I finished the audio version of Fourth Wing, which sounds fun when I sum it up to people and I mention the tropes (enemies to lovers and her family killed his family! mommy issues! bookish disabled protagonist is thrown into elite combat training!), but the actual experience of listening to it was blah because 1) the protagonists are so so so generic, which i know happens often in romance but come on, 2) the translation was Bad, and 3) the reader decided it wasn't their duty to read it in a way that de-emphasized the awkward sentence structures the translator inflicted on us.
On the plus side, I'm reading Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris which doesn't seem to exist in English but it's about the lives of a fictional version of the Bronte sisters, told through the pov of people touched by them in some way (neighbors, scholars of their work, etc). Very gothic, very atmospheric, really enjoying it although I'm less than a third through.
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Date: 2025-03-13 12:40 pm (UTC)I finished the audio version of Fourth Wing, which sounds fun when I sum it up to people and I mention the tropes (enemies to lovers and her family killed his family! mommy issues! bookish disabled protagonist is thrown into elite combat training!), but the actual experience of listening to it was blah because 1) the protagonists are so so so generic, which i know happens often in romance but come on, 2) the translation was Bad, and 3) the reader decided it wasn't their duty to read it in a way that de-emphasized the awkward sentence structures the translator inflicted on us.
On the plus side, I'm reading Het lied van ooievaar en dromedaris which doesn't seem to exist in English but it's about the lives of a fictional version of the Bronte sisters, told through the pov of people touched by them in some way (neighbors, scholars of their work, etc). Very gothic, very atmospheric, really enjoying it although I'm less than a third through.