An Idiot's Guide to Fantasy
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Last published Mon, Apr 25, 2016
Joan Evelyn Foster is dead tired of being average. Obsessed with books and fantasy worlds, she has spent way too many hours wishing a dark-haired antihero with a tragic backstory would sweep her off her feet and take her on magical quests to save the world. Isn't she a bit too old for this?
When the cliche dusty old book sucks her into its every-day run-of-the-mill fantasy world, Joan discovers that maybe the system wasn't too off when it said "the grass is greener on the other side." Now she's stuck in a land where magic isn't too magical, dragons are an endangered species, and "the chosen one" might as well have never been chosen at all. She just hopes saving the world won't take three books and a spin off this time. And who is this "dark king" everyone has been talking about?
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