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What I personally look for in a fantasy book.

My favorite elements in fantasy books and why I love them so much 

I’ll be completely honest and be the first to admit that I did not grow up reading fantasy books. I grew up reading thrillers so fantasy is something that I had to learn how to read and develop the skill of reading because your brain needs to be able to create these images in your mind and it needs to be able to comprehend a different writing style and it is a skill overall to be able to Easily read fantasy and I’m still very much working on that which is why these are the elements that I prefer most in fantasy

The first urban fantasy series I ever read was from Jackson Ford, and it was very much like a Deadpool vibe with a female protagonist, a disabled computer geek programmer, who is basically also a hero and then there’s a lot of other things going on and it was a series in that kind of set the tone for what I really enjoyed in fantasy sci-fi in general because it was such a genre mashup, but it had so many elements that you can easily create stories from in the writing style was something I could grasp on and so then I looked for more urban fantasy books, and I found a lot of luck 

Nia Quinn is the next author that I found that I really enjoyed and she writes quirky like snarky urban fantasy and I am still waiting on her other two books to come out but I absolutely am in love with her writing style and she really takes her time and like put so much energy and passion into her writing and so that’s why I love her book so much is because you can tell she’s writing for the love of writing 

I may or may not have subscribed to her Snark central club because I had to and she sent me stickers and a keychain and so I am like 10 times more biased about her books now, but I am so in love with her writing style and if she writes a book, I’m reading it 

I also really love Alice in Wonderland 

Bookshops and bone dust was another book that I picked up next and I really enjoyed that one 

And then I tried to diversify my reading more as I was reading Mohr fantasy so I picked up the fifth season as that was the most recommended book to me and it is now one of my top books of all time 

The fifth season the oval gate, those two books showed me how you can have a completely different writing style that in and out of itself can be our fault and that book changed my brain chemistry quite a bit because it showed me that the first person writing point of view is not superior anyway shape or form and that just because it was a comfortable writing style that I was used to it was also extremely limiting and to see a third person POV writing style With something I was completely unfamiliar with, and to completely grasp onto it and love the book showed me that I could really enjoy fantasy written in different writing styles and written by completely different people from different backgrounds and still really connect with it

After this, I started reading a lot more of hard science fiction because I was missing my project Hail Mary fixed and then I got back into reading high fantasy 

I enjoy dark fantasy as well, but it usually has to be queer dark fantasy and the tropes have to be fairly specific because I feel like a lot of the dark fantasy. I see it has very taboo tropes in it that are just a bit too out of my comfort zone. 

-Fantasy is definitely my favorite and I love it when there’s MichMash retellings put together so you have a wheel that you’re not completely reinventing, but you are also creating an entirely new world with different element elements and that is my favorite type of fantasy book 

I’m still very much figuring out which fantasy books I enjoy the most in which when I don’t and I for sure thought that I didn’t enjoy romance very much in my fantasy, but I think a lot of fantasy books have not a ton of spice and more so yearning intention, which helps further character development, so I do enjoy romance  in my fantasy

I am not a huge fan of school environment and fantasy just because I am so burnt out of school and I’m not in an age range wear school is something that’s relatable to me anymore. I am more so attracted to workplace vacation types of tropes slice of life types of tropes. 

My favorite genre of sci-fi fantasy I think would have to be RPG LIT

it seems to be a semi new genre, but I might be wrong, but it’s a branch off of video games and it combines a video game concept in with an adventure storytelling and I really like it because it’s comfortable and you kind of know what to expect as far as the balance of what could happen in a video game but you also have room for creativity as far as what could happen in a video game and you also have linear progression of with skittle sometimes and it’s just a fun exciting read also being comfortable and usually they’re fairly easy as well

Kia leap is by far my favorite lit RPG author 

I also recently read a high fantasy book that I loved that’s an arc and it’s called the moon witch 

Yeah, I really enjoy specific fantasy books that don’t have a huge focus on the relationship and violating the woman and are more so focused on the environment the character development and just going on an adventure 

For me and fantasy having a big conflict in a lot of stress is not something I look too and not something that’s important to me . In thrillers that is completely different in a thriller book. I need to be a lot of conflict to happen like John Mars level the one you need to throw in so many things that I am constantly wondering what’s going to happen next. Fantasy I do not have the expectation for at all.  

These are just my personal opinions on my experience since I really only been reading fantasy for about a year now and I used to really just read Alison Wonderland over and over again because it was my favorite 

I will say I also really like Frankenstein, but I think that’s science fiction technically