Jmsudar recommends the first book in Lloyd Alexander’s The Chronicles of Prydain, The Book of Three, to everyone. “Prydain occupies one of those wonderful corners of imagination, where there’s…a scope that makes a kingdom feel big but not so much that it stops being a fairytale, and a unique setting based on a country that’s more load-bearing to high fantasy than we tend to realize.”
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