6/23/2023 0 Comments Ember and ash by pamela freeman![]() ![]() The answer’s more complicated than a simple yes or no.įreeman started in the business writing YA (young adult) fiction, a genre which is dreadfully under appreciated by many adults, and Blood Ties is her first foray into the world of adult fiction. Could Freeman really be tackling Epic Fantasy in a new way? The great advantage epic fantasy has is that it’s – epic like Tolkien, I wanted to try my hand a really long storyĬurious to see if Freeman could back up her words, I tossed Blood Ties into my backpack along with several other novels for the cross country journey. I am trying hard not to let that happen in the Castings Trilogy, but maybe that means I’m slowing the plot down…nothing’s simple. As a reader, I wasn’t getting a constantly renewed sense of wonder about the world, and since I read epic fantasy as least as much for the world as for the plot, I was getting bored.I kept wanting someone else to read the third book for me and just tell me what happened. I did a lot of reading in the genre for a doctorate, and I found that I was getting jaded, too – when I looked at why, I realised that a lot of secondary world writers were setting up the world and the magic in the first book, and then just letting the story/politics/war run to its conclusion, without revealing anything new. ![]()
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