I’ve been reading a few different fantasies lately where honor is a big deal and I need to vent for a second about why this actually drives me crazy. No shame if that’s what you like! But I still need to vent. Yes sometimes you get a badass like Kaliden who uses honor to help people and become a better person. But more often you get someone like Ned Stark of GOT who mostly uses it to justify high risk political stupidity or Dalinar who uses honor through the whole series to justify what ever cruelty he wants from actual war crimes (yes even post blackthorn) to punishing anyone who’s different/ disagrees with him to the point of alienating everyone in his family and his spren at various points. And then because all of it was for an arbitrary honor code the character somehow gets praised by people both in world and readers no matter how unfair they were. I just don’t get it 😅

Hello fellow book lovers, I am looking for recommendation for a good book from N.K. Jemisin to start with. I have never read any of the work and I dont know where to start.

I generally dont read fantasy that much, but lately with all going on in the world I feel the need to escape. So if you have any other fantasy recommendations that are feminist, anti-capitalist/colonialist, Ill be happy to hear them!

Thanks!❤️

I’m really happy to see that others make as many spelling mistakes or typos or other grammatical errors here on Pagebound as I do, and no one gets called out. We just seem to mostly type and chat and carry on. (Admittedly, i often do go back and correct some of those mistakes…because my perfectionistic tendencies override good sense.) All in all, I think we’ve struck a reasonable balance.

Thoughts?

Hey everyone I’m trying to figure out two books to get my mom for Christmas but I’m struggling to find smth she’d like so please let me know if you have any ideas for books that fall under that criteria!!

• she really likes those cheesy Hallmark movies so maybe smth like that?
• fictional books based on South Asian mythology bonus points if there’s a feminist perspective (think Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel)
• honestly anything that’s very wholesome and has a happy ending
• NO SMUT AT ALL PLS LOL

Thanks everyone!

OK, I was vibing with this book until we got to the aliens. Like I don’t know why but this is taking me out the story so bad. I think it’s just because I want a purely fantasy political story. And I know that on the blurb, it says that they’re gonna run into an alien race. I just didn’t thought or think it was going to look like or sound like this. I don’t know.