[ SECRET POST #5230 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5230 ⌋

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Comments

[chamonix]

This is about Shadow and Bone, isn't it

[(Anonymous)]

If it is, I hope no-one's holding that up as the epitome of originality. Even the author isn't!

[(Anonymous)]

That was my first thought, too.

[philstar22]

If that's the case, then in that specific example, no that isn't example of using real world culture for good worldbuilding. Not because of the lack or originality but because of the lack of good worldbuilding. The worldbuilding just isn't good or interesting, regardless of what it is based on.

[(Anonymous)]

OP

...partially? xD But there's a lot of other examples.

/I have also finished reading the Poppy War and I had a very strange experience with it, because her incorporations of veeery well-known real-life atrocities just made me feel like I had to reread a history lecture in the middle of a fantasy book. Not that it's a bad thing in itself and that the book isn't worth reading, but I wish it was slightly more re-worked so it wouldn't throw me out of the narrative into very specific real-life events..../