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Spindle's End
by Robin McKinley
Hey friends! Do you want a book with fairies and magic that doesn't follow the standard formulaic plot? Here ya go.
World building, but easy to read and not info-dumpy. Chatty but not annoying or distracting. Spans a significant amount of time but doesn't get bogged down. Magic has rules but the story also doesn't bother to explain all the rules and lets the magic be magic, not science. Follows the well known fairytale closely enough to make you feel comfortable, but expands, elaborates and rearranges in a way that is so right and natural. Romance but not instalove, instalust, or physical-description-based attraction. No cheap betrayals. No self-insertion characters.
In short, this is what everybody who read ACOTAR and felt annoyed after should give a shot at.
Also, I freakin' CRIED before page 40 and I don't usually cry at books!
The rare fantasy I enjoyed.
World building, but easy to read and not info-dumpy. Chatty but not annoying or distracting. Spans a significant amount of time but doesn't get bogged down. Magic has rules but the story also doesn't bother to explain all the rules and lets the magic be magic, not science. Follows the well known fairytale closely enough to make you feel comfortable, but expands, elaborates and rearranges in a way that is so right and natural. Romance but not instalove, instalust, or physical-description-based attraction. No cheap betrayals. No self-insertion characters.
In short, this is what everybody who read ACOTAR and felt annoyed after should give a shot at.
Also, I freakin' CRIED before page 40 and I don't usually cry at books!
The rare fantasy I enjoyed.