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Originally Posted by DaFace
With the Stark family getting the party back together, has it occurred to anyone else that this ended up being a brilliantly-cloaked, pretty standard trope fantasy?
A bunch of young kids lose their parents. They go out into the world, get split up by the bad guys, gain a bunch of crazy new skills, and end up saving the world.
Not complaining. It's actually kind of impressive.
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I think what sets this series apart from others in this genre is how rich and full the rest of the world they are set in is. In most series there is only a singular, albeit super powerful, baddie while in this one we have several villains with varying degrees of ability to mess things up for our intrepid heroes.
Not only are there a large number of baddies but they are all extremely well constructed and each with a real possibility of assuming power over the whole thing.
If it weren't for his horrendous pace... this series would eclipse LotR as my favorite fantasy series.