fantasy

Hi!

I’m looking for books about mages, wizards and witches in which the magic itself is a central part of the story and not just there so the MC can slam a fireball into the face of his foes.
Maybe the magic has a will of its own or the MC is trying to ‘restore’ it from some kind of ‘disease’ or something else.

Your “To Be Read” list, that is. Tell us what’s near the top or share the whole thing if you like. I’m nosy and like seeing what books people are excited about.

I really enjoy the idea of world building of high fantasy: A completely foreign place, not tied to anything like earth. I also like that the norms of current social structure can be completely turned on its head.

But what I struggle with is: a lot of popular high fantasy turns into an epic, super high stakes tale of how the world almost ended. I think that is something I’ve either seen too much of, or something that just takes away from other potential interesting stories that could come out of a different world.

So instead, I am looking for books where the protagonist explores/adventures through the foreign world discovering people and places within it. But there the challenges or conflicts the characters go through are personal and more relatable.

Does anyone share similar frustrations? Does anyone have any suggestions for books that I might enjoy?

Hello everyone,

I haven’t been that active in that community, it probably deserves better.

There are a few questions that should probably be asked:

1. Should we move the community to another instance?

As some of you may know, .ml is a polarizing instance (the reasons why are beyond the scope of this post, but feel free to have a look at lemm.ee/post/53735049 for instance). I’ve seen quite a few people blocking .ml in their settings, so any community hosted here could suffer from that.

2. What potential instances could we move this community to?

There are a few that come to mind

literature.cafe is an instance related to literature and reading, so would fit the topic
lemm.ee is my general recommendation for generalists instances (Lemmy.world already centralizes a lot of the communities, some decisions they make tend to impact all of them, such as this one: lemmy.world/post/24135976)

If you have any other you would like to suggest, feel free.

3. Would a potential migration have an impact?

This community isn’t that active to begin with, so if have a pinned post here about the new community, lock it, and promote it on a few other places, that should be enough.

Other mods?

If someone wants to jump in as a mod, feel free! I’m the only one left (the two others mods accounts have been deleted), and having other people would probably help.

That’s it for now, see you in the comments!