Fiction: have I got some books for you

[rivkat]

Comments

[justabi]

Oooh, I love Carey! (The French/fantasy/pain-slave thing did appeal to me.) But I'm totally excited to read new things! Yay!

[ladyagnew]

Thanks for the rec; have just reserved the first book from my local library.

[technocracygirl]

Here via coffeeandink. Yes, yes, yes. I cannot disagree with a single thing you've said. These books should be required reading after reading too many Tolkein-esque quest sagas. Carey did something wonderful with the old tropes, and it's only a mystery why it's only been done a few times before. (Evil By Necessity -- much more humorous than The Sundering, but with the same (and still effective) trope reversal. Though EbN is more of a D&D ripoff than Sundering's Tolkein.)

[rivkat]

I missed Evil by Necessity but will go look for it right now. Thanks!

*nod nod*

[thucyken]

On the subject of revisioning from the bad guy's point of view- have yoyu read Janny Wurts' Mistwraith series? Although very, very extremely long, she plays with the concept of good and evil in a high fantasy universe very nicely.

Re: *nod nod*

[rivkat]

I haven't read those, but I will keep an eye out. Thanks!