Rural fantasy is like urban fantasy
Nov 26, 2021 11:11 pm
Would you like a witch for a neighbor?
I'm still working on Kit Melbourne book ten, Wyvern's Curse, and having a good time with it. For those of you who finished Vampire's Pawn, you know that Kit and Fenwick buy a new house. If you haven't finished Vampire's Pawn, I suggest you read it before reading Wyvern's Curse unless you're okay with spoilers. Vampire's Pawn has a major plot development that sends the series on a new arc.
But I'm liking this new Kit. She's a lot more complicated than when she was an unencumbered 23-year-old woman too shy to confess her love for the guy she was into. Now she has to negotiate complex relationships, such as the relationships with her new neighbors.
Remember The Neverending Story? I loved that book as a child, especially the beautiful title caps and the red and green fonts telling you which world they were in. When the movie came out, I was so excited because back in the late 1900s, they didn't have film adaptations of every fantasy book under the sun. I remember being aghast that the beautiful luck dragon with a bell-like voice was a fuzzy white dog with a baritone. I cried anew with Atreyu in the swamp. I felt disappointed that my favorite scene (with the many-colored sands) wasn't in the movie.
As a young person, I had no problem with the scene where Bastian and Falkor terrorize his childhood bullies. It hits me differently as an adult. Children fantasize about power (and adults to, let's be fair) but when you get older, most realize that the power to terrorize children isn't even on your top ten list of "things I'd wish for." The raw power to hurt people is one with significant disadvantages. You don't have to terrorize many children before getting disinvited from the backyard barbecue.
Is it more important to cause harm, or to heal harm? I think both are important in balance. Would you rather have the power to curse people, or the power to undo curses? Would you kill people for black magic? Would you be friends with someone who did? Vampire's Pawn is the book where Kit really has to make a choice as to which side of the line she's on.
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A girl with a monster in her shadow. A warlock believed dead four years ago. A werewolf outcast from the London packs. And beneath their feet the plague dead of centuries stir in their graves, waiting for the spell that holds them to break. (Amazon)
Arariel has spent a century fighting her way up from foot soldier to Guardian Angel. Her peaceful existence comes crashing down around her when she is unsuspectingly exiled to Earth. She soon discovers that living among humans is well, quite like hell. (Amazon)
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Hades is terrified of humans, but somehow I don't count.
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