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Read Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones (of Howl's Moving Castle fame), which is the first of the Chrestomanci books, set in an alternate...

“The Brief but Heartfelt Disagreement Between Land and Sea, Mostly Involving Lots of Meetings, Some Explosive Violence, and the...

My fourth book of the week is Failed State by Sam Freedman, which is an absolutely outstanding analysis of the entrenched and worsening...

I see. I guess I'm kind of the opposite way, I really don't like lickspittle/fainting/damsel-type female characters in cis-hetero stuff...

Maybe they don’t have the budget to do it justice.

Oh, yeah, there is a whole toxic dsndom corner that despises them. I have never known a women who the books to be in that number, it's a...

Wait people hate Nynaeve and Egwaene? I had no idea. I guess both of them can be wet blankets at times but honestly a lot of the...

It's Little Trouble in Big Absalom, which is still available for free on Drivethru Little Trouble in Big Absalom There's also...

I first read Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling 40 years ago - we somehow had a great edition with the original drawings and I loved...

It’d have been great to see Miyazaki tackle it.

I think that the series that’s been made into a bad film which would really benefit from being made into anime is Philip Reeve’s Mortal...

I've been saying this for years too but yeah @Retros_x explains with words what I only had as a vague instinct. I think there are...

That is a very good and timely suggestion, thank you.

Or for $5 from the same bundle, you get the Beginner Box, Player Core, GM Core, GM screen, one scenario and 5 flip mats. All pdf of...

Yes, the comparison is apt and IMO only gets more so - not just the harem anime but the tortured overpowered protagonist anime.