That's the thing, I don't like standard fantasy, I like a story within a story, I like multi-level complexity in a story. I enjoy a story that has depth, and not easy to figure out in the first few chapters. I also enjoy history, I love history actually, but that is also a problem with writing, I have to create a story with history merged in the middle of it to make it more something I'd enjoy reading.Montegriffo wrote:Not the kind of book I would normally choose to read (with the exception of Pratchet) I would never have read The Last Changeling if it had not been written by someone who has been a freind for nearly 30 years. Most of my book collection is non-fiction.
Same with TC's book, in a library I would just walk past the fantasy section on my way to the history books.
Obviously I read Tolkein as a kid, who didn't, but the rather dry ancient history of The Silmarillion was always my favourite of his works.
Teenage vampire books? I'll take a pass thanks I've still not read enough about bronze age hill fort construction.
The vampire stories, my wife read, and she told me I'd not enjoy them... I tried to watch the show but it just got me angry...
One of the things I have done is that all the races were brought on by magic that splintered one race into what we see now. Each race has their own culture, and you will see how they interact with each other because each race was created to balance or give superiority over other races they were fighting against at the time.
I have also created lands, and regions, as well as regional cultures I have touched upon in the first 10 chapters, which will be expanded upon as time goes by, but right now I am starting to get the book moving, and that for me is tough because I have so much rolling on my head, I don't need to get bogged down with the details...
