So I found this video today which is 47 mins long. For the most part I don't disagree with what he says. But they is one I disagree with which is that prince of nothing is untruthful because it doesn't show the breath of the human condition and focused on the dark elements. 

To be clear, he doesn't say he wishes it was less dark but rather it wasn't nuanced in it's depiction of the human condition but I fail to see thr problem.

Now personally as much as I loved bakker being able to tell a 7 book series in a seemingly none teleological world where he is only interested in depicting the evil part of the human condition with-as the YouTuber put it-surgical precision, I did feel like cj from San andreas at times going "oh shit, here we go again". I mean many parts were still surprising but it did feel numb in places. But you see, this personal issue for me is not something that is so much inherently wrong but more a sort of personal threshold a writer can reach for me that the darkness stops hitting for me. Others will have a higher threshold than me. But the idea that a story must depict every good or is not truthful seems odd to me.

They are many stories that more interested in depicting the good part of the human condition or positive part without much interest in the evil but this complaint of depicting nuance isn't levied at them. Or at least in a great manner as grimdark books.

They are some criticism of grimdark books I agree with. I don't thibk a story needs to be vulgar or pornographic to leave an impact but sometimes the complaints just feel like they wish they were comforted by goodness rather than an inherent thing a story has to have when they complain about a simple world. Simple because it is dark.

Is prince of Nothing Untruthful?