[ SECRET POST #6364 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #6364 ⌋

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


01.



__________________________________________________



02.



__________________________________________________



03.



__________________________________________________



04.



__________________________________________________



05.



__________________________________________________



06.



__________________________________________________



07.
















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 40 secrets from Secret Submission Post #910.
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)]

I think that's it. And I AM someone you can totally get with certain tropes and character archetypes!
I just feel like these books popular on tiktok are written like fanfic.
I love fanfic, but when I'm reading them, I don't need a proper introduction to the characters or setting, cause canon gives me those things.
These books are written like the audience already knows the world they take place in and it makes them incredibly flat - when you're lucky, at least the characters are decent-ish.
It's all just... watered down somehow?

Oh, and you can definitely tell that some quotes/scenes were written so other people could make Tiktok edits for the book. Aka the marketing is just highly obnoxious.

I DO wonder if the books in the secret are supposed to be examples, though cause while Tiktok's holy grail is there (the ACOTAR series), there are also others wildly beloved and considered good outside of Tiktok.

[feotakahari]

This frustrates me, because--and I am 100% tooting my own horn here--I think I'm really good at rapidly introducing context. Like, I can say a spell was "dug up in the Jadehill ruins" to establish that unknown spells from prior civilizations can just be dug up in this setting, and then I never need to mention Jadehill again, because it's already served its purpose. So I look at authors who fumble that and fail to give any context, and I'm like a football fan yelling at the players to catch the damn ball.