Fantasy; a new love?
Good morning!
You may look at this and think; «What? I thought you were not into the fantasy reading !!», which is true, but lately i’ve found myself loving the fantasy genre i’ve been having two review requests for and *gasp* both of them were part of a serie !! So how about we talk a little more about thoses 🙂
First and foremost, I should explain why i’ve been kind of avoiding them, shouldn’t I?
It’s not because of the genre in itself, but rather because of me. Now, i’ve already talked about this, but after 2014 my brain «developped» deeper anxiety and depression. This event has a huge negative impact on my reading; i’m one to not wanna read further if the novel do not make me slip into that world and forget the earth is turning, which sadly was really hard to do anymore. Thoses two mental illnesses are also tend to go with concentration issue, which of course I had also, and didn’t made it too easy for me to concentrate enough on the words on my pages to be able to slip away to their reality.
Back when I was a child, i was one to read alot and went to summer “camps” at my local library where mom would drop me at maybe 9am and come pick me up at 5pm everyday. We would do activities and if there was remaining time, we could read. Upon the inscription, we had a little booklet with our goal of how many we wanted to read; which then we would record which book we did read inside that booklet. I was always way beyond that goal ahah! Fast forward to high school, I always had a book in hand to read after tests and such; and for the first two years of it, I would spend my diner time at the school’s library (as I was alone anyway – what better to do then?).
As you would probably guess, it was hard for me to cope with how my reading had been affected by my own brain. It took me a while to accept that it changed, and felt alot of fear that I would actually lose it and stop. It was something passed to me by my most favorite person in the world, my godmother ! How was I suppose to let it slip away?? So I hang onto it as hard as I could, and somewhere in summer 2017 I decided to start a bookish tumblr! I didn’t do much of it, but moved onto wordpress in November – and my reading really increased alot from last year already, which I am so pleased!! ❤️❤️
Now back to fantasy, I purposely didn’t wanted anything even close to that from my fail attempt at reading «the night circus» by Erin Morgenstern, which I ended up DNFing as the world building was too complicated for me to imagine and I got lost in the many POV of the story, to where I didn’t knew what was even happening! 🙈
Perks of having a book blog however, I got approach by two lovely author to ask me if I would kindly like to review their book ; «Heavenward» and «The gilded king». To thoses two authors, thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Knowing it was fantasy, and how my brain wasn’t liking them too much, I was a bit scared. The synopsis looked SO. GOOD. However that I decided ahh why not, let’s give it a shot regardless. And surely enough, both ended up a 5stars read ! To the point where i’m kinda tempted to go reach for more 😘
- It did gave me more of a hard time than my usual genres, needing me to be slower and sometimes reread a sentence two or maybe three times to really understand though, but this is why I read in the middle of the night!
- I felt some new sensations while reading!! Next thing I knew, my heart was racing and I would at times hold my breath when characters were facing a difficult or dangerous situation
- More blogging ideas!! Ahaha every time I would stop reading, my head would be bubbling and my little “spinning weels” working so much I did write a whole post in my notebook. Twice.
Are you a fantasy reader ?
What’s your favorite “trope” ?
Any recommendation on which I should read/look into ?