Daher erfreut sich diese Buchreihe in letzter Zeit großer Beliebtheit.
Im Grunde entnimmt der Autor die Hälfte der Handlung der irischen Mythologie, benennt sie in „prythische“ Mythologie um und kehrt gleichzeitig die Dynamik des Kolonismus um.
Sie macht sich nicht einmal die Mühe, die Welt aufzubauen, sie zieht einfach die Mythologie, die ihr gefällt. Zu den Hauptelementen der Handlung gehören „Dagda“, „Der Kessel“, „The Morrígan“ und „Fionnbharr“.
„Hybern“, die Insel mit Sitz in Irland (Hiberna), wird von einem bösen König regiert, der alle Menschen (von „prythian“) auf Hybern versklavt und tötet.
Viele Leute scheinen nur zu sagen: „Oh, es ist Fantasie, es ist nicht real.“ Und die Autorin hat mehrfach gesagt, dass sie nicht antiirisch ist.
Selbst wenn es eine Fantasie ist, Menschen von einer Insel vor Irland zu feindlichen Monstern zu machen, die Menschen von der Insel vor Großbritannien hassen, scheint das eine sehr antiirische Vorgehensweise zu sein.
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Von voidcharmed
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It’s an excuse to write smut is all it is
Never heard of it but definitely seems like they’re at it again. Painfully obvious.
Just googled her. American. Checks out.
Pathetic honestly to take any offense over fiction, and in particular a fantasy / romance set in an alternate history. If you don’t like it read something else.
God it sounds tripe.
Every fantasy author draws on some other countries’ legends. Look at the amount of Norses inspired works, look at a song of ice and fire. The chip in your shoulder seems a bit ott given what the work actually is
Meh. It has clear fanfiction vibes. It is what it is, and its not trying to be anything different imo. Not like most other stuff isn’t also just a mash up of fantasy elements. As you said, Its not even really concealed.
My main criticism of it is that the first book was pretty tame, and then the smut ramped way up. The first book is fine for the young adult section, but after that its a bit dodgy. Its always a bit awkward seeing the whole series shelved there in the library or whatever. I feel like a few people were probably not aware it ramped up like that.
It’s not Moanin‘ Monday already, is it?!
Read the first one out of curiosity, won’t be reading any more.
Tried reading it once for light entertainment and it wasn’t my cup of tea. Couldn’t finish it and I found the smut kind of boring. Just read ao3. It appears to be a ramshackle of Irish, Scottish and Welsh mythos for the aesthetic.
Also stepping aside from the historical political angle , it’s not really well thought out. It’s the whole completrly evil nation who have to be defeated and the logistics of island nation somehow being a consistent military threat without gaining land/resource doesn’t make a tack of sense. I also don’t accept that it’s YA as of that’s an excuse for bad world building.
Jesus, its a book. Calm down.
I mean, it’s just bad writing, before you even get into the specifics of the plot
You should try The Gael Song trilogy by Shauna Lawless. It’s set in medieval Ireland blending Irish mythology with historical fiction. 100% respect for Ireland and 0% smut.
There are certainly a lot of examples of this in (lower quality) fantasy novels, especially ones for kids. This is by far the worst example.
Racist gonna be racist tbh.
Yeah her books are very unpopular to put it kindly over on r/fantasy
It’s the type of book I would write after feeling inspired by George RR Martins creative process but then I get bored after 1 day
I gave this ago. The laziness and racism aside, it’s absolute dogshit.
It’s like something a 13 would attempt after reading a decent fantasy series.
It must be terrible dealing with people who like you and your whole country.
At the very least, Tolkien dedicated his life to linguistics and treated mythology with the respect it deserved.
It looks as though this author simply wanted to strip-mine The Lord of the Rings for parts – swipe a mythology and put in a fraction of the effort just to cash in on the ‚high fantasy based on old stories‘ trend
I could be wrong, since I haven’t read it, but it looks like Tolkien if he’d spent six weeks on his work instead of thirty years