![]() ![]() The plot has a bit of mystery, plenty of scheming, and of course, an amazing romance. ![]() ![]() “Who in the world would steal and then not keep the riches for themselves? That’s just bad business.” I personally didn’t mind, because everything I needed was explained perfectly, but don’t come into this expected a Game of Thrones level amount of worldbuilding and depth here. She writes amazing banter between characters, and she manages to create a fantasy world without ever overwhelming the reader. There is a hint of magic in this world, and it has its explanations and is fully grounded, but other than kingdom politics, not much else of the world is explained. Tricia Levenseller became one of my favorite authors after Daughter of the Pirate King for a few key reasons, and one of them being her writing style. I love Kallias, master of the art of complementing someone and insulting them at the same time Writing & Setting ![]()
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky ![]() If you answered yes to the two questions above, here are 25 books that you’ll love if you read TFIOS. ![]() 25 Books to Read if You Like The Fault in Our Starsīy Makeba Giles on August 1st, 2014 | No Comments »ĭid you fall head-over-heels with The Fault In Our Stars like everyone else? Have you found yourself craving even more of the fun, romance, thrills and tragedy of the number-one bestselling novel? ![]() ![]() ![]() And there were a lot of circumstances that led to that that I don’t even care to think about super hard, because it’s so stressful. ![]() The tragedy of Trump is that he rose as high in power as he did. But he is also not singular: tyrants are a dime a dozen. OM: Villiam, who’s the lord of Lapvona, definitely has some things in common with our former president, but was I really thinking about it as metaphor? I just wanted to escape into another world that was even more fucked up than the world I was living in, but also had some magic and some depths and weirdness that I thought could express something that I couldn’t otherwise.ĬMM: Trump feels so singular. There’s something deliciously ambivalent about Lapvona at the end you’re like, well, things are weird. When you said fairytale, it feels correct, because for me there’s an intuitive logic in a fairytale, a sort of unfurling. You can do research, but on some level, you’re just imagining yourself into a fantasy world. ![]() I’m actually writing poetry right now, quickly and impressionistically and in one sitting – I’ve got a lot of stuff going on right now, and it feels like I need these little places to put it.īut I was thinking about Lapvona: I do feel like writing historical fiction is a lot like writing fantasy. ![]() I would much rather write fiction, as it turns out. ![]() |