[ SECRET POST #2716 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2716 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - this is getting too obvious now, anon ].
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Re: Fantasy/Urban Fantasy Recsssss, please!

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Right, so it's a book trilogy called the Genesis of Shannara. In universe there was another series of stories called the Word & Void which are more urban fantasy than this but the main character is a man and while the first and third book also have a main protagonist in a woman (the same one), I have not actually read it. After the series I am about to describe there are more stories that are, for the most part, straight high fantasy, typically titled "X of Shannara." You don't really need to know anything about the other series to understand what is going on in this one.

Right, so the Genesis of Shannara by Terry Brooks, is set in a post-apocalypse, civilization collapsed U.S., specifically the Pacific Coast (mostly because the author lives there, in Washington). The world is this way because of wars, biological and chemical attacks, things like that. Not known to many people, things got like this because of the influence of demons(not the Christian kind) and their once-men (in the sense that they were/are corrupted human beings, not necessarily that they were specifically men), to which two of the main characters, both "Knights of the Word," endowed with magic staffs, who fight the demons. One is white man who has been fighting demons all his life (which is after a lot of bad things happened to the world) and his exploits, and a Latino woman, specifically having grown up in the L.A. barrio, and her actions trying to help save human compounds under attack by various demon armies. Also main characters are a group of wild kids in Seattle trying to survive a world with a lot of poisons and mutations (Fallout style), and the last remnants of Elves in the forest in their capital trying to survive, to get more into detail would probably be a bit spoiler-y. Starting towards the middle of the first book all four of these groups/characters begin to intermingle and help each other try to survive against the demons.

As for the checklist of the OP: No LGBT characters I can think of in any of this guy's series, but that might be because he primarily rights the series in a high fantasy setting. The female Knight main character is a Latino American (well "American" considering the setting), so there's that, and she kicks ass pretty independently, she never really needs help from anyone, except maybe once or twice when someone really has the upper hand on her in a fight. Most are adults, except for maybe the wild kids, but they are, for the most parts, teens, and all but maybe the youngest acts really kiddy, but they keep true to the seriousness of the life they lead. Perhaps a bit spoiler-y, but I'd say the ending of the trilogy is, for the most part, a happy ending, but I wouldn't exactly call it all sunshine and rainbows tier happy ending. Bonus in that the sort of motherly figure in the wild kids group is in a wheel chair, so there is that. For the most part all the other female characters I say are strong, although the ones that end up in relationships, that you actually see fully start, tend to be kinda lovey-dovey, though that's more or less because the author can't right a "on-screen" relationship to save his life; he's good at ones that are in progress or that are about to commence, but not the beginnings of one. I should also note that I'm never really sure if female characters are strong female characters, since it feels like every time I look the definition has changed in someway.

/I hope this essay hit the word limit
/This took me upwords of 20+ minutes to write

Re: Fantasy/Urban Fantasy Recsssss, please!

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Knew I forgot something. The books in the Genesis of Shannara are: Armageddon's Children, The Elves of Cintra, and The Gypsy Morph.

Re: Fantasy/Urban Fantasy Recsssss, please!

[(Anonymous)]

OP
Thank you, anon. I appreciate this. :)