The Wandering Inn
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Pros
- The Wandering Inn is coming out physically next month too.
- Currently the story is 16,858,759 words long. In audiobook format this will ultimately be around 1,861 hours. 25 hours is 1.3% of that. Again, not a joke. It’s awesome, to be clear, but not a joke.
- I’ve been a huge fan of TWI for a while, and I noticed a couple major business-side milestones over the years. The first was when you started allowing audio to be made and the second is happening right now, which was allowing a trad rele...
- As a narrator, I’ve narrated many kinds of stories and TWI is a gift in so many ways. Thank you for writing it. Just going through the comments and questions here really shows the depth of love that so many people have for your story
- You want long? The Wandering Inn.
Cons
- I really like TWI, but the time scale is one of the worst parts. Liscor alone has suffered multiple apocalypse-level events in fewer than five years... It makes no sense for anyone to live there. Yes, bad things happen to other places in...
- I was under the impression that it was [cozy fantasy]. I was told its not like other fantasy books with heroes and quests and stuff like that. I guess it isnt exactly. But it has trauma and grief and sad things happen. The main character...
- The series' epic scope means our protagonists sometimes step back for long stretches while other storylines take the spotlight — which makes sense given how much the story has grown... That said, I think many readers feel disappointment...
- Since Volume 10, you've cut down to one chapter a week, and have been focusing more on larger arcs instead of one-off chapters. This means we can go months a time without seeing certain POV's.
- I *like* the series and I still have to complain a lot about those shortcomings. I'm more worried about physical editions because the series is an unwieldy nightmare in terms of size.
Sentiment
7 positive (44%) · 7 mixed (44%) · 2 negative (13%)
Trust + time weighted score: +35% · raw score 31%
What redditors said (10 of 16)
The Wandering Inn is coming out physically next month too.
I really like TWI, but the time scale is one of the worst parts. Liscor alone has suffered multiple apocalypse-level events in fewer than five years... It makes no sense for anyone to live there. Yes, bad things happen to other places in the story, but Liscor specifically requires suicidal levels of self-preservation to even consider staying.
Currently the story is 16,858,759 words long. In audiobook format this will ultimately be around 1,861 hours. 25 hours is 1.3% of that. Again, not a joke. It’s awesome, to be clear, but not a joke.
I was under the impression that it was [cozy fantasy]. I was told its not like other fantasy books with heroes and quests and stuff like that. I guess it isnt exactly. But it has trauma and grief and sad things happen. The main character is not in a good place mentally a lot of the time. She goes through horrible things.
I’ve been a huge fan of TWI for a while, and I noticed a couple major business-side milestones over the years. The first was when you started allowing audio to be made and the second is happening right now, which was allowing a trad release of your work.
As a narrator, I’ve narrated many kinds of stories and TWI is a gift in so many ways. Thank you for writing it. Just going through the comments and questions here really shows the depth of love that so many people have for your story
The series' epic scope means our protagonists sometimes step back for long stretches while other storylines take the spotlight — which makes sense given how much the story has grown... That said, I think many readers feel disappointment that we don't see our protagonists as much as we did in the earlier volumes when it hooked us. That feeling seems especially strong in Volume 10, where the arcs feel conclusive but feel fairly isolated from one another, which adds to a sense that the story isn't moving forward as much as it could be.
Since Volume 10, you've cut down to one chapter a week, and have been focusing more on larger arcs instead of one-off chapters. This means we can go months a time without seeing certain POV's.
You want long? The Wandering Inn.
I *like* the series and I still have to complain a lot about those shortcomings. I'm more worried about physical editions because the series is an unwieldy nightmare in terms of size.
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