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A review by qjbrown96
The First Binding by R.R. Virdi
2.0
I’m all for taking inspiration from an author or even taking some plot points and giving it a twist, like Robert Jordan/Tolkien. But this is just straight plagiarism from Name of the Wind…
1.) You have a boy, Ari, who gets orphaned because an evil entity kills his family.
2.) Same style of writing where the protagonist is an infamous character who is telling his story of how he gained his reputation.
3.) a female character who is mysterious, goes by many names, and is always on the run
4.) Ari goes to a school to learn a particular skill to defeat said enemy who killed his family.
5.) He has a rich, dick head enemy of a student who wants him dead
6.) He has a teacher who doesn’t want to teach him but end up doing it due to Ari’s persistence.
7.) an incredibly slow story with little action but a poetic writing style
8.) Tells embellishments of his story to make his legend grow the way he wants
I was willing to overlook all of this because the story was still good and he definitely had some fun changes like including mythology and a new magic system but the absolute final straw for me was when his teacher pushed him off a ledge to prove a point of faith and then let second saved his life…that literally verbatim happened in NOTW…
I DNF’d at page 625 so who knows what other rip offs there were left
1.) You have a boy, Ari, who gets orphaned because an evil entity kills his family.
2.) Same style of writing where the protagonist is an infamous character who is telling his story of how he gained his reputation.
3.) a female character who is mysterious, goes by many names, and is always on the run
4.) Ari goes to a school to learn a particular skill to defeat said enemy who killed his family.
5.) He has a rich, dick head enemy of a student who wants him dead
6.) He has a teacher who doesn’t want to teach him but end up doing it due to Ari’s persistence.
7.) an incredibly slow story with little action but a poetic writing style
8.) Tells embellishments of his story to make his legend grow the way he wants
I was willing to overlook all of this because the story was still good and he definitely had some fun changes like including mythology and a new magic system but the absolute final straw for me was when his teacher pushed him off a ledge to prove a point of faith and then let second saved his life…that literally verbatim happened in NOTW…
I DNF’d at page 625 so who knows what other rip offs there were left