Go you with your skills! I shall retaliate with a character journal because I'm too lazy to log out.
Yeah, Harp of Imach Thyssel I thiiiink I've read, but I honestly can't even remember for sure. Let alone any plot details. That whole series is like that. I love The Raven Ring, but just because in its predictable implausibility it has some stock characters I am a sucker for. I don't know if it's that she wrote her Generic High Fantasy stuff back when she was a newer writer -- which is how it reads to me, but I haven't checked copyright dates to back that up -- or if it's just that she's better with stuff either aimed at comedy or set in a not-quite-our-world. Because Mairelon's fun, Sorcery and Cecilia et al are fun (and, okay, collaborative), and of course the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, but some of the rest... yeah.
Maybe Elizabethan Fairy-Tale times counts too much as Generic Fantasy in terms of the number of tropes she has to lean on?
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because I'm too lazy to log out.Yeah, Harp of Imach Thyssel I thiiiink I've read, but I honestly can't even remember for sure. Let alone any plot details. That whole series is like that. I love The Raven Ring, but just because in its predictable implausibility it has some stock characters I am a sucker for. I don't know if it's that she wrote her Generic High Fantasy stuff back when she was a newer writer -- which is how it reads to me, but I haven't checked copyright dates to back that up -- or if it's just that she's better with stuff either aimed at comedy or set in a not-quite-our-world. Because Mairelon's fun, Sorcery and Cecilia et al are fun (and, okay, collaborative), and of course the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, but some of the rest... yeah.
Maybe Elizabethan Fairy-Tale times counts too much as Generic Fantasy in terms of the number of tropes she has to lean on?