/lit/ - Literature

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John Gwynne is a medieval larper, so you get high authenticity, a lot of pretty good fight scenes, fairly low magic, a bunch of norse/celtic inspired cultural stuff and weird passages where the protagonist literally decides to get /fit/ and starts doing dips and chin ups.

Apart from that traits of him are multi viewpoint storytelling with quite a lot of characters, a lot of immediatly satisfying but not terribly complex subplots like revenge stories or training arcs, some mythology sprinkled in, rudimentary but effective prose, fast pacing and decent characters. There is also some misdirection and hidden information at play, but nowhere near as much as other authors do, mostly the books are straight and hard to the point.

Stuff I don't like about him is that the characters can be very archetypical. Gwynne has his types, and sometimes two characters occupy the same role in a story to the point where one is just an inferior version of the other. That makes viewpoint chapters of the discount character very boring to read, especially if they follow a chapter by a very similar but better character. Also his ideas lack a certain excitement. There are books which have more interesting ideas in a chapter than Gwynne has in an entire book, although those are rarely low fantasy.

He is the fat guy with the axe