If you raised in Texas. Your Texan period

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Yee-haw!

As both a Texan and a fan of Brandon Sanderson, this does appeal to me. Great discussion! :)

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

Howdy!

As a non-American, I had no frame of reference for how good the ‘Texas-y bits’ of the novel were, but it’s good to hear that the state was done justice! I kept wondering if Wade or Zeff were stereotypical (Zeff in particular seems like he should have been in a spaghetti Western), but it seems the authors did their research, which is always good to know. Maybe the Bluebell thing was intentional; the original series dances around the Superman symbol but can never overtly mention it due to rights. So who knows what that carton of vanilla bean held! Though I have to ask, how did you find the accents?

I think it would be cool to have the Loki superpower where I can project myself in other places so that I don’t actually have to be where I’m supposed to. I can just chill at home and read.

@alicialaux428

2 жыл бұрын

Also would love to communicate with my cats. I think I may have become a stereotype.

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

I'm assuming then that your weakness would be socializing? Any time you're forced to be around people, your life force slowly drains?

Ooh that dig on urban fantasy hurts me at my core. I love it so much. But I do agree with you that Sanderson YA feels different from his adult stuff. I remember I was about halfway through Way of Kings before I finally realized that this was the same author as the Reckoners series that I had read previously, and I was shocked. I don't think that Reckoners is _worse_ than his adult stuff, but just that it caters to a different audience. It's much more goofy and quippy, fast paced. I also had a hard time with world-immersion in the Reckoners series, but I feel like that's less about being urban fantasy and more about that way it positioned itself within the genre. The Reckoners is being a dystopian novel that is a reply to the superhero tropes and genre. Therefore, moments in the series (like a Snickers bar or something like that) were used to illustrate how the world is different/more dystopian than ours, not just as normal things. You can't just have a candy bar without someone reminding you how scarce they are, etc. So, references to our normal world are caused to be much bigger than they otherwise would be, which can make them extra annoying.

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

As a fan of the genre, do you have any good recommendations of urban fantasy that's done extremely well?

@ChloeFrizzle

2 жыл бұрын

@@DragonArmyBooks for a pulp detective kind of vibe, I would recommend Dresden Files. For a teen adventure story: Raven Boys.

LOL , The Rithmatist, the only book you have talked about that I think we completely disagree on, I have read the reckoners but not this one

@DragonArmyBooks

2 жыл бұрын

No need to rush it up to the top of your TBR!