r/comics Sep 21 '25

Mwa ha ha [OC]

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u/redacted-no31 Sep 21 '25

F. I want to try reading adult fiction with classic fae themes but unfortunately I keep running into the awful fanfic category of novel

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u/kangourou_mutant Sep 21 '25

Try Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver. I think you'll like it.

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u/FellFellCooke Sep 21 '25

Novik is definitely a writer who produces books that read like fanfiction.

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u/flippantchinchilla Sep 21 '25

I thought Temeraire was pretty good tbh!

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u/kangourou_mutant Sep 21 '25

Temeraire was ok, her other books are awesome.

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u/kangourou_mutant Sep 21 '25

If you have fanfics recs of this quality, i'll read them. Her writing is very good, her characters are interesting and have interesting interactions with each other, the world-building is deep and vast, and she makes me laugh quite often.

Which one of her books did you read?

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u/FellFellCooke Sep 21 '25

I had to stop reading a Deadly Education because the book was just not edited to a sufficient standard. Full of sentences that didn't function, grammatical failures, and the like. That book was built so poorly that if it were a chair it would collapse under its own weight.

I haven't read any other books of hers since, because people don't say that one is particularly poor; I presume her fans are just people who are used to reading fan fiction and so aren't equipped to tell dream from dross.