I understand when worldbuilding is warped in order to support the story that an author wants to tell, but it can throw me out of a book entirely if other aspects are not sufficiently compelling. It's also the sort of thing that has me stopping hours or days later and thinking, "Wait--"
Have you read The Iron Will of Genie Lo? I read it this week and enjoyed it a lot. I gave both books to one of my nieces who'd been put off by the word 'crush' in the title of the first book. She didn't want to read about high school romance and assumed that the title indicated that. She became very interested once she actually looked at the blurbs.
I know there are people who adored Space Opera. I'm never sure with things like this whether it's a gap in my cultural understanding or just a vast chasm in tastes/preferences. The people who loved it aren't actually wrong; I just don't understand. If that makes sense?
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Date: 2020-03-02 04:13 am (UTC)Have you read The Iron Will of Genie Lo? I read it this week and enjoyed it a lot. I gave both books to one of my nieces who'd been put off by the word 'crush' in the title of the first book. She didn't want to read about high school romance and assumed that the title indicated that. She became very interested once she actually looked at the blurbs.
I know there are people who adored Space Opera. I'm never sure with things like this whether it's a gap in my cultural understanding or just a vast chasm in tastes/preferences. The people who loved it aren't actually wrong; I just don't understand. If that makes sense?