Has anyone else ever tried to convince their friends to read the books™, only for the conversation to go something along the lines of...
Friend: I'm not reading them
Me: Why not?
Friend: Because you don't sound like you like them very much, you complain about them all the time
Me: They have some problems, but they are really good
Friend: You said they have enough plot holes to function as a spaghetti strainer
Me: Well, yeah, but the worldbuilding heavily relies on time manipulation, so it's bound to happen...
Friend: The main character who is also the narrator of the story isn't very likeable
Me: Yes but everyone else is great more or less and he makes up for it by being relatable sometimes
Friend: You also said that the author frequently changes facts from previous installations and doesn't even bother to come up with an explanation
Me: Yes, but it was originally supposed to be a standalone book so i can let it slide
Friend: A standalone book that ends on a cliffhanger?
Me: I forgot i told you about that
Friend: Ok sure, what about the second trilogy then?
Me: Absolute garbage, publishing the fourth book shoud be considered a felony
Friend: Remind me which one is your favourite again?
Me: The... fourth one
Friend: Are you starting to see the problem here?
Me: Ok, fine, the story is poorly thought out and unsatisfying, interesting concepts keep being dropped in favour of progressing the plot and the continuity is a joke, but other than that they're amazing
Friend: So what do you actually like about them?
Me: The characters
Friend: The characters?
Me: Yes
Friend: The same ones you went on multiple rants about constantly acting out of character?
Me: Yes?
Friend: How do you even acomplish that in two trilogies?
Me: Rushing the creative process and not caring about your own work, combined with an utter disregard for previously established canon
Friend: I feel like you're just hallucinating your own version of the books at this point
...
Me: Pictures
Me: There's pictures
Friend: Can't argue with that lol
Like Ransom, Sir, you made my favourite thing in the world and i am infinitely grateful for it, but then you also kinda set it on fire repeatedly and i don't know how to feel about that part...
And for anyone wondering, they did in fact read the first book, i don't know why, I'm terrible at marketing it It might have something to do with the fact i have taken to describing Miss Peregrine as Mary Poppins with anxiety












