All I can say is please get out of my head because I couldn’t have said it any better myself I totally understand and agree with you prayers and blessings to you and your boyfriend and your families love your Aussie family friend and supporter John ❤❤❤❤

All those reasons are true but I would especially emphasize the attention span/literacy argument. Younger women in general are reading essentially book porn or low brow poorly written YA fantasy. Young men in general are not reading at all, and if they do it's self help bs. The ones not fitting in these sections want to read beyond the aforementioned genres but don't have the attention span or are too overworked to dedicate time to reading at all. So, most students now are reading 3-4 grades below their level, movies and shows are heavily corporatized and are catering to the lowest common denominator, ai art is starting to be widespread, music is utter garbage, soon enough there will be no distractions left to cover the socio-political situation were in. This is part of a general decay in society that is now at exponential levels, so to be expected but still sad.

@@alb0zfinest You are BANG ON with the part that younger women are reading poorly written books and I'm speaking from personal experience. I used to be a part of that demographic before. After reading the abomination that was Fourth Wing, I picked up the Greenbone saga by Fonda Lee and realized that difference between actual fantasy and some trope filled garbage written to make young readers think they are reading fantasy. And the dark romance genre is another thing that is ruining the quality of books being popularised.

I am not saying there is no truth to it at all, but I do not agree with the oversimplified and generalised nature of the way you put it. First, reading taste is subjective. The fact that you think a book is bad, does not mean it has no merit for others. Second, a lot of people get into reading through lighter and more digestable books. A lot of us have fond memories of the first books that makes us excited about reading, but they may not hold up on a reread once we have explored our reading taste more. Despite that, they got us there. They made us want to read. I think that is something in which they have succeeded, even if they were not the best book ever written. There is thus merit in those books. Third, books need to meet you in the moment. That may be based on age, gender and taste, but also personal circumstances. For instance, when you are going through things, you may enjoy more of a popcorn light angsty book because you just want a nice distraction. Etc. Etc. I am not saying you said anything to discount that necessarily, but the way you put it made me a bit uncomfortable. So, I just wanted to add this to maybe add bit more nuance.

Yet, I am on booktok at the moment a lot… I see why this argument is formed. They are late about 4-5 years even if they like epic fantasy. They are just about reading Mistborn. Most of them. And I’m talking about the impactful accounts, that means a lot who are following them are the same. Checking their videos? They have some intentions to read epic fantasy or course. But the fact that a lot of you who have the experience are not there giving recommendations? They are “children” in the topic and booktok works way more on recommendations than booktube. As you know the technical aspects are literally like I could make a snitch for the question of the TikTok to answer it: “here is the book I recommend if you like that!” And there are trends there they follow.. “if you liked hunger games, read red rising…” hashtag.. see my point? But they have a very limited list. As an example when I made for a test a vid for Malazan? It was a very rare video. Almost nobody made it. ☝️So how would they know what’s going on with that famous series when there is no content on booktok about it? Nobody bothered to make some! Or about Sun Eater. I believe only 3 of us made vid about it at all. And I don’t have an USA SIM card yet to target American audiences so I can’t get view numbers there. I will manage it somehow later. But that’s the point. Booktok has 2 billion videos and it’s only a few about epic fantasy, yet a lot about romantasy or YA-ish fantasy like Shadow and Bone. Now why would the publisher care about us? 👀 Next they published 4th Wing in a number we never saw before (they printed at first edition in higher numbers than Brando Sando’s books!!!) because they were sure they can sell it. How they were this sure? They built an audience already on TikTok. Hype train. Influencers. So are the complainers totally wrong? No. But it’s not destroying reading. Can be a bad effect on quality tho because they only listen to the almighty dollar and that’s in these poorly written books.

Unless you're Brandon Sanderson.

@@FMD-FullMetalDragon yeah this is for new authors

I‘ve also started the Bound and the Broken series and love it. Of Blood and Fire is unputdownable. Soo good. Can’t wait to continue the series. I have to get the physical books for this one.

I was thinking of this series too when it comes to ‘recent’ epic fantasy series! I am only on the second book tho but after the fall and of blood and fire I can tell the scope of everything is huge but I have only scratched the surface

Repetitive and very poorly thought out argument. Yes there has always been, but what was the proportion of it then vs now?Where before it might've been 80-20 (that's being generous) now it's almost the complete opposite where it's 20-80 of adult fantasy vs YA and "romantasy." Also compare the writing quality and prose previously of those "romantasies," vs what's written now and you'll see how drastic the differences are. I have no problem with romantasy, in fact I prefer if a fantasy book has a romance aspect instead of some of the cringe slapped on relationships like in WOT for example. But they have to be well written and currently that's not only not the case, it's so far from the case that I don't even know how these books are being published.

Agree with this assessment - original Mistborn tripling was his peak writing for me, and I haven’t finished WOT with the two books he wrote yet but Sanderson’s newer work has been quite a miss for me

Yes, it’s so unfortunate 😢😢

Well don't tell that to Patrick Rothfuss and George RR Marting it's taking them forever to finish their series

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@@BookswithBrittanyif you need some fantasy recommendations I'd suggest some R.A Salvatore. He doesn't exactly write epic fantasy but it is high fantasy and quite well written (unlike someone like Sanderson). David Gemmell might also scratch the itch. Again unfortunately not on the scale of WOT or ASOIAF but they have the older fantasy immersive quality. You can also try Terry Goodkind, some are slog and he's a controversial author, but his world is immersive.