[ SECRET POST #7042 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7042 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The one thing I always see people recommending as an alternative to Harry Potter is A Wizard of Earthsea.

Which is good, but very different. People recommend it because it also involves a boy training to be a wizard. But Earthsea is high fantasy and that isn't everyone's thing.

I also see it compared to The Worst Witch. I read the Worst Witch when I was a kid obsessed with Harry Potter and had read the HP books that were out at that time too many times to just want to reread them again. The Worst Witch is good, but obviously written for a much younger audience. I wouldn't recommend it to teenagers.

Then there's Charlie Bone which has some appealing aspects, but also some frustrating ones. Unlike HP they aren't mysteries (only one thing is left unsolved for a while, and it's the identity of Charlie's father - which is extremely obvious to the reader if they're paying attention). And there are things I wished the author went into more depth about - what Henry was doing after being adopted by his little brother and living in the future, the living evil relatives who really don't get much time except for when one of them pretends to be a child. The other magical families in general. I really wanted to like it but the author could have done so much more with the things she came up with.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT - Wanted to comment on:


Which is good, but very different. People recommend it because it also involves a boy training to be a wizard. But Earthsea is high fantasy and that isn't everyone's thing.

That's my quibble with a lot of proposed alternatives. I think urban fantasies are better for former HP fans. Coming from an urban fantasy fan myself. We like the blend of our world and the fantasy. Which isn't to say you can't like both, I just think people miss one of the big appeals of Harry Potter.

[(Anonymous)]

The same I think when people name a "better" alternative for HP, they ignore or forget that is not a YA or urban fantasies LIKE Harry Potter, of course they might enjoy it or not.

[(Anonymous)]

I like high fantasy more than urban fantasy, but Earthsea was sooooo boring. And Harry Potter is only urban fantasy in the sense that it technically takes place in the "real world." It's a lot more like high fantasy in that the Wizarding world is so removed from everything that it often feels more like it's set in an actual separate fantasy world.