Hi, fellow book readers! I’m a writer to-be who is writing a fantasy novel.

So my question is: what would you like to see more and less in a fantasy novel? Storylines that excite you or bore you? Character developments that would be unexpected or something that’s traditional is still hot? More smut or less smut?

Any ideas are welcome ♥️

Ps. Although reading latest fantasy books myself, I wanted to hear from “professionals”: who read it for fun and not analysing every sentence like me 😅 aka actually feeling it end enjoying it.

  • Forest_Friluftsliv@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    To echo what some other comments say, I want less romance in my fantasy. Unless an author has a knack for depicting romantic relationships I find romance falls flat in fantasy novels. Plus if the plot or story is about saving the world or overthrowing an empire than a romance subplot (god forbid a love triangle) seems like a distraction in relation to the larger narrative.

    And then my other thing I always like to see in fantasy is having the main character being an audience surrogate. Having the main character introduced to the world and concepts at the same time as the reader always makes it easier to slip into a fantasy novel (examples that come to mind are Lord of the rings, The Hobbit, Eragon, Harry Potter, The Name of the Wind, and even Game of Thrones to a certain extent as we learn about the world through the Stark children and Daenerys)