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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9603837" data-attributes="member: 18">I dunno if Goodreads nominations are very representative of what people are actually reading, I feel like they get gamed quite a lot, but I'd definitely agree that people like Sanderson, Maas, Bardugo and so on are pretty clearly getting read quite a lot.Maas is interesting because whilst her most successful books are pretty MoR "teenage assassin" romantasy (the first one is basically "teenage assassin Twilight"), they inexplicably keep getting banned by school districts in the US, which I can only believe is happening solely because they're so popular, because there sure isn't anything remarkable in the first book apart from a franker and more realistic depiction of exercise and period cycles than is common in fiction (which probably helps make the protag more relatable to a lot of the readers).There's definitely a lot of that selling pretty well, often but not always intersecting with YA stuff.I was actually kind of blown away by one of T. Kingfisher's books (which do not intersect with YA, indeed the audience is probably 30+), which was totally a romance novel that happened to have a fantasy setting but what a good setting! What good characters! Oh they're making out again! Tell me more about the berserker paladins!Right?Literally the next Doom game is called Doom: The Dark Ages, and seems to be heavily over-the-top quasi-medieval fantasy themed, even![MEDIA=youtube]4tk8lkmYGWQ[/MEDIA](Personally I think this should be the direction for a revived Quake 1 not Doom but I'm not running id software so who cares what I think!)</blockquote>

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