It wasn’t that long ago that fantasy literature conjured images of Tolkien’s hobbits and a seriously evil gold ring, the medieval world of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
But the genre of fantasy has grown, maturing into varied and nuanced literary genre.
Following enormous mainstream success of fantasy book series with characters like the witches and wizards of Harry Potter, the vampires and werewolves of Twilight and The Southern Vampire Mysteries, and dragons of A Song of Fire and Ice, fantasy has exploded in modern media. With consumer interest at an all time high, it seems like every network, fueled by the continuing success of fantasy books have now dabbled their toes in the world of make believe. All one has to do it look to a series like Grimm, Penny Dreadful, or Once Upon a Time to see that the real world has finally embraced the fantasy world of make-believe.
So join us as review the best books that modern fantasy and speculative fiction have to offer.***
The Dragon Reborn is the third book in The Wheel of Time fantasy book series by Robert Jordan. Originally published in 1991 less than a year after The Great Hunt. The Dragon Reborn begins after after the battle at Falme where Rand battled Ba’alzamon in the skies over Falme and …
The Great Hunt for the Horn of Valere begins… The Great Hunt is the second book in The Wheel of Time fantasy book series by Robert Jordan. Originally published in 1990 on the heels of The Eye of the World. The Great Hunt begins after Rand, Matt, Perrin, Egwene, Nynaeve, …
The Eye of the World is the original first book of the Wheel of Time fantasy book series written by Robert Jordan, first published in 1990. In 2002, The Eye of the World was divided into two books, From the Two Rivers and To the Blight, re-released as a two …
New Spring is the prequel to the Wheel of Time fantasy book series written by Robert Jordan and finished after his death by Brandon Sanderson of Mistborn and Stormlight Archive fame. Wheel of Time ~ New Spring Fantasy Book Review The story takes place twenty years before the events in …
I’ve been off-blog for a while but I think you will agree that my time was well spent for the most part. I’ve been on a fantasy books reading safari of epic proportions. A journey that took me to strange and wonderful worlds full of magic, dragons, evil overlords, and …
Book Review for: The Awakening – Before True Light is a Young Adult Fantasy novel by Sarah Buchynski Amazon Synopsis: The fate of the world is uncertain…A secret society, historical protectors of mankind and thought to have been lost for centuries, re-emerges in dire times. A young girl named Izanami, …
Women In Science Fiction And Fantasy – Why are women treated so differently than men? Over the last couple of weeks, I read several articles about gender disparity in SF/F. It all started with the article “I Hate Strong Female Characters” by Sophia McDougall published in The Statesmen. Pretty soon, …
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In a previous post, I talked about the definition of Low Fantasy. Today, I’m tackling defining High Fantasy. High Fantasy takes place in a purely fictional world which has its own unique physical properties and laws of nature. The time period is flexible and the story can be in the …
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