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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 9853982" data-attributes="member: 6787503">I've been continuing to read the fantasy novels of William Morris and, so far this year, have finished The Wood Beyond the World and Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair. TWBtW was surprisingly dark for the most part. After reading a few of his novels, I think Morris had some issues with pacing. The action gets kind of bogged down in the love triangle (quadrangle?) at the center of the story but then is resolved perhaps a little too easily and without the protagonist's direct involvement except through violence. The way the novel ended was also surprisingly light-hearted, but the fantasy elements were interesting, especially the scary dwarf. This was probably the most fantastic of all Morris's novels I've read so far.CCaGtF isn't really much of a fantasy, although it seems to get classified as such. It's more of an adventure tale. Like Morris's other novels, the resolution seems to be on easy mode for the protagonist who comes off as someone who does everything perfectly and for whom circumstances deliver success.Now I'm off to read The Well at the World's End. </blockquote>