read a book review where someone said "I didn't like X character so I skipped all their chapters. really wish this book had [thing present in X character's chapters]."
and.......I guess that's fine because we're all free citizens in this beautiful world, but I didn't know you could do that. I didn't know you could just skip chapters.
I think it’s the fact that they rated this book that threw me so much. because they gave it a low rating and said “I wish we’d learned more about Y character’s family” BUT WE DID! IT WAS IN THE CHAPTERS THEY SKIPPED! I’M GOING TO HAVE AN ANEURYSM
LMAOOOOO welcome to Being an Author. One time I got a goodreads review on A Taste of Gold and Iron which said it "didn't have any worldbuilding in it" never mind the fact that it's a second-world fantasy and this setting is inspired by the Ottoman Empire and has matrilineal inheritance which means they have three different words for "father" and a maternal uncle is more important than any of those, and they've got a two-god religion which explicitly influences some of the characters' choices and perspectives and part of this religion involves basically doing therapy with a temple priest, and that's not to mention all the countries and languages mentioned, or the magic system where some people get sort of a psychic synaesthesia when they touch metals --
no worldbuilding in this bad boy tho
the literature equivalent of those "I replaced half of the ingredients with others and the cake turned out bad" cooking comment sections
















