[ SECRET POST #5306 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5306 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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02. [SPOILERS]




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03. [SPOILERS for the Tearling trilogy by Erika Johansen]




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04. [SPOILERS for Danganronpa V3]
















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05. [WARNING for animal death]



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06. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia]




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07. [WARNING for discussion of sexual harassment]














Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #759.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There’s plenty. It gets a lot of reverence for being ‘good for its genre’, but as an adult, it’s just kind of okay. The ending definitely feels as phoned in as it did upon the first read. There’s better fantasy that I could have been reading at that age, and there’s better fantasy coming out now. OP’s secret feels more like they’re being overly defensive about still liking it, but that’s just me.

[(Anonymous)]

The first three books are exceptionally good for young adult fantasy. Not the greatest ever written, but the writing is genuinely at a very, very high level of quality. Prisoner of Azkaban, in particular, is really grade-A top-notch primo material. It fucking rips.

Books 4-7 aren't nearly as good. They're still fine (as books divorced from the personal failings of their author) but there's a massive downgrade. So if you take the series as a whole, yes, it has major problems. But the first three books are what made it a phenomenon.

[(Anonymous)]

That’s a pretty fair assessment of the drop off in quality. I just remember feeling betrayed by book 7 when I was old enough to be part of the target audience. Reading them later, before the JKR blowup, they were just kind of average reading that took off with its target audience at the right time. It just kinda cracked the YA success formula that publishers push now.