What does /lit/ think of Throne of Glass?

>>8486269
I mean. It looks like pulpy genrefic

it's YA

the author is a fucking cutie tho

Recently the titles of YA have been really annoying me - "shadow and bone" "city of bones" "daughter of smoke and bone" "throne of glass" "city of glass" etc etc ad nauseum. Seems to me a pretty cynical attempt to cash in whilst also making the genre boring and standardised and homogeneous. I don't read YA but the YA fantasy industry could be offering much more to kids/teens than this samey pap.

And why is everything a fucking eighteen novel series? And whopping great volumes too, 600 odd pages sometimes. I watched something on book tube (I know) about one book which was just one in a presumably never-ending cash cow series which was longer than basically everything - the three original Foundation books put together, for example. Now I'm not saying that long books are a bad thing, but does every ya fantasy book need to be the same size, shape, cover art, title, font for the title?

It's every female power fantasy cliche mixed together in a toilet bowl.
>main character is an exiled princess
>spends her life training to be a professional killer
>participates in a death match tournament
>gets involved in a love triangle
>has handsome male soldiers at her beck and call

>>8486276
What's ya? Young adult? What's the definitions of that genre?

>>8486440
It's more of a demographic than a genre. They typically have teenage protagonists that rebel against authority and are really preachy about individualism.

This stuff has always been around, it just changes form. In my time it was Dungeons & Dragons novels. I fucking devoured Dragonlance novels as a kid but in retrospect its the more unusual fantasy YA novels that strayed away from the LOTR formula I remember fondly. The Edge Chronicles was my shit. Warhammer 40K novels had some surprisingly imaginative stuff, though that might be a tad less tween oriented.

>>8486389
sarah literally put her face on the original frot of throne of glass kek

>>8486888
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