Small rant, but has anyone else noticed how often the word “smile” shows up in Quest Academy?
I started noticing it around book 3, and now I can’t unsee it. It feels like the characters are constantly smiling, smirking, grinning, or reacting with some kind of smile.
Out of curiosity, I did a word search for “smile” across a few books in my kindle library. Most of them had the word around 130–150 times.
Quest Academy though :
Book 1: 505 times
Book 2: 423 times
Book 3 (the Joker becomes the Mayor): 694 times
Book 4: 777 times
Book 5: 643 times
I still enjoy the series, but this has become one of those tiny writing tics that jumps out at me every time now, like I feel a bee sting every time I read it.
u/Deamhansion — 10 days ago