狐笛のかなた Home Thread This is the home thread for 狐笛のかなた. While this book club isn’t part of the intermediate book club , that is the general demographic that I’m targeting in terms of difficulty and pace. There is only one book in this series. It’s written by the same author as 獣の奏者, which we enjoyed q…

[image] Naphthalene: I couldn’t :sob: I had the book for only two weeks, and then I forgot when things happened so I was afraid of spoiling people when posting in threads. I am mostly waiting for the post book discussion (but even then, things are getting a bit fuzzy in my memory). Oh, I see!…

[image] seanblue: Personally I tend to like fantasy like this. I even liked this book in the end, even if the middle was slow and the story a bit simplistic. Ah, it’s not the fantasy setting that bothers me - it’s more it being so simplistic… (will save more comments for the after-book-discus…

[image] NicoleIsEnough: Ah, it’s not the fantasy setting that bothers me - it’s more it being so simplistic… But maybe her other books are more like 獣の奏者! It would be interesting to read some fantasy targeted at adults rather than young teens, but I wonder how painful that might be. …

[image] seanblue: fantasy targeted at adults rather than young teens, but I wonder how painful that might be. “Painful” + “fantasy” makes me think of Lord of the Rings :rofl: I almost died during the intro, and I read it in GERMAN, mind you!

[image] seanblue: [image] NicoleIsEnough: Ah, it’s not the fantasy setting that bothers me - it’s more it being so simplistic… But maybe her other books are more like 獣の奏者! I, err, didn’t feel the book was more simplistic (or not) than 獣の奏者, though. In fact, I could pretty much use the…

I felt like 狐笛のかなた was almost a practice run for 獣の奏者. There are similarities for sure. I just felt like 獣の奏者 had more depth in terms of characters, story, and worldbuilding.

I feel like that’s just down to page count, though. With more pages, you can just scale the number of details (including the number of factions, give them additional goals/motivations, etc). It’s like looking at a more zoomed in (or zoomed out, depending on which book you take as reference) version …

For me, the book definitely lacks nuances. What I mean with this is that at least from (top-level) chapter 2 onward, one had a pretty good understanding of That (missing) aspect is what I personally would call “depth”, and that’s definitely not related to numbers of pages (i.e. length of narration)…

Well, also skipping straight to the post book discussion then :joy: (Not that I feel bad about it, since I was really waiting for that) [image] NicoleIsEnough: one had a pretty good understanding of I strongly disagree with that statement. [image] NicoleIsEnough: Apart from that, wha…

[image] Naphthalene: [image] Naphthalene: Ah, that one is really standard in (Japanese?) fantasy. I can totally understand that But if that’s standard, then that might explain it a bit better. [image] Naphthalene: I know how (鹿の王 spoiler) And that’s exactly my point: Given …

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seanblue June 11, 2021, 9:30pm 83

Well that’s all! I’ll put up some polls later in the week.

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