YMMV / The Fire Sermon

• Hype Backlash: Upon its initial release, The Fire Sermon was hyped as being 'the next The Hunger Games', sold well and got a movie deal before the first book was even published. The hype didn't last though; while the books aren't seen as awful by any means, more readers have since brought up the flaws in the writing and premise (common ones being that the treatment of the Omegas doesn't make much sense given their lives are directly tied to the Alphas, and that the characters can be flat and difficult to connect with) and the trilogy has since fallen into obscurity. It doesn't help that by the time the last book was published, the dystopian genre's popularity was running out of steam due to oversaturization, so The Fire Sermon quickly got lost in the crowd and the film adaptation never materialized.
• Jerkass Woobie: Zoe, depending on how you view her.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: The books are sometimes mistakenly labelled as Young Adult novels, but are actually aimed at an adult demographic; the main protagonist Cass is also in her early-to-mid twenties for most of the first book. The confusion is a bit more understandable given the first book was published when YA dystopia was a booming subgenre, nor did it help that it was often compared to The Hunger Games or Divergent, which are aimed primarily at teenage readers.

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