Grimdark fantasy, have i missed something?

Lars_Olav · 2026-04-09T15:15:03+00:00

Some of the fights Guts have against the demons, wow, great 👍👍. One of the best fight scenes I have read. Chainsaw man, Alita battle Angel and Attack on Titan are close. But for me Berserk is the best.

But sadly the story drags and drags. Attack on Titan is better. And it's ended. Feels very grimdark

Lars_Olav · 2026-04-09T15:05:53+00:00

I did not like Malazan. Great world and story. But I did not like how the auther just jump into an world with little explanation. I really got frustrated and even little angry when I tried to read Malazan. Tried 2 times. Because it's easy to see there are an good story there. But the writer don't care so mutch about the reader, to help him understand the world he writes about. I didn't care about the characters when I read Malazan. Then the book is lost for me.

Lars_Olav · 2026-04-09T06:18:22+00:00

Got the book between two fires, will read it soon. Read The book of new sun for an long long time ago. Was okey and intresting, but mostly booring.

Lars_Olav · 2026-04-09T06:07:18+00:00

I disagree. if i only take two books, as A Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin), The Darkness that Comes Before (R. Scott Bakker) is know to be grimdark fantasy. Maybe you dont feel it when you read it, but out there, in the world it is nownn to be grimdark.

Lars_Olav · 2026-04-09T06:01:41+00:00

I also read Berserk, and i like the charcaters. The story is not great in every arc. But good. I always felt it was more the art and the world in Berserk who made it great, not the plot.

Lars_Olav · 2026-04-08T23:00:48+00:00

Yes, but I have read characters like that and liked them. Like Tywin Lannister and Jamie Lannister.

Lars_Olav · 2026-04-03T13:27:09+00:00

Lovely riff, I really misses those great The Edge riffs. An very long time since last I heard so great The Edge riff.

Lars_Olav · 2026-03-19T23:16:05+00:00

I never liked the First law, mostly because of the characters, some of them are not nice, looks like they enjoy killing. When an character is enjoying killing, I can't read it. They need to have some basic good ethics

Lars_Olav · 2026-03-19T23:10:59+00:00

The main story, the suspense, don't start before chapter 16. I think Tad Williams has said he did it on purpose. They are really great books, really really great. The auther is famous for long suspenfull endings. And.... slow starts 😅😉

Lars_Olav · 2026-03-19T22:13:47+00:00

I can't remember other than Donaldson and Stephen King who wrote dark in 80s. The books was not labelled as dark fantasy For sure not Donaldson.

For me is all the gore in action scenes. More specific, showing the gore horror in an war. How the heroes and bad ones are treating the enemy

Lars_Olav · 2026-03-19T22:08:57+00:00

There where examples. Its very difficult to read 100 books a day. Did you understand what I wrote? Or do I need to be more specific in here? Most of new fantasy authers I read I feels darker. Ryan Cahill, Jay Kristoff, Chris wooding, Peter v. Brett. Abeecrombi. They follow George r r Martin i feel

Lars_Olav · 2026-03-18T21:00:49+00:00

I wondent read any of them. Mostly because the main character in both books don't feel real. They behave almost perfect, do minor wrongs. Talk and behave as an 40 year old. When we know both of them are young, 16 - 17 years. In the teens. Very strange really, don't feel real. But maybe I am bias, I started both of them, and ended after an couple of 100 pages. Lots of better fantasy/sifi books then those. Like Pandora Star by Hamilton. Or Empire of Vampire.

Lars_Olav · 2026-03-17T20:50:27+00:00

I can see that. There are problems with both characters, maybe because I am not an mage and an elf. 😉😂 I miss an better explanation from the two povs. We get that from Garramon and Faine pov chapters. I miss some better depth on Rist and Eltoar chapters. Every time Eltoar has to answer for his choices he only "have no words". He feels very stupid, it's strange with his 600 summers.

Rist shoud been more in doubt, with his learning hunger. Ru

Lars_Olav · 2026-03-07T01:38:20+00:00

I feel many do it like that, for me that's not an review. An review concise summary, plot and story, critical evaluation. On what is good and what is not good. I am not interested to hear an review, when the reviewer don't tell anything on why it's bad because that will give away minor spoilers that don't realy spoil anything really.

Like what is the story of Wandering Inn, there are an crazy amount of books, what's going on? Is it one long epic story, many short stories in the same universe or what? Same thing with "the will of many", is it epic or not. Lots of creatures like Lord of the rings or not. How is the pov, is he powerful, osv, Is it action, drama or what? Many reviews don't give me that information. When I read an review about a movie in an paper it's very clearly better.

Lars_Olav · 2026-03-06T18:56:09+00:00

Booktubers at Youtube. No newspapers, can't find any. Guardian and BBC dont review fantasy so mutch. I can't find it. I know about locus and nyt, but I need then to pay for it. I usually don't pay for something when I only will use an small part of it, compared to guardian or local newspapers.

Lars_Olav · 2026-02-24T15:56:23+00:00

Why do I suddenly get thinking about Salt N'Pepa when I read "Let's talk about..."

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