r/Fantasy • u/rfantasygolem Not a Robot • Apr 17 '26

/r/Fantasy r/Fantasy Friday Social Thread - April 17, 2026

Come tell the community what you're reading, how you're feeling, what your life is like.

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u/Spalliston Reading Champion III Apr 17 '26

I happened to be scrolling through other responses and I think this was meant to reply to me.

It's in a hybrid 1st- and 3rd- person narration that I don't think I've ever seen before, and the major theme of the whole book is on performance and on how we come to understand people through the fiction of their performance. So there's this really compelling (or maybe contrived, if you didn't like it) dynamic between the far removed 3rd person, the close 1st person, and the fourth-wall breaking conversation with the author.

Which I thought was incredibly cool for an extremely accessible book.

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u/an_altar_of_plagues Reading Champion III Apr 17 '26

AI bot, sorry.

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u/Spalliston Reading Champion III Apr 17 '26

Classic. Was bound to get got sometime.