This has triggered a reaction of suspicion from the unmagical populace not unlike the popular prejudice against mutants in the X-Men films. Crewe’s wizards, by contrast, have declared themselves to the world as a direct consequence of the 9/11 attacks and come out to help defend their country. However, for all the ruin wrought at Hogwarts, Rowling’s world still sits almost invisible alongside our own “real” world. Where Rowling has quaint “muggles,” Crewe has the more dismissive “dulls” where Rowling has the “Ministry of Magic,” Crewe has the more sinister “Confed” where Rowling has derogatory “mudbloods” to set against her wizard born, Crewe has a more classist “new magic” versus “old magic.” Yet like the Harry Potter series – with which Ruthless Magic shares some significant resonances – it still has appeal for a more traditional fantasy audience.Ĭrewe has imagined a world like Rowling’s, where a caste of humans with the capacity for magic live within our contemporary society. Megan Crewe’s book – with its teenage protagonists, budding romance and eschewing of expletives – sits firmly on the Young Adult shelves. Read more about its origins here, and check out the current finalists’ scoreboard here. SPFBO – aka the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off – is a contest organised by Mark Lawrence with the aim of celebrating the best amongst – you guessed it – self-published fantasy. Munro has stepped in on behalf of The Fantasy Hive to help out with the final stages of SPFBO 4!
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