Meh. Another one that was good, but not great for my tastes.There's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams. Sweeping, vivid world-building, multiple storylines. And he's finally started releasing the follow-up.
Brandon Sanderson and his Cosmere comes to mind. But I'm not sure anything close to Pottermania or GoTmania will happen any time soon. One of the reasons why they were so popular was because they moved from books to cinemas and TVs.
Harry Potter is an awesome storyline too, and great lore in its own world, but it was geared to teens and pre-teens and there are HEAPS of those in the world lol.
As I stated up thread,the current big name among teen and pre-teen is Rick Riordan.
Yep, and I was just saying that HP was popular before the big screen for those reasons.
Is Rick Riordan any good?
And yet the musical is doing much better and more popular.....and like any sensible (ha ha) fandom we don't talk about the movies and instead choose to focus on the musical, the countless petitions for someone to make it a tv show. I should also note that other than the movies being based on his books Uncle Rick had nothing to do with the movies.we already have 2 Rick Riordan movies and they are awful. Percy Jackson.
At one point I thought I was Patrick Rothfuss but i'm wondering who shows up as the next bestseller. Who gets marketed like harry Potter and Game of Thrones?
I didn't discover GOT until book 2 was first released and obviously Potter was big before the movies. People ran to the stores for new potter books especially last 2 in the harry series. Game of thrones I preordered and ordered 1 from England as I didn't want to wait for the US version
Some of you will say "never cared for GOT" etc but it was pushed to the front of bookstores so who just started a series that gets this attention