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<blockquote data-quote="innerdude" data-source="post: 9611266" data-attributes="member: 85870">Yeah, not all fiction will be to everyone's taste, but a quick perusal of the Amazon and Goodreads ratings gives me a pretty decent leg to stand on that most fantasy fans will find much to enjoy.While from a certain point of view, I can maybe see the &quot;Gary Stu&quot; complaint, from another viewpoint it's hard to reconcile, since the hero gets the living (insert relevant naughty word) beat out of him pretty much the entire book.The protagonist of Name of the Wind is 10x the Gary Stu that Blood Song's is, and no one seems to rail at NotW or its sequel.The most common complaint you'll see on Goodreads is that because it was originally a self-published title (later picked up by a major publisher), there's still hints of a lack of editing present in the text. I've read this book six or seven times and maybe found a grand total of a half-dozen passages that evidenced its self-published origin, none of which were even remotely enough to dampen my enjoyment.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="innerdude, post: 9611266, member: 85870"] Yeah, not all fiction will be to everyone's taste, but a quick perusal of the Amazon and Goodreads ratings gives me a pretty decent leg to stand on that [I]most[/I] fantasy fans will find much to enjoy. While from a certain point of view, I can [I]maybe[/I] see the "Gary Stu" complaint, from another viewpoint it's hard to reconcile, since the hero gets the living (insert relevant naughty word) beat out of him pretty much the entire book. The protagonist of [I]Name of the Wind[/I] is 10x the Gary Stu that [I]Blood Song[/I]'s is, and no one seems to rail at [I]NotW [/I]or its sequel. The most common complaint you'll see on Goodreads is that because it was originally a self-published title (later picked up by a major publisher), there's still hints of a lack of editing present in the text. I've read this book six or seven times and maybe found a grand total of a half-dozen passages that evidenced its self-published origin, none of which were even remotely enough to dampen my enjoyment. [/QUOTE]

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