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To be honest, it very much depends on what books it’s being compared too. For example, ‘Divergent meets Twilight” would probably be a huge turn off for me because neither of those two books were something that every intrigued me or that I enjoyed.

I write fantasy, and I’ve found that usually it’s pretty hard to find a good novel among those that are compared to other famous works/popular authors, mainly because a lot of them are literally crosses of the two novels or draw waaay to heavily from the inspiration those books offered them. I’m not saying using certain elements from other books is wrong, or being inspired by other books, but there’s a line between transferring an element or being inspired and actually stealing from those books.

Also, in a good fantasy novel, there’s usually an amount of uniqueness that can’t be compared to other novels. I for one can say that if you like Narnia, you may like Lord of the Rings, and if you like Lord of the Rings, you may like Eragon, but that doesn’t mean any of those books are actually really similar to each other. They all deal with pretty unique ideas and are built up in different ways.

So yes, to some degree I write these books off as copycat stories, but there’s also a few books that I’ve enjoyed a lot. One thing I’m careful to do now is to always read the summary/sample pages before writing off any novel that originally interested me, because I may be surprised.

As for what I’d compare my own WIP to…. I’m not sure, honestly. Lord of the Rings…. meets Avatar: The Last Airbender? (We’ll ignore that Avatar isn’t a novel. XD)