I love discovering a fantasy series on my own – one that I come to without the influence of hype or expectations. It is rare these days, but it does happen. For me, this was Hounsom’s Worldmaker Trilogy, which has ...
Read More »The Shannara Chronicles: Predictable tale of good vs. evil
We are seeing more and more science fiction and fantasy on both the big and slightly smaller screens these days. Finally studios have acknowledged the audience for genre work – but is that really such a good thing? The flood ...
Read More »Epic, heroic, urban… What’s the difference between fantasy sub-genres?
To the disappointment of most of my fantasy-loving friends, I am not generally a fan of fantasy in the Tolkien tradition. That being said, I do enjoy a good deal of fantasy writing. While Tolkien’s style of high, epic fantasy ...
Read More »Rat Queens: Put the sexy back in large wholesale slaughter!
I recently did some impulse buying of comic books. You hear about so many good series, sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. Picking up on various recommendations, I purchased the volume one trade paperbacks of The Wicked + The ...
Read More »The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
It is no secret that I tend to loathe anything Tolkien. I haven’t been a fan of Peter Jackson’s adaptations of The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit so far, so it should come as no surprise that I didn’t think all that ...
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