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I love them!
My caveat, of course, is that I have mostly found them in high fantasy novels which is a genre I rarely if ever read these days. This means that I can’t really recommend recent stories that do this well as I am not familiar with the cream of the crop anymore.
Of the times I have read prologues or epilogues, I remember them feeling quite appropriate for the tone of their texts whether they was playful, serious, or read like a history textbook. (See also: J.R.R. Tolkien at times).
It would be interesting to see them used more often in other genres in lieu of writing sequels. Sometimes I finish a book and wish I could have just one more chapter about what the characters did after that final scene.
An entirely new novel about them would be too much, but a few to a dozen pages would be the perfect goodbye.
This could also be a way to soften that trend of dropping the reader straight into an action scene without telling us anything about the characters and plot in advance. Now don’t get me wrong. Sometimes that’s a great way to start things off, but it can also be a little to quite confusing if the conflict is a complex one or if you have five different characters whose names all start with the letter C or something.
A prologue could help ease reader’s confusion in cases such as that one.
Scents are an allergy, migraine, and headache trigger for me, so my first reaction to scented candles, along with any other scented item other than most types of food, is to run away from them as fast as my legs can carry me ;).
My answers are going to be for older books this week, and I’m trying to pick titles that I have not discussed in previous WWBC or Top Ten Tuesday posts as well. (Or at least haven’t discussed very much).
I believe we had this topic for a previous WWBC post, and my answers are probably going to be pretty similar this time around.
My bookish wishes are as follows:
Honestly, I’m a little picky about how blurbs and the first few pages of a tale are written and what is or isn’t included in them, but book covers themselves aren’t as important to me. There are many different styles I like or even love and only a few that would deter me from giving something a try.
This week’s list was much easier to come up with than the prompt from last month that asked us to list characters we want to meet.
Here are some characters I’d like to meet.
Occasionally, new books are released that are written in the form of poetry. That is to say, the entire story is told through one poem (or, more often, many different poems) that push the character and plot development forward.
A Man Called Ove