The GameWorld Trilogy
To anyone who still reads my blog, my sincere apologies. This post has been hanging around for about 2 months, and should have been posted at least a month ago. I have nothing to excuse myself, really, but pure laziness. And a trivial thing known as board exams.
Laugh out loud funny, with references to almost everything you're ever heard of - Lord of the Rings, faint echoes of Harry Potter, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the Ramayan, King Arthur (the knights of 'Ventelot'), Robin Hood, the Illiad...Sort of like a mash up of my favourite literature and mythology, the USA of fantasy fiction.
In the end, though, it works as more than a spoof. It makes good fantasy sense, it proposes no moral absolutes (everyone is an interesting shade of grey) and it has characters I was rooting for, especially, Maya, who is the kind of interesting, smart, spunky female character I approve of. Definitely worth a quick read.
P.S. Thanks to Anurag for recommending it to me.