It’s just a fact of life that the main character gets certain perks in life that other (more deserving people) don’t get. The MC can often speak directly with people many tiers above their station (diamond rankers, kings, gods –…
Last month, I got onto such a The Primal Hunter kick. I listened to books 5-8 on Audible. Then I read book 9 on Amazon Kindle. I couldn’t get enough. I wanted to know what happened to certain characters. So…
I try to look at these stories from the author’s point of view sometimes. Imagine you have a character, let’s call him Jake. And Jake is overpowered. You could write a story covering Jake’s ascension from Level 1 to Level…
I guess I alluded to these things earlier. I hate when the adults in a book are the incompetent ones and the kids are left to solve the problems. That’s illogical to me. I hate when the main character has…
Do you remember the Lord of the Rings movies? Little Frodo has been told to take this evil ring across the continent, and drop it in the fires of Mordor to destroy it. He goes on a grand adventure, lasting…
Sometimes, in book 1 of a series, the author will take time to explain how the economics of a world works in great detail. 1 Iron coin is 10 Bronze coins, 10 Bronze coins is 1 Silver coin, etc. And…
One thing that bothers me when I read it is when a group of kids or young adults are investigating some strange event that is deeply important to the future of all life on the planet. They discover something, and…
Fantasy books take place in a fantasy world, and so there has to be some suspension of disbelief to enjoy the genre. But when an MC performs a task or survives a fight in an impossible way, that breaks the…
I’m currently reading a great series (Defiance of the Fall) that unfortunately uses one of my least favorite tropes in Fantasy often: the helpless female slave. To be sure, not all of them are “slaves”, technically. Just women and girls…