I want this book to succeed and I'm curious to see what the author puts out in the future, but I'm realizing I'm really a fantasy person (with a few allowances, of course). It's not the book, I promise, it's me.

I bore myself with with my very strict reading interests sometimes, to the point I'm surprised I even liked Memoirs of a Geisha, and wonder how I made it through a nonfiction biography of Jack the Ripper's victims (and found it interesting, to boot).

I can make it through middle-grade books that are less overtly fantasy just because of the whimsy and other unlikely events (Lemony Snicket's catalogue). So much of the TV I watch isn't fantasy; there's a remarkable lack of live-action TV, and I watch a lot of school/slice-of-life anime alongside fantasy. This is all just a rambling, thinking-out-loud musing on why I can only embrace the F in SFF when the SF has so much to offer. I love fantasy, it's actually my preferred genre across the board, but why can't I embrace more than that in books when I do it for tv? I'm weird. O_O