Heh, ditto on the extra fat books. I tried both Wheel of Time and Stormlight, and the way they do it is to have 3+ books per book. They just interweave them so it doesn't look like 3+ books per book. Dragonlance can pull it off, and so could Robin Hobb, mostly by having a billion characters, but at least they stayed plot relevant.
Also ditto with morally gray characters. Every Stephen Lawhead has these and it gets so tiring. Stick to your guns for once!
I’ve only read Hobb’s Farseer trilogy and I want to continue on, but there’s like a dozen more books in that world and it’s going to take me FOREVER to complete. Standalone fantasy books (or standalone books set in the same world) should be more popular.
Some of these “morally gray” characters are legitimately bad people, but because they have a charismatic personality, that makes them fine. For some reason.
Yeah, Hobb has a character like that in her Liveship trilogy. I wasn't aware he was really even a villain until the third book where he graphically rapes the heroine while fantasizing about doing a man. I was like ... holy cow ... I don't think I'm reading any more of this author's books after this.
My biggest fantasy pet peeve isn't exclusive to the books, but pervasive in anything fantasy related: getting the wyvern and dragon mixed up. Maybe this is a bit silly, but this has been a massive pet peeve of mine for ages and is actually my biggest gripe with The Hobbit films because Smaug is a dragon and yet the films depicted him as a wyvern and they really, really should have known better. These are completely different mythological creatures! Yes, they share some similarities, but a wyvern is not a 'type' of dragon. It's its own separate creature.
My sister and I were paying extra close attention as we'd noticed the tendency for movies to get the two mixed up (it was her biggest fantasy pet peeve too). They did an amazing job on making a wyvern and all, but when he's not supposed to be one that's a pretty irritating mistake to make. Sadly, there aren't nearly as many stories about wyverns as there are dragons, but there are some out there. I like putting both in mine. I love dragons, but I actually think I like the wyvern just that teeniest bit more.
Heh, ditto on the extra fat books. I tried both Wheel of Time and Stormlight, and the way they do it is to have 3+ books per book. They just interweave them so it doesn't look like 3+ books per book. Dragonlance can pull it off, and so could Robin Hobb, mostly by having a billion characters, but at least they stayed plot relevant.
Also ditto with morally gray characters. Every Stephen Lawhead has these and it gets so tiring. Stick to your guns for once!
I’ve only read Hobb’s Farseer trilogy and I want to continue on, but there’s like a dozen more books in that world and it’s going to take me FOREVER to complete. Standalone fantasy books (or standalone books set in the same world) should be more popular.
Some of these “morally gray” characters are legitimately bad people, but because they have a charismatic personality, that makes them fine. For some reason.
Yeah, Hobb has a character like that in her Liveship trilogy. I wasn't aware he was really even a villain until the third book where he graphically rapes the heroine while fantasizing about doing a man. I was like ... holy cow ... I don't think I'm reading any more of this author's books after this.
Yikes. I have the first book of that trilogy on my shelf and now I’m having second thoughts about reading it.
My biggest fantasy pet peeve isn't exclusive to the books, but pervasive in anything fantasy related: getting the wyvern and dragon mixed up. Maybe this is a bit silly, but this has been a massive pet peeve of mine for ages and is actually my biggest gripe with The Hobbit films because Smaug is a dragon and yet the films depicted him as a wyvern and they really, really should have known better. These are completely different mythological creatures! Yes, they share some similarities, but a wyvern is not a 'type' of dragon. It's its own separate creature.
I never noticed that about Smaug; that’s a pretty big mistake for them to make. Now I feel like I need to go find a story about wyverns!
My sister and I were paying extra close attention as we'd noticed the tendency for movies to get the two mixed up (it was her biggest fantasy pet peeve too). They did an amazing job on making a wyvern and all, but when he's not supposed to be one that's a pretty irritating mistake to make. Sadly, there aren't nearly as many stories about wyverns as there are dragons, but there are some out there. I like putting both in mine. I love dragons, but I actually think I like the wyvern just that teeniest bit more.