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handle with care; the fantasy edition
It took me a long time to actually write this post because generally, I adore fantasy novels. Fantasy is one of those genres where you can take a whole bunch of tropes and turn them on their head. Do all authors take advantage of this fact? No, they do not. And it’s a shame. But of course, as in all genres, there are things that I feel are handled poorly more often than not, and things I would love to see worked into the story less for plot convenience and more naturally. Sometimes, the use of prophecies in stories just seems a way to make the main character the focus,…
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instant to-read; the fantasy edition
I feel like some of this will have overlapped with things I have written in either the ‘instant to-read; the paranormal edition‘ or the ‘handle with care; the paranormal edition‘ blog posts, but I did say I feel like genres overlap a lot, right? Fantasy is probably my favourite genre of all time. Close behind is science-fiction, but even then I prefer less science and more fiction. The story must always be very strong for me to enjoy any book. Some of my automatic reads are things pointed out by some of my favourite bloggers so I usually do get a gist of these things from them before adding them…