fantasy

  • Rewind: a bookish round-up of books read in 2024

    Hello, hello. It’s December which means I can finally talk about the books I have read this year (50) and brag about them. As always, I did not want to do a usual round-up so I asked my trusty pal ChatGPT for some prompts.

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  • Reading tales: The Way of Kings

    If there is one thing I love about reading fantasy series, it is how immersive an experience it can be. Not only do you follow the same set of characters over three, four, seven, books, but you also get to travel through the land the fantastical tale lives in.

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  • Not a book review: A Meaningful Triumph

    I love fantasy. I think that’s a well-established fact, especially if you see my Netflix suggestions and the books I have read or added to my TBR. It pains me that there are so few fantasy readers and authors in India. So obviously I had to read and review Arsh’s ebook A Meaningful Triumph.

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  • Suchita’s tryst with fantasy

    I did not know I was a fantasy nerd until an interviewer pointed out to me that ‘you basically love fantasy’ because when she asked me to name my favourite books, I said Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.

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  • The Marionette

    The Marionette

    She knew it was a special occasion because the brilliant blue dress was coming out of the vintage trunk for airing. Laid out next to it were the blue jewels that went with the dress. And oh, the necklace fashioned in the image of the Hope diamond was also coming out! It must indeed be

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  • A zebra’s stripes

    A zebra’s stripes

    The world was young, fresh and full of untold adventures. God was still sending down birds, beasts, trees and anything he could think of as His two favourite sons frolicked in the new Eden. It was but seven days since the beginning of time when a curious looking four-legged creature walked onto the scene, braying

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  • The golden dragon

    The golden dragon

    Rhea had had enough. She was tired of all the taunts and jokes that children her age constantly subjected her to, tired of running home in tears, tired of seeing her parents helpless in the onslaught. She was sick of it all that at the tender age of ten, decided she wanted to die.

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