Hello guys! I hope your Saturday is going amazingly well!
SO I just had a brainwave.
I’m going to start doing a series of posts called ‘Why I Love…’ which is where I’m just going to talk about why I love a certain topic. These aren’t going to be restricted to book genres, I’m also going to be book characters, authors and stuff like ‘Why I Love UK YA books’. These posts are going to be sporadic unlike my other blog post series so I could do this once every two months or three times a month, it just depends really.
Anyway, enough blabbering, lets get on to the loving.
Fantasy
A good fantasy book will transport you to another world, one that you would of never experienced before, one where it’s probably guaranteed that you wouldn’t last a week, but you don’t care because that week would be the best week ever.Sometimes people need a break from reality and a fantasy book is the perfect escape route to have a breather away from the stress of just being human.
I love fantasy because it is limitless! Reading a fantasy book is so fun and enjoyable because the plot can really twist and change. It’s like sliding down a curvy slide blindfolded and not knowing if your going to turn right or left. The possibilities especially in a high fantasy book at the beginning are endless. That feeling of anything could happen can bring other feelings of wonder and curiosity and when you are wanting to know more about a fantasy world and all of the ins and outs of everything is when you know you have a good fantasy book.
Reading fantasy just makes me want to explore my imagination to the extreme. Especially for me as a writer, after reading fantasy I want to write down loads, I want to venture into my creative depths to see what I pull out.While reading fantasy the impossible becomes possible and that touch of magic there is what makes me fall in love with the genre again and again and again. Fantasy isn’t bound by laws, physics and fact. It’s free and that freedom can only be a good thing while reading.
Do you love fantasy? If so why and if you don’t, why? Let’s get a conversation going!
I’ll write soon!
-Astra
A Stranger's Guide To Novels 
Yes!!! I love it for all the reasons you listed above but most of all because it transports me to a place I wouldn’t have dreamed of and also because there’s magic. I’ve yet to read a fantasy novel that doesn’t have magic (I think) and I wonder if I’ll like it when I do because the magic is why I love the genre.
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YASSS! I mean all good book will transport you but fantasy TRANSPORTS YOU! I think everyone has wished for magic at one point which makes people love fantasy more I think. I think magic will always crop up in a fantasy novel, one way or another.
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I love how fantasy just carries that essence of creativity and imagination, which as well inspires me also to write, and create. Like you said, It is limitless, and because of that they’re usually so original you don’t really get a lot of similarities between books. Great post!
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Whenever I read a fantasy, I always want to write because as you said, it’s so inspiring!
You’re definitely right about each book not being a carbon copy of the one before.
Thank you!
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I love this little love letter to fantasy and how it inspires you as a person and writer to be more creative and imaginative as well! I can most definitely see where you are coming from with this! Great post!
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Aww thank you Kat! It was surprisingly therapeutic kind of to write, getting deep down to why I like Fantasy. Again thanks!
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I love how fantasy offers a perspective into a very different world. Great post! 🙂
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That is a very true point 🙂
Thank you!
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I completely agree with you about how reading fantasy makes you want to explore more as a writer. Whenever I’m stuck with writing, reading seems to be the best solution. Fantasy is amazing! ❤
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Definitely! Because fantasy is limitless, your creativity can be too while writing! Yep, fantasy is fantastic XD
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I love fantasy too! I’m writing one right now. I like fantasy because you get transported to another world and it just sucks you in. I read a lot of fantasy, I’m trying to branch out little by little.
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I’m writing fantasy too! Fantasy is so boundless that I had to write one!
After reading a lot of fantasy I have to pick up a contemporary as it’s normally lighter and quicker to get through.
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I pretty much only read fantasy. It’s fun! I don’t really want to read about things that can happen in reality because the whole point of reading was to escape my reality, at least it is for me 🙂
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When it comes to fiction, reading is definitely about escaping to another world! And in that other world so many things are possible which makes it so enjoyable to read.
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