The Lord of the Rings is so cosy and exciting and epic... It's just all of those things at once. It makes you sigh in relief, makes you shiver, makes you hungry, makes your mind wander, makes you care, makes you relax, makes you cry, … I don't think it will ever be topped by anything.
@@dapearl1463 Are you saying that because you never read LotR books and thus don't know that majority of the books is just people walking around, or because you feel like the constant threat of Sauron's victory is opressing enough to overwhelm the cozyness? 🤔
@@mielipuolisiili7240 Naw I read them, but dunno how to explain it. I read the Hobbit kids version fairly soon after I saw the movie ... and if you look at the movie poster it's certainly not that cozy looking. But a couple years later I read the full book and I was still in elementary school at the time. Thinking back on it, I could deffinitely say it gives me cozy vibes, not to say that it was bad, and even with the battle against Smaug and all, still feel that cozy vibe. Ah! Like for instance when Bilbo discovers the Ring. This is the One Ring to rule them all, yet the battle for it was a riddle battle? Not knocking it, but just saying there's something pretty cozy about how that was resolved over the most destructive item in creation. Ugh sorry for the long reply .... just kinda responded off the hoof
@@dapearl1463 Oh, I wasn't contesting wether Hobbit was cozy. I totally agree that it is. I was just questioning why Lord of the Rings wouldn't be cozy, since a really large part of it is focused on describing the characters travel through scenery and other stuff that I find very cozy.
You put it so well. The cozy part needs to be a part of so much more. I love fantasy, and like the idea of cozy fantasy. But the cozy fantasy books just fall incredibly short.
Love this. I loved Redwall as a kid. I can still taste the delicious pies, pastries, fizzes and wines served in the tapestry lined halls. I can imagine the smell of the musty cheese cellar when sneaking a piece of their famous cheese to pack in my knapsack for the next quest. The descriptions were amazing, it's the best food I've ever eaten..
i super agree with you!!! i have tried four or five "cozy fantasy" books and i just can't stand them, there are no stakes and that's what makes a story INTERESTING. i asked reddit about a month ago for some suggestions and ive been working through those, but i will be adding some of these to my list as well!
I get the cozy part, I just don't know why I would read a (whole) book about it. (Added note: I had such severe rhinitis until I was about 30 that now I'm grateful for every day that I can breathe through my nose. I DO notice!)
Thank you for making these videos. Your deep lives and suggestions are very helpful in deciding what might be entertaining. Your descriptions are very descriptive.
I found a cheap secondhand copy of The Name of the Wind recently, as well as Jonathan Strange, and the first two His Dark Materials, so looks like the universe wants me to read something cosy! I loved The Hobbit, and the original Harry Potter books are super cosy reads for me (Dobby, and Hagrid🥰). I might have to re-read them soon.
i always thought cozy fantasy meant a fantasy story but with much smaller tho no less important stakes. where the scope is not saving the world but rather something smaller and personal. but it should still have all the ups and downs of a story, its just whats in the ups and down is vastly different. but i could be wrong. i had to look at my bookshelves and i'm not really sure if any of them are cozy fantasy. i haven't picked up anything that's been labeled as that because well they just didn't sound interesting. i think i get cozy gothic a bit better than cozy fantasy. i'd say something like the addams family fits that idea for me. or rather that is what i personally find cozy.
Completely agree. Its what I feel like cozy fantasy should be. Or maybe what I wish it was? What works to make me feel cozy? Especially the third chapter. 😊
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett is perfect cozy fantasy to me. Funny and wimsical with witches. What's not to like? And in this world even Death is a good guy who might stick around for a chat.
The cozy parts of ROTE are so great and so cozy, which is such a contrast to the parts that ruin your entire life. Like the contrast of the reunion at the beginning of Fool's Errand vs the end of Fool's Fate - yikes. I think the whiplash is part of why I love that series so much.
3:05 like the Dowager said in Downtown, “what is a week end🧐”. In economics there is the concept of marginal utility and it says that even a good thing will start to lose utility after at the margins, the first bite of an apple when you have been craving it and is not the same as the 5th or the 6th one
YES Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell!! ADORE that book, and I would recommend the short story collection set in the same world, The Ladies of Grace Adeiu! Also Redwall; beautiful prose and great stories.
Man what a great video idea, I wish I had thought of it for my own channel 😂 I've had this thought so many times. Like we have cozy books we don't need a whole sub genre for it 😂
Yes! Thank you for this. I love fantasy that has "cozy" parts or elements, as you say here. And your examples are some really great books, although I spent the first half of the video thinking "Why isn't she mentioning Tolkien? Surely that's a superb example of what she's talking about?"
A lot of what makes a story cosy for me is honestly just the characters and their relationships with eachother. Like what's cosier than the end of the world but among friends?? For cosy sci-fi I highly recommend Murderbot and Ancillary Justice trilogy. There's stakes and stuff is happening while at the same time having desserts.
In line with Murderbot, I recommend all of Martha Wells' books for that, especially the Tales of the Raksura series! Truly amazing high fantasy with strong stakes and great cozy moments you can sink into
I agree, i absolutely DESPISE fall and winter!!! But, i know if we didn’t have them, i probably wouldn’t appreciate spring and summer so much! (I think i would still love it just as much but I’m being realistic 😆 )
This is such a good take, havent even gotten to the book picks yet but I agree with it so hard. Not a huge wheel of time fan but I'm hoping you've got the eye of the world on here, I've got one specific scene in mind
I love cosy mystery! Agatha Christie comes to mind. The setting and time period supply the cosy feelings and the plot keeps plenty of suspense for contrast! The perfect cosy reading, in my opinion!
I started reading DBC when I was recovering from surgery in the middle of a snowy winter and it was overall a very soothing read considering I was either in pain or high on pain meds.
I agree with nearly all of your picks and really appreciate the distinction you make about cozyness. I would definitely add Narnia to this, but it's so well-known it might as well be left off. So, since I've read most of these and agree about them, now you've got me putting The Name of the Wind much higher on my TBR than it was before!
Good list. I'm realizing I haven't actually read many cozy fantasy books, aside from the spellshop, like they're in my massive queue but I keep putting it off and I think you've summarized why. Rote is one of my favorites fwiw. Edit: I like kingfisher idk if she's classified as cozy. Oops I think she is
Assassin’s Apprentice was definitely a nice cozy read when I was ill in the late fall and early winter of 2020. Name of the Wind was also a great cozy read the year before when I read it the previous winter.
I agree mostly but I can also understand why certain people who live very stressful lives or are depressed may perfer cozy stories with no conflict if it let's them vicarously live a life they don't think they'll ever have. edit: not to say all or even most cozy fantasy readers hate their lives, just saying that would be a pretty understandable reason.
I like this emphasis - I have not tried any of the books marketed as cozy, maybe I'm underestimating them but it seems like too much of a good thing risks becoming a bit meh. The Lord of the Rings; so much there that is dark and fearful and onerous is book-ended by wondrous rest-stops where comforts and beauty are priority - course the strength of these moments have far more emphasis in Fellowship then subsequent books (save for the _long_ epilogue of Return of the King) but even in the darkest times, they steal their moments. This is not something I can say for the Silmarillion stories however - LOL - but do read it to appreciate just how good they have it in the 3rd age! I can easily believe Strange and Norrell is cozy because I found Piranesi overall very much so. There are dark times of course, but Piranesi's reverence for the setting he calls home is very infectious! I find Neverending Story cozy because much of the book is a boy escaping from his problems, because we view the story as fiction there's an added buffer of (apparent) safety - then the second half is all about wish fulfillment, which also is (seemingly) all about good rewards, until it's not. On top of that, one chapter - it's somewhat episodic - is just literally cozy incarnate. The Myst trilogy (largely about exploring, reading, writing, creativity and romance) The Bone series of graphic novels (Disney like drawings on a grand adventure in a sleepy valley) I think that's all I've got, but I expect good things from Charles de Lint's Newford series (or in general), Seasons of Albadone, and Terry Brook's Magic Kingdom
Great vid (par usual). If I might add some of my alternates: The two novellas by Patrick to complement The Name of the Wind; Never have I enjoyed (or possibly read) a "day in the life" story more. Also, I do need to reread Good Omens (as well as "American Gods") 'cause though well loved, the novel version never hit me. Which is the drawn out way of saying, my coz-Gaiman-y read is Neverwhere. ***now, if only J.A. would write "cozy day in the life" novellas: I would devour a contemplative frolic through the woods with Dogman and friends as they discuss Life, The Universe, and the People they are about to Murder. Or, Glokta's meditations, while sharpening his tools, on Zen and the Art of Information Extraction.
Truly amazing recommendations, just added a bunch of those to my TBR. I would like to recommend that you give a try to Tress of the Emerald Sea, even though I understand that you didn’t enjoy Brandon Sanderson. It’s quite different from other Sanderson’s books and it reads mostly as a whimsical fairytale, almost as a YA. However, I find that it perfectly falls into the category of fantasy that feels cozy, as I find that the stakes are much higher than those which you would find in a typical cozy fantasy🤍
I really dislike that “cozy” is a genre now, I’m into gaming as well and there’s this huge trend of “cozy” games. And I find that people who really hammer home on the “cozy” aspect of it are really gatekeepy. It feels like it strips away what makes a truly truly cozy thing … actually being cozy. The hobbit, ultimate cozy read. Skyrim, totally cozy. It’s about a feel and what makes you happy. And what’s important about it is the intent of the creator, I very much don’t think they were trying to make it cozy. It’s like you say, it can’t be Christmas every day, it will lose its magic. I’d much prefer people not tell me what is supposed to be cozy though. Or making the coziness so commercialized, that’s not cozy to me lol. How many times can I say cozy Anyway that’s my rant and you make incredible points here.
My cosy fantasy is Holly Black books. They're like a romcom but with fantasy and faeries and MURDER 😅 know it's not for everyone and it's YA bht YA often fills that space where there's still stakes but I know nobody is going to awfully die by exploited head like say Game of Thrones and nothing good ever happens.
One of the most cathartic reading experiences of my life was going through The First Law trilogy when my wife was dealing with a very difficult and medically complicated pregnancy. The juxtaposition of the burdens of our life with the plot of those books became an emotional outlet that let me laugh, cringe, and root for(?) the characters in much more difficult circumstances. First Law is a cozy fantasy for me. (…take that Travis Baldree)
We get it, you don't like cozy fantasy. Stop shi** on a sub genre just because you don't like it. Not everyone needs the drama or high stakes. That's why stories like this exist and are popular. If you don't enjoy it, then don't read it. It's not any less valid then grimdark or any other sub genre. Like slice of life stories, it focuses more on emotional and every day stories or activities. It can still have a lot of plot development though. It has existed in anime and manga for a long time. It's often wholesome and just has a different focus and maybe different pacing. And I'm sorry but your examples don't fall under cozy fantasy. Robin Hobb is amazing and it's slow paced but it's not a cozy fantasy.
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The Lord of the Rings is so cosy and exciting and epic... It's just all of those things at once. It makes you sigh in relief, makes you shiver, makes you hungry, makes your mind wander, makes you care, makes you relax, makes you cry, … I don't think it will ever be topped by anything.
I'd say maybe the Hobbit is more cozy like perhaps?
Omg yes!!! LOTR and The Hobbit are so cozy 🩵🩵
@@dapearl1463 Are you saying that because you never read LotR books and thus don't know that majority of the books is just people walking around, or because you feel like the constant threat of Sauron's victory is opressing enough to overwhelm the cozyness? 🤔
@@mielipuolisiili7240 Naw I read them, but dunno how to explain it. I read the Hobbit kids version fairly soon after I saw the movie ... and if you look at the movie poster it's certainly not that cozy looking. But a couple years later I read the full book and I was still in elementary school at the time. Thinking back on it, I could deffinitely say it gives me cozy vibes, not to say that it was bad, and even with the battle against Smaug and all, still feel that cozy vibe. Ah! Like for instance when Bilbo discovers the Ring. This is the One Ring to rule them all, yet the battle for it was a riddle battle? Not knocking it, but just saying there's something pretty cozy about how that was resolved over the most destructive item in creation. Ugh sorry for the long reply .... just kinda responded off the hoof
@@dapearl1463 Oh, I wasn't contesting wether Hobbit was cozy. I totally agree that it is. I was just questioning why Lord of the Rings wouldn't be cozy, since a really large part of it is focused on describing the characters travel through scenery and other stuff that I find very cozy.
Was 100% expecting this to just be First Law books 😂
I do have some self control…
@@LienesLibrary 😂
Rather surprised as well.
Logan had a cozy beginning to his evening camping trip…
You put it so well. The cozy part needs to be a part of so much more. I love fantasy, and like the idea of cozy fantasy. But the cozy fantasy books just fall incredibly short.
Cozy fantasy is the all-marshmallows lucky charms of fantasy books. Too much of a good thing.
lmao 💀
I love this talk on Cozy. Your fox sweater looks super cozy and super good.
Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell is one of my all-time favourites
As soon as I clicked this video I started dreaming about Redwall, and pasties. Thank you for the recommendations!
Love this. I loved Redwall as a kid. I can still taste the delicious pies, pastries, fizzes and wines served in the tapestry lined halls. I can imagine the smell of the musty cheese cellar when sneaking a piece of their famous cheese to pack in my knapsack for the next quest. The descriptions were amazing, it's the best food I've ever eaten..
Redwall is PEAK cozy
12/10 cozy recommendations nailed it. I have no idea how redwall hasn't been on more lists.
NOT snazzy vulpine sweater BUT vulpine sweater that's snazzy
i super agree with you!!! i have tried four or five "cozy fantasy" books and i just can't stand them, there are no stakes and that's what makes a story INTERESTING. i asked reddit about a month ago for some suggestions and ive been working through those, but i will be adding some of these to my list as well!
I get the cozy part, I just don't know why I would read a (whole) book about it. (Added note: I had such severe rhinitis until I was about 30 that now I'm grateful for every day that I can breathe through my nose. I DO notice!)
Thank you for making these videos. Your deep lives and suggestions are very helpful in deciding what might be entertaining. Your descriptions are very descriptive.
I found a cheap secondhand copy of The Name of the Wind recently, as well as Jonathan Strange, and the first two His Dark Materials, so looks like the universe wants me to read something cosy!
I loved The Hobbit, and the original Harry Potter books are super cosy reads for me (Dobby, and Hagrid🥰). I might have to re-read them soon.
I love the Name of the Wind.
Also, Kel Kade’s Rezkin’s series.
Sorry I have a fever, I can’t remember the name.
i always thought cozy fantasy meant a fantasy story but with much smaller tho no less important stakes. where the scope is not saving the world but rather something smaller and personal. but it should still have all the ups and downs of a story, its just whats in the ups and down is vastly different. but i could be wrong. i had to look at my bookshelves and i'm not really sure if any of them are cozy fantasy. i haven't picked up anything that's been labeled as that because well they just didn't sound interesting. i think i get cozy gothic a bit better than cozy fantasy. i'd say something like the addams family fits that idea for me. or rather that is what i personally find cozy.
My hot take is that avatar the last airbender is actually cozy fantasy even though it has really high stakes
Completely agree. Its what I feel like cozy fantasy should be. Or maybe what I wish it was? What works to make me feel cozy? Especially the third chapter. 😊
I wholeheartedly agree w this !!
When you said your criteria of what you consider cozy, i immediately thought of redwall ❤
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Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett is perfect cozy fantasy to me. Funny and wimsical with witches. What's not to like? And in this world even Death is a good guy who might stick around for a chat.
The cozy parts of ROTE are so great and so cozy, which is such a contrast to the parts that ruin your entire life. Like the contrast of the reunion at the beginning of Fool's Errand vs the end of Fool's Fate - yikes. I think the whiplash is part of why I love that series so much.
So true, the masochistic instinct that makes one read 16 of those books…🥲
I really agree with your need for an alternative "cozy fantasy" genre - I love your picks
3:05 like the Dowager said in Downtown, “what is a week end🧐”. In economics there is the concept of marginal utility and it says that even a good thing will start to lose utility after at the margins, the first bite of an apple when you have been craving it and is not the same as the 5th or the 6th one
YES Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell!! ADORE that book, and I would recommend the short story collection set in the same world, The Ladies of Grace Adeiu! Also Redwall; beautiful prose and great stories.
Man what a great video idea, I wish I had thought of it for my own channel 😂 I've had this thought so many times. Like we have cozy books we don't need a whole sub genre for it 😂
Yes! Thank you for this. I love fantasy that has "cozy" parts or elements, as you say here. And your examples are some really great books, although I spent the first half of the video thinking "Why isn't she mentioning Tolkien? Surely that's a superb example of what she's talking about?"
A lot of what makes a story cosy for me is honestly just the characters and their relationships with eachother. Like what's cosier than the end of the world but among friends??
For cosy sci-fi I highly recommend Murderbot and Ancillary Justice trilogy. There's stakes and stuff is happening while at the same time having desserts.
In line with Murderbot, I recommend all of Martha Wells' books for that, especially the Tales of the Raksura series! Truly amazing high fantasy with strong stakes and great cozy moments you can sink into
I agree, i absolutely DESPISE fall and winter!!! But, i know if we didn’t have them, i probably wouldn’t appreciate spring and summer so much! (I think i would still love it just as much but I’m being realistic 😆 )
This is such a good take, havent even gotten to the book picks yet but I agree with it so hard. Not a huge wheel of time fan but I'm hoping you've got the eye of the world on here, I've got one specific scene in mind
I love cosy mystery! Agatha Christie comes to mind. The setting and time period supply the cosy feelings and the plot keeps plenty of suspense for contrast! The perfect cosy reading, in my opinion!
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn/the Osden Ard books, by Tad Williams are also very cozy fantasy
I started reading DBC when I was recovering from surgery in the middle of a snowy winter and it was overall a very soothing read considering I was either in pain or high on pain meds.
I agree with nearly all of your picks and really appreciate the distinction you make about cozyness. I would definitely add Narnia to this, but it's so well-known it might as well be left off. So, since I've read most of these and agree about them, now you've got me putting The Name of the Wind much higher on my TBR than it was before!
hope you love NotW!
I feel like modern audiences don't get the idea of catharsis.
You really need to do more episode reviews/recaps. Your ROP recaps were so funny! Please do more like them!
I was thinking of Redwall as well, fun to see it pop up! How about Watership Down or Duncton Wood?
haven't read those, so can't say
@@LienesLibrary they are very much worth it!🙂
I want that sweater. Where I can get one? Good video
Thanks! I got it from Kiel James Patrick 🦊
@@LienesLibrary Thanks.
Pamala Dean's Tam Lin is a cozy book for me.
The video I didn’t know I needed. Jonathan Strange is actually on my November tbr. Going to check out the others on your list I haven’t read yet.
hope you love it!
Good list. I'm realizing I haven't actually read many cozy fantasy books, aside from the spellshop, like they're in my massive queue but I keep putting it off and I think you've summarized why. Rote is one of my favorites fwiw.
Edit: I like kingfisher idk if she's classified as cozy. Oops I think she is
Assassin’s Apprentice was definitely a nice cozy read when I was ill in the late fall and early winter of 2020. Name of the Wind was also a great cozy read the year before when I read it the previous winter.
Anything by Juliet Marillier is so so cozy!
I would say Riyria Revelations also counts as fantasy that's cozy.
I relate!!! I love fantasy that is cozy, but I hate all the popular cozy fantasy books like Emily Wilde and Legends and Lattes.
I agree mostly but I can also understand why certain people who live very stressful lives or are depressed may perfer cozy stories with no conflict if it let's them vicarously live a life they don't think they'll ever have.
edit: not to say all or even most cozy fantasy readers hate their lives, just saying that would be a pretty understandable reason.
Momo by Michael Ende felt so cozy for me.
The Darkness that Comes Before has cozy written all over it
I have added it to the next month's patreon poll - thanks for the rec!
Becky Chambers writes some cozy sci-fi like the Monk & Robot series and the Wayfarers series
I would LOVE to know what shelves you have in addition to the wonderful book recommendations you've given us!
I like this emphasis - I have not tried any of the books marketed as cozy, maybe I'm underestimating them but it seems like too much of a good thing risks becoming a bit meh.
The Lord of the Rings; so much there that is dark and fearful and onerous is book-ended by wondrous rest-stops where comforts and beauty are priority - course the strength of these moments have far more emphasis in Fellowship then subsequent books (save for the _long_ epilogue of Return of the King) but even in the darkest times, they steal their moments.
This is not something I can say for the Silmarillion stories however - LOL - but do read it to appreciate just how good they have it in the 3rd age!
I can easily believe Strange and Norrell is cozy because I found Piranesi overall very much so. There are dark times of course, but Piranesi's reverence for the setting he calls home is very infectious!
I find Neverending Story cozy because much of the book is a boy escaping from his problems, because we view the story as fiction there's an added buffer of (apparent) safety - then the second half is all about wish fulfillment, which also is (seemingly) all about good rewards, until it's not. On top of that, one chapter - it's somewhat episodic - is just literally cozy incarnate.
The Myst trilogy (largely about exploring, reading, writing, creativity and romance)
The Bone series of graphic novels (Disney like drawings on a grand adventure in a sleepy valley)
I think that's all I've got, but I expect good things from Charles de Lint's Newford series (or in general), Seasons of Albadone, and Terry Brook's Magic Kingdom
Why Lord Of Bones may not fit the cozy label, it does have certain wholesome elements. All of which absolutely need to be there :D
A few good cozy moments in LOTR
Great vid (par usual).
If I might add some of my alternates:
The two novellas by Patrick to complement The Name of the Wind; Never have I enjoyed (or possibly read) a "day in the life" story more.
Also, I do need to reread Good Omens (as well as "American Gods") 'cause though well loved, the novel version never hit me. Which is the drawn out way of saying, my coz-Gaiman-y read is Neverwhere.
***now, if only J.A. would write "cozy day in the life" novellas: I would devour a contemplative frolic through the woods with Dogman and friends as they discuss Life, The Universe, and the People they are about to Murder. Or, Glokta's meditations, while sharpening his tools, on Zen and the Art of Information Extraction.
Truly amazing recommendations, just added a bunch of those to my TBR. I would like to recommend that you give a try to Tress of the Emerald Sea, even though I understand that you didn’t enjoy Brandon Sanderson. It’s quite different from other Sanderson’s books and it reads mostly as a whimsical fairytale, almost as a YA. However, I find that it perfectly falls into the category of fantasy that feels cozy, as I find that the stakes are much higher than those which you would find in a typical cozy fantasy🤍
I've been known to enjoy Sanderson occasionally
A meal tasts better when you are hungry.
I couldn’t agree more!
I really dislike that “cozy” is a genre now, I’m into gaming as well and there’s this huge trend of “cozy” games. And I find that people who really hammer home on the “cozy” aspect of it are really gatekeepy. It feels like it strips away what makes a truly truly cozy thing … actually being cozy.
The hobbit, ultimate cozy read. Skyrim, totally cozy. It’s about a feel and what makes you happy. And what’s important about it is the intent of the creator, I very much don’t think they were trying to make it cozy. It’s like you say, it can’t be Christmas every day, it will lose its magic.
I’d much prefer people not tell me what is supposed to be cozy though. Or making the coziness so commercialized, that’s not cozy to me lol. How many times can I say cozy
Anyway that’s my rant and you make incredible points here.
Sounds like the old Harlequin Romances.
Yes 👏 fantasy that is cozy has substance.
David Edding's Belgariad is kind of cozy.
My cosy fantasy is Holly Black books. They're like a romcom but with fantasy and faeries and MURDER 😅 know it's not for everyone and it's YA bht YA often fills that space where there's still stakes but I know nobody is going to awfully die by exploited head like say Game of Thrones and nothing good ever happens.
Love book recommendations but… where did you get that sweater?!
Kiel James Patrick
Cosigned.
Do you know the "Summer King Chronicles" by Jess E. Owen? I think you might enjoy it. And it has cozy 🦁🦅
Amazing thumbnail 😂
Not enough air quotes. :D
One of the most cathartic reading experiences of my life was going through The First Law trilogy when my wife was dealing with a very difficult and medically complicated pregnancy. The juxtaposition of the burdens of our life with the plot of those books became an emotional outlet that let me laugh, cringe, and root for(?) the characters in much more difficult circumstances. First Law is a cozy fantasy for me. (…take that Travis Baldree)
Assassin’s apprentice is NOT cosy
lol when she was doing her intro explanation, I LITERALLY was thinking of the Robin Hobb books 😂
We get it, you don't like cozy fantasy. Stop shi** on a sub genre just because you don't like it. Not everyone needs the drama or high stakes. That's why stories like this exist and are popular. If you don't enjoy it, then don't read it. It's not any less valid then grimdark or any other sub genre. Like slice of life stories, it focuses more on emotional and every day stories or activities. It can still have a lot of plot development though. It has existed in anime and manga for a long time. It's often wholesome and just has a different focus and maybe different pacing. And I'm sorry but your examples don't fall under cozy fantasy. Robin Hobb is amazing and it's slow paced but it's not a cozy fantasy.
i´m sorry but you're repeating yourself quite a lot
apology accepted 🧡
@LienesLibrary ok
I've read The Assassin's Apprentice; it's not bad, but if you think it's dark stay away from Stephen R. Donaldson's books.
Cozy like my library. Cozy like your sweater. Not the stupid homogenized plastic wrapped peeled fruit of today's current beanie baby book
It's going to be filled by a lot of crap books for fantasy tourists. The same way that WOTC ruined official DnD appealing to gaming tourists.
Wait... breathing through both nostrils is normal? I didn't know that was possible; my nose is just ornamental, not functional.
Next time you should spent even more time on making your point...