the description I hear thrown around a lot is Harry Potter for kids who read HP but are now YA
I can definitely see why people would say that, and that's kind of what I was expecting going in, but it's one of the reasons I found the first book weird reading -- because the thing in HP is, Harry loves Hogwarts, and so you the reader are invited to love it as well. On the other hand, the Scholomance books are not satisfying for someone who likes school, and so were not satisfying to me as a magic school narrative (though I liked other things about the two I've read so far).
but I saw it like the only real nomination-able thing they could've picked to demonstrate the changes?
Yeah, I think it was pretty much like that, and it's what reconciled me to it winning ultimately, I guess. Even though I still maintain it was not-great as far as acceptance speeches go.
(the Best Related Work category is such a weird thing in general... I'm really curious to see if it will end up changing or being split up in some way in the near future, because it's just become such a wild mix of things one really can't compare)
I can definitely see why people would say that, and that's kind of what I was expecting going in, but it's one of the reasons I found the first book weird reading -- because the thing in HP is, Harry loves Hogwarts, and so you the reader are invited to love it as well. On the other hand, the Scholomance books are not satisfying for someone who likes school, and so were not satisfying to me as a magic school narrative (though I liked other things about the two I've read so far).
but I saw it like the only real nomination-able thing they could've picked to demonstrate the changes?
Yeah, I think it was pretty much like that, and it's what reconciled me to it winning ultimately, I guess. Even though I still maintain it was not-great as far as acceptance speeches go.
(the Best Related Work category is such a weird thing in general... I'm really curious to see if it will end up changing or being split up in some way in the near future, because it's just become such a wild mix of things one really can't compare)
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