Seriously, I have not read a good fantasy book in a very long time. All right, I have not had much time to read fantasy books, but I have picked up a few recently, and I am appalled at the quality. Have my expectations gone up, or have the standards gone down? I was reading a book about a battle between the Greek and Atlantean gods, and the main character, who is an Atlantean god bound in human form, is basically the author’s wet dream. In his human state, he is helpless and is a prostitute. She has him whipped, castrated and basically puts him through more hell than I put my characters through, but here’s the twist–he’s not horribly scarred. No, he’s Artemis’ toyboy, and she simply just heals him after everything.
That’s not even the worst of it; the Atlantean and Greek gods say ‘okay’. That really puts me off the story. ‘Okay’ is American slang. It doesn’t belong in anything set before 1900, much less a time before Troy was destroyed. Honestly, is it just me who’s feeling that fantasy novels aren’t what they were?
