Compared to other High-Fantasy, there is lesser action, many character scenes, introspective and dialogues and yet as much suspense as in a horror novCompared to other High-Fantasy, there is lesser action, many character scenes, introspective and dialogues and yet as much suspense as in a horror novel.
It must have taken the author much time to find such original characters and to combine them in a way that gives new perspectives and potentials for the fantasy genre. It seems to me as if, as with many newer great High-Fantasy series, that there is nothing healthier for a genre than to become unconventional, progressive and well, yes, pretty dark and filthy too.
Take for instance Game of Thrones, The Warded Man, Malazan Books of the Fallen, Brandon Sanderson, etc. that have all redefined the Fantasy genre in new, mostly darker ways.
Hardly ever the villain has been described in so much detail and so close that he gets sympathetic in a strange way and the other characters certainly aren´t likeable too, but boy how interesting their deficits make them in the eye of the reader. All this together makes it closer to real life and less unrealistic than those superhuman, always good never evil, standard tropes from the past.
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