tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6524216043125745761.post8196147429170425464..comments2023-10-05T05:42:39.584-04:00Comments on Notes from the Jovian frontier: On romance in fantasyblankenship.louisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541461775158369620noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6524216043125745761.post-49678458575366852612011-12-13T15:51:07.756-05:002011-12-13T15:51:07.756-05:00Recommendations:
Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson, ...Recommendations:<br /><br />Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson, has a wonderful sub-plot romance (so do Elantris and Warbreaker, come to think of it). <br /><br />The Redemption of Althalus by David Eddings, a stand-alone, has numerous romantic threads and is also excellent.<br /><br />There's also a well-done romantic sub-plot in The Desert of Souls by Howard Andrew Jones. I'm not sure how stringent your secondary-world criteria is: this is based on 8th century Baghdad.<br /><br />There's also a lot of great YA fairytale retellings, which tend to have a good mix of action/adventure in them, like Shannon Hale's Book of a Thousand Days or Levine's Ever After or Jessica Day George's Princess of the Midnight Ball.<br /><br />Umm, and Mary Robinette Kowal has a great kind of Jane-Austen-with-magic book called Shades of Milk and Honey, which probably doesn't meet your list, but I'll throw it out anyway.<br /><br />And now I'll be quiet. Can you tell I like recommending books to people? Hopefully some of these match your tastes; I found myself nodding my head during a lot of this post.MKHutchinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07715686902529938959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6524216043125745761.post-14406101966150351172011-12-13T13:00:33.530-05:002011-12-13T13:00:33.530-05:00This is an issue I'm dealing with in my curren...This is an issue I'm dealing with in my current WIP... how much is too much romance and how to treat it in a specfic context. You may want to take a look at Sara Creasy's Song of Scarabus. Ostensibly SciFi Adventure, but romance is a big part of the plot too...Bluestockinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01225973854788421827noreply@blogger.com