voidedzodiac t1_it6m5e7 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 9:10 AM

That series is one of the worst I've ever read

sliderstandingby t1_it7896c wrote on October 21, 2022 at 1:13 PM

I remember thinking it felt like YA by numbers with nothing real to offer

tsunami141 t1_it7ourk wrote on October 21, 2022 at 3:11 PM

Nothing in those books made any freaking sense, including introducing a second feminine love interest with 0 personality differences to the first besides being a little more flirty, while simultaneously practically erasing the first.

Also the reasoning for killing a bunch of kids was to cure a disease… by making them experience a bunch of weird situations?

Absolute nonsense honestly

Glittering_knave t1_it86lf3 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 5:09 PM

I read this with my kids when my kids were little. The first one was intriguing enough. The way to cure a virus was to ... I can't even explain it ... make them live out a weird a scenario that did something to their brains and then there was a cure, but all the kids had to die??? I just couldn't finish. It just didn't make sense.

throwaway-clonewars OP t1_it6msg9 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 9:20 AM

I don't have too high of hopes for it considering this first one, but its been sitting on my shelf for years so I figured I should at least read it once.

Got quite a few series like that I'm working through like that- especially the movie ones I never actually got around to. I'm going to be so sad if Eragon ends up the same. I hope not, since I've heard good things, but same was for this book so who knows.