Quindi questa serie di libri รจ stata molto popolare ultimamente.
Fondamentalmente l’autore trae metร della trama dalla mitologia irlandese, ribattezzandola mitologia โpriticaโ e invertendo allo stesso tempo le dinamiche del colonismo.
Non si preoccupa nemmeno di costruire il mondo, si limita a tirare fuori qualunque mitologia le piaccia. Gli elementi principali della trama includono “dagda” “il calderone” “The Morrรญgan” e “Fionnbharr”.
“Hybern”, l’isola con sede in Irlanda (hiberna) รจ gestita da un re malvagio che schiavizza e uccide tutti gli umani (da “prythian”) su hybern.
Molte persone sembrano semplicemente dire “oh, รจ fantasia, non รจ reale”. E l’autrice ha detto piรน volte di non essere anti-irlandese.
Anche se รจ una fantasia rendere le persone provenienti da un’isola con sede al largo dell’Irlanda mostri ostili che odiano le persone dell’isola con sede al largo della Gran Bretagna sembra una cosa molto anti-irlandese da fare.
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di voidcharmed
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Itโs an excuse to write smut is all it is
Never heard of it but definitely seems like they’re at it again. Painfully obvious.
Just googled her. American. Checks out.
Pathetic honestly to take any offense over fiction, and in particular a fantasy / romance set in an alternate history. If you donโt like it read something else.
God it sounds tripe.
Every fantasy author draws on some other countriesโ legends. Look at the amount of Norses inspired works, look at a song of ice and fire. The chip in your shoulder seems a bit ott given what the work actually is
Meh. It has clear fanfiction vibes. It is what it is, and its not trying to be anything different imo. Not like most other stuff isn’t also just a mash up of fantasy elements. As you said, Its not even really concealed.
My main criticism of it is that the first book was pretty tame, and then the smut ramped way up. The first book is fine for the young adult section, but after that its a bit dodgy. Its always a bit awkward seeing the whole series shelved there in the library or whatever. I feel like a few people were probably not aware it ramped up like that.
It’s not Moanin’ Monday already, is it?!
Read the first one out of curiosity, won’t be reading any more.
Tried reading it once for light entertainment and it wasn’t my cup of tea. Couldn’t finish it and I found the smut kind of boring. Just read ao3. It appears to be a ramshackle of Irish, Scottish and Welsh mythos for the aesthetic.ย
Also stepping aside from the historical political angleย , it’s not really well thought out.ย It’s the whole completrly evil nation who have to be defeated and the logistics of island nation somehow being a consistent military threat without gaining land/resource doesn’t make a tack of sense. I also don’t accept that it’s YA as of that’s an excuse for bad world building.ย
Jesus, its a book. Calm down.
I mean, it’s just bad writing, before you even get into the specifics of the plotย
You should try The Gael Song trilogy by Shauna Lawless. Itโs set in medieval Ireland blending Irish mythology with historical fiction. 100% respect for Ireland and 0% smut.
There are certainly a lot of examples of this in (lower quality) fantasy novels, especially ones for kids. This is by far the worst example.
Racist gonna be racist tbh.
Yeah her books are very unpopular to put it kindly over on r/fantasy
Itโs the type of book I would write after feeling inspired by George RR Martins creative process but then I get bored after 1 day
I gave this ago. The laziness and racism aside, it’s absolute dogshit.
It’s like something a 13 would attempt after reading a decent fantasy series.