So, the WaT (SLA5) preview prologue released yesterday was announced like over a week ago by Tor plus it's very similar to the first draft that BrandoSando released on March 30, 2022 on his website.
When Tor posted the pixelated picture of the Winds and Truth cover, my first thought was they would wait for you to film fantasy news before they finally revealed it. Almost surprised they didn't drop it last night just to mess with you
Brandon said in his update today that the final version of the cover isn't finished, that was very much a teaser and not an indication the cover was coming soon. They (they being Tor rather than Sanderson's team) announced the start of these preview chapters 2 weeks ago.
@@patrickboyle1135the US cover for Rhythm of War was revealed 17th August 2020, so hopefully we should be able to see the WAT cover before the end of August
If you haven't seen Frieren, I cannot emphasize enough how incredible it is. It turns what would be the epilogue of other fantasy books, where the party of heroes comes back after defeating the demon king, into the primary story. It follows an elf, for whom the 10 years of travel were less than 1% of how long she's lived, but the rest of her party are shorter-lived species. There is a reason it has taken and now retained the spot of Highest Rated Anime of All Time on My Anime List. Please do yourself a favor and read/watch it
It also exists as a series of light novels, a manga _and_ (though not fully adapted) anime! A lot of options when it comes to how you wanna approach it :)
Its a slightly above average series the themes are good but thats it pretty much. Worldbuiilding is as generic as it gets and mostly doesnt make sense and isnt fleshjd out at all its pretty much what author thinks its cool. For anime thats all about relations it fails to portray human condition you have thinks like a young girl fighting and killing a demon that look like human with 0 emotions being showed and things like that. Every episode tends to be extremely episodic which is not bad but the formula has very little variance. Characters dont really make sense including main character she is over thousand old elf that barely had any lived in experience and had close relationshions with few character for example, elves in general dont make sense. It falls into a lot of generic shounen/isekai tropes like dungeons being part of thje world, or people overly explain everything they do in a fight. The main theme of anime is nice but its not explored deep enough and ends up pretty shallow and is opposite of the show dont tell rule, iots extremely on the nose. Overall its fun show to watch if you dont think about anyuthing that is happening and just experience it but definitely nowhere close to what a lot of people make it out to be.
@@esobelisk3110 At one book a year he will be 70 at the end of the deal. Many people live to that age but there is no guarantee you will still be able to work or even communicate. Hopefully he will but any actuary will tell you it is a gamble, even if you are rich.
@DanielGreeneReviews every Tuesday at 3 PM my time I frantically look for my phone to be able to post this as quickly after you upload as possible. Lately I've even been beating the notification
@@stijnionio8238that’s genuinely impressive. I can’t even remember to get here to pin the comment for the sponsor before the notification goes out every time. Well done 👏 👏 👏
@@paulwoodford1984 nah I just started Mistborn era 1 gonna complete it before WaT release and then will start stormlight archive by next year so yea it's never too late if you wanna ride the Sanderlanche
To be fair. They did announce they were gonna release chapters every Monday until the release a few weeks ago. Although that also means they're gonna keep you working long until December 😂
Yes, I'm not surprised at all, he said it a few weeks ago and I just happened to watch that update. So perhaps the awesome video distracted Daniel from this info
Also Dragonsteel doesn't work on the weekends so new update are going to happen Monday night/Tuesday morning. Its the reason the podcast is on Tuesday instead of Monday. On one podcast Brandon goes "Wait, you guys work on Sunday to get these done? Move to release day and take Sunday off".
Daniel, you’ll have to readjust your schedule. Sanderson is famously a night owl so 9:00 PM Eastern is like lunchtime for him. Take a melatonin and wake up at like 4 PM
"No one's got an issue with using AI to communicate with dolphins." I'm just going to commemorate that statement for the not-too-distant future when AI accidentally radicalizes dolphins against humans. There I said it.
Fourth Wing feels like an Industry Plant for the book industry. Had an ungodly amount of hype from a practically unknown author. Sold gangbusters upon release with the sequel practically already being ready to release once the first came out. Only for people to come out of it seeing it as quite generic and shoddily written. And NOW its getting a (presumably) high budget adaptation? Feels so weird considering how many better projects would thrive from an adaptation.
I think there are major overlaps between Fourth Wing in the romantasy genre and Divergent in the very popular at the time YA dystopian genre. Distill the hype to it's essential parts and produce a work with no soul, just dollar signs.
@@Micahlee_19 I agree, Divergent was the tipping point where readers began seeing the genre had peaked and was only degrading with subsequent attempts taking the skeleton of what made the tropes work and miss handling them. We're now seeing the same thing happen here where there's YET ANOTHER 'Sun-kissed' toned body brooding love interest who's SOOO prone to violence but not around our pov female protagonist. Same shit, different book.
I think saying its an industry plant is a cope out! espically if you do even a little research on the agent & writer. It's more of a group of women who have been working together in this field for alot of years (alot of experince in a very reletive field Romance), saw an opportunity (fantasy romance), had the skills to pull it off, and nailed it! There will ALWAYS be "better" projects but thats not how this (nor most) industry works. I personally read widely and read Alot, when I read Fourth wing I knew who the readers for this story is! its CLEAR, the branding is clear, if you know anything about amazon ad/ algorithms--- the marketing is GENIUS level.
As someone who has read romantasy for a long time I roll my eyes every time there's an 'industry plant' theory. The romantasy and YA genres have always been full of over hyped breakout hits from unknown authors. Pretty much every established YA/romantasy author got there because they were lucky enough to hit the zeitgeist sweet spot after debuting as an unknown. Some authors have managed to sustain their popularity long term after a breakout hit (Suzanne Collins, Sarah J. Maas), while others have fallen back into obscurity afterwards. Its a mass market genre and authors often live or die based on whether they manage to make a splash with their debut or not. Scores of authors never make it and its a basically a lottery, always has been. Yarros isn't the first phenom and she won't be the last. She's just very lucky and wrote something incredibly marketable that her publusher could run with.
As a fellow fantasy fan, I can only urge you as much as possible to dive into Frieren. Very rarely do you find character and story work as good as Frieren, not just in manga/anime but in the entire genre as a whole.
@@halo6819 while I agree with you, I do think it's worth noting the major style differences between a series like Outlander which takes itself internally very seriously and is much more literary-style (especially since Gabaldon doesn't guarantee a happy ending or consider her books romances) rather than the fun rompy romantasy series with more new-adult style of writing. I haven't read Discovery of Witches but I did love the show.
Moira Walley-Beckett isn't just any Breaking Bad writer either, she wrote Ozymandias! Widely regarded as the best episode of the show, and still (as far as I recall) IMDB's only episode of TV to ever sit at a perfect 10/10 rating.
I'm actually way more interested in the Fourth Wing show now. Anne with an E is one of the best adaptations I've seen in a long time, it has the soul of the original without dismissing the horrible things that were happening in the region at the time. I'm super down to see her rework Fourth Wing into a show and hopefully give the characters a bit more depth.
The Galactic Zookeeper's Guide to Heists and Husbandry sounds like a trip. I was so confused throughout the whole description, but I also can't wait to read it.
For the Fantasy News guy did you not know Sanderson announced he would be dropping the first two chapters of book 5 on July 29th and two chapters every Friday following until further notice. If not it was in his UA-cam update on July 16th.
But didn't we know that Sanderson was going to start releasing sample chapters starting today? Im reasonably certain that was announced a couple weeks ago.
Thank you for the feedback and kind words, Daniel! I must not have favorites, but I, too, prefer the reversible cover art of Sun Eater. That's what I will be displaying! I hope you love the rest of the cover art! :D
Sanderson started releasing news late Monday/tuesday instead of early Monday, because he found out his employees were doing overtime and working Sundays in preparation, and he felt bad. Ps the frieren mimic gag, i thought would get old, but it honestly just keeps getting funnier for me
The 4 Bachman novels collected in that grouping - Rage, The Long Walk, The Running Man, and Roadwork were all great. Happy to see 2 of those novels potentially getting banger adaptations.
Daniel PLEASE don’t sleep on Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. It’s the best fantasy anime in decades and one of the most unique and cutting edge stories in the genre right now. Just watch the trailer if you're curious
Friendly reminder that Spielberg also directed the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. So, aside from ET, ‘The Dish’ is another widely anticipated first encounter movie under his belt. 😊
It sounds like Fourth Wing will have some major rewriting, which, in my opinion, is needed. Sure, a lot of romantasy is a feel-good epic but it doesn't mean they can't have decent worldbuilding and internal logic, and sadly a lot of it lacks that
I stated this in another comment above but I feel like Fourth Wing is doing in the romantasy genre is parallel to what Divergent did in the YA Dystopian genre. An absolute distillation of the genre to it's essential parts in order to grab as much cash as possible, with a low quality adaptation to boot.
Seemingly, the entire staff of Amazon’s RoP has absolutely no idea what Middle Earth is all about and is simply using the world as a vehicle for their own desires, Tolkien and the rest of us fans be damned. Also, Sanderson knows EXACTLY what he’s doing 😂.
I would say My Lady Jane, that came out recently on Prime is romantasy, albeit historical romantasy. I don’t know how well it did but I thought it was enjoyable!
The preface and prologue from B$ were released as a part of the weekly preview chapters. There will be new chapters dropped every Mon @11am ET until Dec. 6
Oh man you have to watch Frieren. It’s beautiful quintessential fantasy with incredible art and music. Even if you’re not an anime enjoyer you’ll find something to love.
A fun experience was to listen to the Long Walk audiobook while walking on the treadmill at 4.0 mph (the pace the teenagers can't go below) you get a better appreciation of how exhausted the kids get
Scalzi wrote The Kaiju Preservation Society during the pandemic to cheer himself up. I had a great time reading it, I hope you like it when you do pick it up 😊
to be fair, Sanderson announced that reveal weeks ago. So you don't get surprised again, they will post 1-3 chapters every Monday until the book releases (that's like 20-30% of the book for free)
Reversible covers have been a thing in video games for a long time now, and I can't imagine why it's not also a trend in fantasy hardcovers already. I hope it's a successful experiment and we see a lot more of it.
Daniel mentioned one of my all time favorite series, Kushiel’s Dart (well the series is Kushiel’s Legacy, but my point still stands.) and now I can hold out hope that he’ll review it! The series needs more love.
totally agree with you on your thoughts for the fourth wing adaptation sticking to what the books are and not trying to change the intention and tone of the books, I hope they follow that! I enjoyed the books for the really fun adventurous entertainment value that they have, I hope the showrunners realise that
I read The Long Walk back in the mid 2000s while I was training for my first marathon…I’ve never felt physical effects from reading like I did reading this story. 😩
Beyond Journey's end is a really good show. Recommend it completely, but if just lost someone close, might want to wait just a tiny bit if you don't want to be reminded of that so soon.
The Long Walk adaptation is definitely one I'm looking forward to. Hoping they strike the tone well. Would love to experience the crushing despair I feel from that 8-ish hour read in a nice bite-sized 2 hour maximum time limit.
nah, twilight isn't romantasy. It's paranormal romance, since it's still set on earth and has no other world. Romantasy usually involves two worlds and could probably be argued as an offshoot of portal fantasy
I ordered that book, The Galactic Zookeeper's Guide to Heists and Husbandry, 2 days ago and it’s out for delivery rn. Was going through my wish list and it’s on sale for £2.84 on uk Amazon I currently have a “gays in space (& time),” section on my bookshelf and so this kind of space buggery will fit right in. The straight rep, I guess. Mentally I’m bracing for Firefly vibes 🤞🏽
Me, reading "The Long Walk" as a teen: "Holy crap this is bleak and horrifying - imagine volunteering for to face almost certain death after a grueling slog just for the slim chance of a bit of money and a prize at the end, while others laugh at your misfortune. Thank goodness it's only a story." Adult me, after several decades of struggling to make any headway towards financial stability in an end-stage capitalist economy: "Oh...oh no..."
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So, the WaT (SLA5) preview prologue released yesterday was announced like over a week ago by Tor plus it's very similar to the first draft that BrandoSando released on March 30, 2022 on his website.
Oh hey, It's Sandonalsium!
Hello, and thank you for always making the goblin work harder! oh, and for the amazing books too, I guess.
You're my hero
His evil knows no bounds. May the otters haunt you sir. 😂
I can’t wait to see the cover for S5! (And how painful it’s release day is for Daniel)
Seems you’re in full prankster mode with this 😂
Came to comments for this haha. Nice.
Sanderson has a clock that only shows the time when he should make a post to make Daniel work harder to include it in Fantasy News.
Sanderson vs The Goblin is one of my favorite sagas to follow atm
When Tor posted the pixelated picture of the Winds and Truth cover, my first thought was they would wait for you to film fantasy news before they finally revealed it. Almost surprised they didn't drop it last night just to mess with you
Truthful Winds 😂
Brandon said in his update today that the final version of the cover isn't finished, that was very much a teaser and not an indication the cover was coming soon. They (they being Tor rather than Sanderson's team) announced the start of these preview chapters 2 weeks ago.
@@patrickboyle1135the US cover for Rhythm of War was revealed 17th August 2020, so hopefully we should be able to see the WAT cover before the end of August
If you haven't seen Frieren, I cannot emphasize enough how incredible it is. It turns what would be the epilogue of other fantasy books, where the party of heroes comes back after defeating the demon king, into the primary story. It follows an elf, for whom the 10 years of travel were less than 1% of how long she's lived, but the rest of her party are shorter-lived species. There is a reason it has taken and now retained the spot of Highest Rated Anime of All Time on My Anime List. Please do yourself a favor and read/watch it
It also exists as a series of light novels, a manga _and_ (though not fully adapted) anime! A lot of options when it comes to how you wanna approach it :)
its ok
@@threemeters1425do you derive joy from being contrarian? Why did you have to say this?
You must watch
Its a slightly above average series the themes are good but thats it pretty much. Worldbuiilding is as generic as it gets and mostly doesnt make sense and isnt fleshjd out at all its pretty much what author thinks its cool. For anime thats all about relations it fails to portray human condition you have thinks like a young girl fighting and killing a demon that look like human with 0 emotions being showed and things like that. Every episode tends to be extremely episodic which is not bad but the formula has very little variance. Characters dont really make sense including main character she is over thousand old elf that barely had any lived in experience and had close relationshions with few character for example, elves in general dont make sense. It falls into a lot of generic shounen/isekai tropes like dungeons being part of thje world, or people overly explain everything they do in a fight. The main theme of anime is nice but its not explored deep enough and ends up pretty shallow and is opposite of the show dont tell rule, iots extremely on the nose. Overall its fun show to watch if you dont think about anyuthing that is happening and just experience it but definitely nowhere close to what a lot of people make it out to be.
“Starting in 2029” that’s an insane amount of time in the future to make plans for. That’s like, a flying-car-future year, not a real life year
Freshman in high school right now will be graduating. As an adult that doesn't feel that long. As a teenager? Eons...
He is 55 years old now, that is optimism.
@@pattheplanter i don’t remember who this is about, but if he’s 55 now, he’ll be 60 in 2029, which is well below the life expectancy.
@@esobelisk3110 At one book a year he will be 70 at the end of the deal. Many people live to that age but there is no guarantee you will still be able to work or even communicate. Hopefully he will but any actuary will tell you it is a gamble, even if you are rich.
A week without Fantasy News is a week without Fantasy News
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@DanielGreeneReviews every Tuesday at 3 PM my time I frantically look for my phone to be able to post this as quickly after you upload as possible. Lately I've even been beating the notification
@@stijnionio8238that’s genuinely impressive. I can’t even remember to get here to pin the comment for the sponsor before the notification goes out every time. Well done 👏 👏 👏
@@DanielGreeneReviews thanks ♥️
This is one of the comments ever.
Damn, Sanderson did it again. Everything is going to be okay, Daniel.
I have never read anything by Sanderson. Too late to start now. so i never get the excitement for the guy
@@paulwoodford1984 skill issue
@@paulwoodford1984 nah I just started Mistborn era 1 gonna complete it before WaT release and then will start stormlight archive by next year so yea it's never too late if you wanna ride the Sanderlanche
@@elpoopoo3983 i just read cloud atlas so no. Sanderson is more for kiddies
@@paulwoodford1984 Completely wrong, but you do you boo
When the Tor hits your eye like with a big money pie, that's a payday.
To be fair. They did announce they were gonna release chapters every Monday until the release a few weeks ago. Although that also means they're gonna keep you working long until December 😂
Yes, I'm not surprised at all, he said it a few weeks ago and I just happened to watch that update. So perhaps the awesome video distracted Daniel from this info
@@Stumblingthroughlife Same here. Daniel dropped the ball there.
Also Dragonsteel doesn't work on the weekends so new update are going to happen Monday night/Tuesday morning. Its the reason the podcast is on Tuesday instead of Monday. On one podcast Brandon goes "Wait, you guys work on Sunday to get these done? Move to release day and take Sunday off".
@@arthurmarshall6825 That makes sense. So Daniel has been giving him shit for years when actually Brandon is just being a good employer 😂
10:14 As soon as I heard eaten by a mimic I was like “Frieren?” And yep! That’s fun.
Actually crazy how popular Frieren has become.
@@kensin3152 Deservedly so. A non-isekai fantasy concept being lauded is great.
Frieren is the best show ive seen this year, really great slow paced story telling and lovable characters. Can't recommend it enough
You would really enjoy Frieren its such good chill fantasy vibes.
Daniel, you’ll have to readjust your schedule. Sanderson is famously a night owl so 9:00 PM Eastern is like lunchtime for him. Take a melatonin and wake up at like 4 PM
"No one's got an issue with using AI to communicate with dolphins."
I'm just going to commemorate that statement for the not-too-distant future when AI accidentally radicalizes dolphins against humans. There I said it.
Yeah... accidentally.
Daniel's existential crisis brought on by the Skibidi news is honestly so endearing
Fourth Wing feels like an Industry Plant for the book industry.
Had an ungodly amount of hype from a practically unknown author. Sold gangbusters upon release with the sequel practically already being ready to release once the first came out. Only for people to come out of it seeing it as quite generic and shoddily written. And NOW its getting a (presumably) high budget adaptation? Feels so weird considering how many better projects would thrive from an adaptation.
I think there are major overlaps between Fourth Wing in the romantasy genre and Divergent in the very popular at the time YA dystopian genre. Distill the hype to it's essential parts and produce a work with no soul, just dollar signs.
@@Micahlee_19 I agree, Divergent was the tipping point where readers began seeing the genre had peaked and was only degrading with subsequent attempts taking the skeleton of what made the tropes work and miss handling them. We're now seeing the same thing happen here where there's YET ANOTHER 'Sun-kissed' toned body brooding love interest who's SOOO prone to violence but not around our pov female protagonist. Same shit, different book.
I think saying its an industry plant is a cope out! espically if you do even a little research on the agent & writer. It's more of a group of women who have been working together in this field for alot of years (alot of experince in a very reletive field Romance), saw an opportunity (fantasy romance), had the skills to pull it off, and nailed it! There will ALWAYS be "better" projects but thats not how this (nor most) industry works. I personally read widely and read Alot, when I read Fourth wing I knew who the readers for this story is! its CLEAR, the branding is clear, if you know anything about amazon ad/ algorithms--- the marketing is GENIUS level.
As someone who has read romantasy for a long time I roll my eyes every time there's an 'industry plant' theory. The romantasy and YA genres have always been full of over hyped breakout hits from unknown authors. Pretty much every established YA/romantasy author got there because they were lucky enough to hit the zeitgeist sweet spot after debuting as an unknown. Some authors have managed to sustain their popularity long term after a breakout hit (Suzanne Collins, Sarah J. Maas), while others have fallen back into obscurity afterwards. Its a mass market genre and authors often live or die based on whether they manage to make a splash with their debut or not. Scores of authors never make it and its a basically a lottery, always has been. Yarros isn't the first phenom and she won't be the last. She's just very lucky and wrote something incredibly marketable that her publusher could run with.
The moment I saw Mimic Display, I knew it was Frieren. The gag of a thousand+ year old elf mage falling for a mimic every single time never gets old.
As a fellow dyslexic, I just want to say I did not even notice actor vs acotar. You’re not stupid. Our brains just work differently.
As a fellow fantasy fan, I can only urge you as much as possible to dive into Frieren. Very rarely do you find character and story work as good as Frieren, not just in manga/anime but in the entire genre as a whole.
that empire of silence cover art is so cool, the full set is gonna go crazy
Gotta laugh a little though, Brandon announced weeks ago that the chapters will be dropping weekly until the release of Wind and Truth
Steven Erikson also announced that he has one more day of read-through before he sends the second book of Witness to his publishers!
To be honest, I'm just relieved that Sanderson didn't announce another five secret novels.
ummm no, PLEASE announce more secret projects
Andextronophul; In Secret
Outlander is a major adaptation of a Romanticy
Discovery of Witches is another one.
@@halo6819 while I agree with you, I do think it's worth noting the major style differences between a series like Outlander which takes itself internally very seriously and is much more literary-style (especially since Gabaldon doesn't guarantee a happy ending or consider her books romances) rather than the fun rompy romantasy series with more new-adult style of writing. I haven't read Discovery of Witches but I did love the show.
I do think that Outlander also leans a bit more into historical fantasy than romantasy
@@juliagaylard4186 fair, I haven’t read the books, only watched a couple seasons and by current TV standards was fairly spicy
I know I'm just adding to the choir here, but Frieren is genuinely one of the best shows I've ever watched.
Moira Walley-Beckett isn't just any Breaking Bad writer either, she wrote Ozymandias! Widely regarded as the best episode of the show, and still (as far as I recall) IMDB's only episode of TV to ever sit at a perfect 10/10 rating.
Your struggle is seen, Goblin Lord. And it is funny.
I'm actually way more interested in the Fourth Wing show now. Anne with an E is one of the best adaptations I've seen in a long time, it has the soul of the original without dismissing the horrible things that were happening in the region at the time. I'm super down to see her rework Fourth Wing into a show and hopefully give the characters a bit more depth.
The Galactic Zookeeper's Guide to Heists and Husbandry sounds like a trip. I was so confused throughout the whole description, but I also can't wait to read it.
If hardcovers come with reverse covers, I'll start buying them instead.
Jackson. WOW. Such poetry. Run it over a beat.
Daniel, loved the unique ending
For the Fantasy News guy did you not know Sanderson announced he would be dropping the first two chapters of book 5 on July 29th and two chapters every Friday following until further notice. If not it was in his UA-cam update on July 16th.
But didn't we know that Sanderson was going to start releasing sample chapters starting today? Im reasonably certain that was announced a couple weeks ago.
The issue… is I don’t pay attention (So it keeps happening and the joke is too easy not to make)
@DanielGreeneReviews Haha. Sounds good. It was a funny bit.
How about moving this back a day? The space largely revolves around Sanderson anyway so might as well release on HIS time lol
It would be hilarious if he moved it to Wednesday, and then Sanderson made a major announcement on a Tuesday evening 😂
I fear no man. but that thing... [Bay's Skibidi] It scares me.
5:30 Twilight is more of a PNR than Romantasy. Not enough worldbuiliding and such to be called an urban romantasy
I mean, you mentioned ET, but Spielberg also did Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind which is *explicitly* about flying saucers...
Frieren is a great fantasy, the anime is also very good!
An hour after the fantasy news, the Cradle trailer dropped. I suppose that's life lol
Daniel being unsure what he did to earn Brandon’s wrath. Maybe Brandon saw Daniel’s Hero of ages review…
I loled so hard when you said "the rings of power trailer certainly occurred" 😂😂 it's kinda how I felt at the time
You should definitely read Frieren: Beyond the journey's end.
Dan, you should give Frieren a watch. One of, if not the best anime of the year.
Thank you for the feedback and kind words, Daniel! I must not have favorites, but I, too, prefer the reversible cover art of Sun Eater. That's what I will be displaying! I hope you love the rest of the cover art! :D
Sanderson started releasing news late Monday/tuesday instead of early Monday, because he found out his employees were doing overtime and working Sundays in preparation, and he felt bad.
Ps the frieren mimic gag, i thought would get old, but it honestly just keeps getting funnier for me
The 4 Bachman novels collected in that grouping - Rage, The Long Walk, The Running Man, and Roadwork were all great. Happy to see 2 of those novels potentially getting banger adaptations.
Daniel PLEASE don’t sleep on Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. It’s the best fantasy anime in decades and one of the most unique and cutting edge stories in the genre right now. Just watch the trailer if you're curious
Friendly reminder that Spielberg also directed the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. So, aside from ET, ‘The Dish’ is another widely anticipated first encounter movie under his belt. 😊
It sounds like Fourth Wing will have some major rewriting, which, in my opinion, is needed.
Sure, a lot of romantasy is a feel-good epic but it doesn't mean they can't have decent worldbuilding and internal logic, and sadly a lot of it lacks that
Yeah, Fourth Wing is a great first read, but it doesn't hold up to further analysis unfortunately.
I stated this in another comment above but I feel like Fourth Wing is doing in the romantasy genre is parallel to what Divergent did in the YA Dystopian genre. An absolute distillation of the genre to it's essential parts in order to grab as much cash as possible, with a low quality adaptation to boot.
Seemingly, the entire staff of Amazon’s RoP has absolutely no idea what Middle Earth is all about and is simply using the world as a vehicle for their own desires, Tolkien and the rest of us fans be damned.
Also, Sanderson knows EXACTLY what he’s doing 😂.
I would say My Lady Jane, that came out recently on Prime is romantasy, albeit historical romantasy. I don’t know how well it did but I thought it was enjoyable!
Regarding romantic fantasy adaptation, what about A Discovery of Witches? That was adapted into a series that started in 2018 and just ended in 2022.
10:18 you should really really Really REALLY read/watch frieren, it is sooooo good
@DanielGreene my guy you should definetly watch Frieren.
11:30 that must be one of the best apologies I have ever heard. I shall use it as inspiration in my writing
The preface and prologue from B$ were released as a part of the weekly preview chapters. There will be new chapters dropped every Mon @11am ET until Dec. 6
The fires of Fantasy News is from all of those bookshelf roasts
Freiren is a ten out of ten, can't recommend enough!
Everybody read the long walk, underrated masterpiece
NGL "The Galactic Zookeeper's Guide to Heists and Husbandry" sounds wild and I am going to get this RIGHT NOW.
Oh man you have to watch Frieren. It’s beautiful quintessential fantasy with incredible art and music. Even if you’re not an anime enjoyer you’ll find something to love.
Wait. . . the Skibbidy toilet thing was REAL???? What is this world coming to?! 😱😱
The Marvel wrap rap was excellent… The Skibidi Toilet news makes my soul die. 😢
A fun experience was to listen to the Long Walk audiobook while walking on the treadmill at 4.0 mph (the pace the teenagers can't go below) you get a better appreciation of how exhausted the kids get
23:01 "So if you like xenomorphs like myself..."
I knew it.
I haven’t checked in to your channel for a while but I really like your new bookshelf set up.
I think that you would enjoy Frieren.
Get on the Frieren hype train Daniel! It's an awesome anime
Watch (or read) Frieren!!
Fourth Wing will make all the UA-cam critics rich when they roast the hell out of it. 🤣
Daniel you gotta check out Frieren! Such a good story dealing with long lives, regrets, and atonements.
Jackson made the marvel news bearable with that rap 😂 very clever of him
Twilight is paranormal romance, of which there is a plethora in tv media, not romantasy
Daniel you should read or watch Frieren. It would absolutely be up your alley
Fantasy News is my favorite news to watch! It's the only news I watch but.... Anyway!! Keep up the awesomity!!!
Scalzi wrote The Kaiju Preservation Society during the pandemic to cheer himself up. I had a great time reading it, I hope you like it when you do pick it up 😊
Daniel hyping up tomorrow's video... when I'm going to be driving day long.
to be fair, Sanderson announced that reveal weeks ago. So you don't get surprised again, they will post 1-3 chapters every Monday until the book releases (that's like 20-30% of the book for free)
11:48 do you know Tor is going to be releasing a preview chapter, every single week until the release. So this might keep happening.
Reversible covers have been a thing in video games for a long time now, and I can't imagine why it's not also a trend in fantasy hardcovers already. I hope it's a successful experiment and we see a lot more of it.
“ I am what u call….stupid”🤣
Daniel mentioned one of my all time favorite series, Kushiel’s Dart (well the series is Kushiel’s Legacy, but my point still stands.) and now I can hold out hope that he’ll review it! The series needs more love.
totally agree with you on your thoughts for the fourth wing adaptation sticking to what the books are and not trying to change the intention and tone of the books, I hope they follow that! I enjoyed the books for the really fun adventurous entertainment value that they have, I hope the showrunners realise that
I read The Long Walk back in the mid 2000s while I was training for my first marathon…I’ve never felt physical effects from reading like I did reading this story. 😩
Are you still planning a Sabriel review? If so, Im really looking forward to it
Beyond Journey's end is a really good show. Recommend it completely, but if just lost someone close, might want to wait just a tiny bit if you don't want to be reminded of that so soon.
Lets not forget Close Encounters of the Third Kind when we discuss Spielberg alien movies
The Long Walk adaptation is definitely one I'm looking forward to. Hoping they strike the tone well. Would love to experience the crushing despair I feel from that 8-ish hour read in a nice bite-sized 2 hour maximum time limit.
Petition to move Fantasy news to a day after, to see if Sanderson will the troll Daniel and release news just as Daniel is editing 😂😂😂
nah, twilight isn't romantasy. It's paranormal romance, since it's still set on earth and has no other world. Romantasy usually involves two worlds and could probably be argued as an offshoot of portal fantasy
23:00 "So if you like Xenomorphs like myself"
Daniel, are you not telling us something...?
I ordered that book, The Galactic Zookeeper's Guide to Heists and Husbandry, 2 days ago and it’s out for delivery rn. Was going through my wish list and it’s on sale for £2.84 on uk Amazon I currently have a “gays in space (& time),” section on my bookshelf and so this kind of space buggery will fit right in. The straight rep, I guess. Mentally I’m bracing for Firefly vibes 🤞🏽
I would bet money if you give Frieren a try you're going to fall in love with it
Me, reading "The Long Walk" as a teen: "Holy crap this is bleak and horrifying - imagine volunteering for to face almost certain death after a grueling slog just for the slim chance of a bit of money and a prize at the end, while others laugh at your misfortune. Thank goodness it's only a story."
Adult me, after several decades of struggling to make any headway towards financial stability in an end-stage capitalist economy: "Oh...oh no..."
I remember when you use to review books. Oh well. I guess I'll check back in a couple months and see if there are any reviews.
The Sanderson chapters do come out midday on Mondays. Just really sad its only ebook format this time and now audio like he has done in the past.
"if you like xenomorphs like myself"... Did you just admit to being a xenomorph, Daniel?!
The brain rot comes to theaters....