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.

  • Lemp_Triscuit11@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m tired of having everything tied up for me lore-wise at the end. It seems like authors have a trend these days of being super proud (rightfully so!) and their intricate lore and then explain every single bit of it to me by the end. All the mystery and magic all explained, eventually, like some sort of mathematic equation.

    I do enjoy books like that but I also miss when folks would leave a little bit of it unfigured out. And not like little diddly things that realistically were just there to be a red herring- I mean big shit like what the fuck is Tom Bombadil or… literally everything in Gene Wolfe lol

    • Long-Spot7011@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Oh yeah, that’s cool! It’s still pretty unsettling not to confirm the identity of Tom Bombadil and if he’s actually like a god or just a wizard 😂