Em’s Comments (group member since Aug 30, 2024)

Em’s comments from the where dreams become true group.

Mark Lawrence wrote Red Sister, Grey Sister & Holy Sister all set in the world of Abeth. Then in his next trilogy prequel set in this world (The Girl and the Stars, The Girl and the Mountain, The Girl and the Moon) you suddenly realize that everything you thought was "fantasy"--every fantastical element from the first trilogy--is actually science fiction from a very advanced society which has since died out too long ago for the people of Abeth to remember the science. So instead it only survives ideologically as "magic."

This just blew my mind. I was in absolute shock. Those 6 books are absolutely incredible fantasies btw. I strongly recommend them all. Mark Lawrence is a genius.

Has everyone here already read the portal fantasy the Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire?

It's basically 9 novellas, each one is 100-200 pages long. And it's written for adults, not children, but that's mainly because the vocabulary level is at least 11th grade. It's very intelligently written.

These are my favorite fantasy books by far. I have read all of them at least five times--they are like candy to me. Each one is about a different world.

Also, the books Red Sister, Grey Sister, and Holy Sister by Mark Lawrence are amazing. The titles are--Idk, from the titles I didn't think I would like them. But then, as soon as you start you can't stop. They are about an orphan girl who slowly discovers her own heroism--so it's basically the heroes journey but via a girl who goes to a girls school to train. They are extremely addictive.

Then, thirdly, I am obsessed with The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon. It's set in an alternate world in which people have awakened to their psychic abilities.

Hi, I'm Em--not at all sure what this group is exactly, but I love the fantasy genre, especially books by authors who truly know & apply traditional Fae lore. I have collected hundreds of Fae legends from the 1800's and adore that mythology, so reading well written urban fantasy on the Fae is my favorite thing to do. I grew up on Charles de Lint books.