series.

    • @Merian8
      @Merian8 10 місяців тому +1

      But are you talking just about the sexual themes, or other things in general too? Because shock value isn’t just about sex. Genuinely asking!

  • @cinnsuamongar
    @cinnsuamongar 11 місяців тому

    I was hoping this would be similar to Anne McCaffery's Pern? Maybe I should just go back and read McCaffery. There's about 5 seconds of sex but most of it is Thread trying to burn everyone's faces off. If I am going to read smut, I kind of want a heads up. Lol.

  • @gemmah1592
    @gemmah1592 11 місяців тому +1

    Yeah, I am questioning the romance between the two main characters due to the link with dragons. I loved it for the other parts of the book but the romance was the weakest part.
    Also do read more weird books. I had picked it up for the stencilled edges and it was before it exploded all over social media.

  • @MandiMoons
    @MandiMoons 10 місяців тому

    this is how I felt reading this book too! started off alright very YA and then it just went weird. I feel it would of been better without the weird dragon shhmuut. I think this would be higher on my like list if this stayed YA and left out the random dragon spice and had more world building.

  • @b3ans4eva
    @b3ans4eva 10 місяців тому +1

    Screw the book, how was the jam?

  • @AyushGupta-qs5xw
    @AyushGupta-qs5xw 11 місяців тому

    Thats the most *I'm so done* title i have ever seen you put on a video lmao

  • @thelestrangelair
    @thelestrangelair 11 місяців тому +1

    Thanks for saving me the read.
    I hate love triangles. A tad of romance is okay but I mean not too much.
    I love dragons, my favorite dragon authors are Patricia C Wrede though placed ya it's just good fun fantasy and you'd like it. Then Barbara Hambly.
    Bella L

  • @jaycube26
    @jaycube26 11 місяців тому

    This reminds me of Along the Razor's Edge. There's a certain scene in the later half of the book I just couldn't get over. Completely destroyed the flow of the story and I ended up dropping the whole series.

  • @wifeunderthesea
    @wifeunderthesea 11 місяців тому

    this review was so funny. i've had it on my TBR for months and your review has just bumped it up so much because of how much you were laughing 😂

  • @crazyforbooksandcoffee
    @crazyforbooksandcoffee 11 місяців тому

    I take no responsibility at all for putting you through this 😂😂😂

  • @enju_lapidemsibilus
    @enju_lapidemsibilus 5 місяців тому

    I like
    Genuinely can’t tell if people hate this book
    Or love it secretly and just
    Are uncomfortable

  • @fil-_-
    @fil-_- 4 місяці тому

    Wish there was more focus on the human-dragon relationship, like, sometimes there are whole chapters in which there is practically NO dialogue with dragons...

  • @ChrisBrackman
    @ChrisBrackman 11 місяців тому

    if you're looking for Christian sci fi and fantasy I'd recommend:
    Brother Wolf by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson - Christian take on werewolf stories
    A Bloody Habit by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson - Christian take on vampires
    Eifelheim by Michael Flynn - first contact story in Middle Ages Germany
    A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr - Catholic monastery in the aftermath of World War 3
    And Tim Powers' work in general has a Christian undercurrent but especially in his novel Declare. Though his work does lean towards historical fiction than just fantasy.

  • @0okuzukirio0
    @0okuzukirio0 5 місяців тому

    Jóhan learning about Omegaverse for the first time =))))
    anw, I also don't want to read about Dragon in heat, not the mystical majestic being I know being reduced to housed dogs

  • @jacintatate
    @jacintatate 5 місяців тому +1

    This was the same issue I had with the book. First half was fun, school vibes, challenges, making friends, overcoming fears and using her knowledge from being a scribe to survive. ..... Then the second half happens : / . goes to ultra horny, and unhealthy obsession with Riorson and depletes the plot. When you were reading about his muscles I spat my water out! It sounds ridiculous when ya read it out loud. I cant stop laughing.

  • @MetalGildarts
    @MetalGildarts 11 місяців тому

    How is this YA?? Just the blurb would turn me away. Yeah definitely go back to church Johan looooool

  • @plumaloy
    @plumaloy 10 місяців тому

    I feel like everyone one thinks there is to much romance in this book, i agre it a litle graphic, but the next book is brobably going to go more in depth in the universe wile as Xaden and Violet relationship become more off a side subject.

  • @cybersketcher1130
    @cybersketcher1130 11 місяців тому +5

    So it turned out to be furrybait smut.

  • @alvaromedina3543
    @alvaromedina3543 6 місяців тому

    Is that episode of Rick and Morty where rick bonds with his horny dragon based on this book??

  • @Merian8
    @Merian8 10 місяців тому +1

    The part about their dragons being horny is actually so… minimal? It’s talked about so much in this video that it sounds like it’s recurrent or super important but it’s not. It’s a single scene from the MCs POV who happens to be feeling what they’re feeling, but the scene is focused on HER, not on the dragons. It is weird to sexualize dragons and I did find it weird to read, but about the dragons themselves, it’s very minimal! I think it’s a bit blown out of proportion in this video, tbh!

  • @gatesofthelibrary
    @gatesofthelibrary 11 місяців тому

    Now I am really glad I sold my copy.

  • @PaperTigerProductions
    @PaperTigerProductions 11 місяців тому

    8:43 sooooo I'm guessing you've never read anything in Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series? 😂 Two words: mating flights. Pern was one of the OG dragonrider series and, contrary to initial appearances, technically is sci-fi rather than fantasy.
    For romantasy recs that an epic fantasy reader would enjoy, I'm gonna recommend Melanie Cellier's Spoken Mage series. She's self-published and writes clean romance. Most of her back catalogue is fairytale retellings, but the Spoken Mage series is an original world and I found it a nice fun read as someone who almost exclusively reads epic fantasy. The romance storyline is pretty trope-y (common-born girl discovers she has special magic; gets sent to magic school where the brooding, aloof prince happens to be her classmate) but there's a decent epic fantasy storyline and magic system that is the main focus. If you enjoy the Spoken Mage books, there's also a sequel series set 20 years later called the Hidden Mage which follows the next generation and ties up some of the smaller loose ends to do with the magic that weren't resolved by the end of the Spoken Mage series.

    • @libraryofaviking
      @libraryofaviking  11 місяців тому +2

      I haven't yet but it's on my tbr! Thank you for the recommendation!

  • @thomaswrites
    @thomaswrites 11 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for reading it so I don't have to. 😂

  • @Aldarion65
    @Aldarion65 11 місяців тому +1

    the worst part about this book was that the book without the screwing dragons and obsessed humans was awesome imo, she wrote a good book and added sex into it for no reason, I am 36 years old and was listening to the audiobook while playing BG3 and got embarrassed for the writer a couple times lol

    • @Nassaldromus
      @Nassaldromus 10 місяців тому +2

      Yes. It would have been better without the explicit sex.
      Also, I think that if a male author had a male character speaking about a girl the way Violet talks about Xaden, it would be heavily criticized if even published at all.

    • @Aldarion65
      @Aldarion65 10 місяців тому

      @@Nassaldromus agreed

  • @jake_up8099
    @jake_up8099 3 місяці тому

    I made it through The 4th Wing then it was time for Iron Flame, both audiobooks. Needless to say I couldn't make it through the Iron Flame. Between the narrator's burbs and teenie bop obsession with Xaden I couldn't finish. I was drawn to the dragons and magic powers of course but The Fifty Shades of Grey/Twilight/Eragon mashup was too much. All of the high ratings have to be from girls from the ages of 15 to 25. I thought I could make it through it but nah, I'm good.

  • @arlissbunny
    @arlissbunny 11 місяців тому

    Yes! More to the vlogs! For me, the problem with romantasy and romance in general, is that it’s only rarely about romance and almost entirely about sexual attraction. And the whole added dragon element? No. Just no. Absolutely not.

  • @Paromita_M
    @Paromita_M 11 місяців тому +2

    Oh dear.
    Please avoid Nocticadia, I had the misfortune of reading it and cringed the entire time. 🤣

  • @heidis2330
    @heidis2330 8 місяців тому

    Why do you act surprised. A lot of dragon books the dragon is mentally attached to their rider and share the thoughts and emotions. Inheritance cycle by Christopher Palani for example

  • @coffee8599
    @coffee8599 5 місяців тому

    Everything in this book was extremely convenient. I understand your point about the dragons. I think it does sour the romance. Enemies to lovers are typically slowburn and it just feels like a plot device to speed it up to get to the smut. It also feels uncomfortable because until it gets to the se*ual bits, the MC reads like an immature 15 year old girl. Then suddenly, she acts like a p*rn star. It is ... jarring.

  • @e.d.m3076
    @e.d.m3076 11 місяців тому +1

    I get the sense you haven't read any of the Dragonriders of Pern books ;)

    • @libraryofaviking
      @libraryofaviking  11 місяців тому +2

      Not yet but they are on my tbr! Surely they are not the same as Fourth Wing!?

    • @e.d.m3076
      @e.d.m3076 11 місяців тому

      @@libraryofaviking Based on your video, I'd say they're quite different, but Fourth Wing has taken some inspiration from Pern. In the Pern world, dragons and their riders have an intense psychic connection, which means that when dragons mate, their riders get exceptionally randy.

    • @cjdflkj
      @cjdflkj 11 місяців тому

      @@e.d.m3076ew

  • @patytrico
    @patytrico 10 місяців тому

    It begans so good (well, I could live with less whinning about how weak the MC is) the story has good potential, there was the dragons bonding magic mystery... then screeching halt to the action... I hope to give it more than 3 stars but...

  • @greyowlaudio
    @greyowlaudio 11 місяців тому

    Wait wasn't this a Rick and Morty episode? 😳

  • @booksanddrafts
    @booksanddrafts 11 місяців тому

    funny, fantasy lover and christian?? Subscribed😂

  • @francesccampos1343
    @francesccampos1343 7 місяців тому

    It is just Twilight 2.0, big media repercusion and publisized under the fantasy tag, may be good or an ok romance novel but also a terrible as a fantasy novel because as i said they use fantasy as the bait not as the main focus of the story.

  • @FridmanB
    @FridmanB 11 місяців тому +2

    Great video! I'm reading Jade City and i was not expecting the very detailed sex scene (Hilo&Wen) especially not in the first 50 pages. I'm still liking the book and will most likely read the rest of the trilogy but it just gave me strong smut fan fic vibes and I haven't been able to take it as seriously as i'd like despite reading over 200 more pages since.

    • @tanja9364
      @tanja9364 11 місяців тому +2

      I felt the same way! I DO NOT want or need smut or religion in my fantasy . HOWEVER, Joe Abercrombie does the odd bit here and there so well and with humour!

    • @FridmanB
      @FridmanB 11 місяців тому +1

      @@tanja9364 I still haven't read any of hiss books. the first law is on my list though! i don't mind religion when its part of the worlds lore, Sanderson has different religions in both Mistborn and Stormlight and i think they add a lot to the world-building and the story

  • @holeyheartedmelissa4503
    @holeyheartedmelissa4503 11 місяців тому +28

    Christian fiction is a worthy video. I'm always on the lookout for Christian fantasy and science fiction. Christian romance is covered pretty well. 😆

    • @libraryofaviking
      @libraryofaviking  11 місяців тому +10

      It's definitely a subgenre I need to explore more!

    • @stefanielozinski
      @stefanielozinski 11 місяців тому +3

      As a Christian fantasy author and reader, I concur!!!

    • @victoriakeller3761
      @victoriakeller3761 11 місяців тому

      @@eurydiceshadowcry Any readers who were squicked out by Fourth Wing's dragon-influenced-lust should read content warnings for Pern, which literally does this in a non-consensual way with the main characters. Dragonflight (Book 1): "He had not thought to control his dragon-incited emotions, and Lessa’s first s3xual experience had been violent...He had been a considerate and gentle bedmate ever since, but, unless Ramoth and Mnementh were involved, he might as well call it r@pe." Several of the Pern books do this. Dragonsong does not, and is probably the safest/best option of the early books. Just wanted to warn anybody who was interested in dragon books, I was not expecting SA in the Pern books and it caught me offguard.

  • @nikhilmavi6076
    @nikhilmavi6076 11 місяців тому +3

    Man you gotta read more YA now
    This was really enjoyable lmao

  • @Yesica1993
    @Yesica1993 11 місяців тому +6

    Scones & cream & jam look so delicious. But please, for the love of humanity, ask the Brits to rename "clotted" cream. The only thing that is supposed to clot is blood. Why would they use that name? It grosses me out so much!

    • @libraryofaviking
      @libraryofaviking  11 місяців тому +2

      Love this comment 😂

    • @millymollymrst3537
      @millymollymrst3537 11 місяців тому +3

      Clotted cream is from South west England where I'm from. The cream is heated until it clots hence the name. It's the best cream you can get and we are very proud of it.😊

  • @seanhalpin87
    @seanhalpin87 11 місяців тому +1

    Theres a reason that i rarely *aka never* read hyped up tiktok darlings that fall into the romance YA genre, its not written for me, and my TBR is hundreds of books long, I dont have the time to read shit like this that i KNOW i wont enjoy
    Sorry for your loss of time

  • @BlueBelle277
    @BlueBelle277 3 місяці тому +1

    I liked it until the sex scene then I DNF’d 😂 I’m Christian too

  • @Cold_Zero_The_Wise
    @Cold_Zero_The_Wise 11 місяців тому

    I like the name and I love the book cover but it sounds like the whole book it a bunch of great ideas 💡 and wasted potential.