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Originally Posted by issybird
That's fair. I can only quote Whitman, "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)." 
I have no knowledge of Abercrombie and his First Law trilogy and thus can't comment, but in fact I've read all the GoT books. A friend pushed me to try them and since I'd got the first one back in the day when you could get first books in a series for free, I figured why not? I was sucked in and momentum kept me going, but my loathing increased over the course of the books, especially the fourth and fifth, and nothing could get me to read a sixth book now even if it fantastically appeared. But no, obviously not kidlit. So in parsing my comment, I think the silliness and contradictions inherent in bad fantasy at any rate and much good fantasy as well in that they just keep making it up makes it only suitable for kidlit for me. I think it boils down to the "recognizable world" I mentioned in my post. Fantasy, at least in my experience, tends to go off the rails.
Or, TL;DR: You got me! And, ugh, dragons. You lose me with dragons. |
The worst type of fantasy is the type where it's romance trying to disguise itself as fantasy. That type is absolutely dreadful.