It had been eight years since both The Host and Breaking Dawn were published.

Turns out, in 2016, Meyer published a novel called The Chemist.

I was like, record scratch what the fuck, no I hadn’t. “Remember Stephenie Meyer’s spy thriller?” He asked. Anyway, one of my friends pointed out that it’s been nine long years since Paolini last published a novel - though there was a collection of short fiction - and that historically writers known for one thing trying to cross over into another genre after a long publishing lacuna tend to fare poorly. I couldn’t even make it to book four because three was such an interminable Mordorian slog. There’s lots of Tolkien, some Dragonflight by McCaffrey, even some elements of Star Wars (which is totally science fantasy don’t me.) But the later books in the series just get worse and worse as he begins to believe his own hype. I’ve said this before, but: I actively enjoyed Eragon as a sort of gleeful homage slash Frankenstein’s monster of formative fantasy literature. Recently, a friend brought to my attention an article about Chris Paolini’s upcoming foray into science fiction space opera - which is code-named “TSiaSoS” ( or “The Something in a Something of Something”) - so that we could be assholes about it. Dearly, Departed – Ceridwen Anne on Warm Bodies: Romeo and Juliet Across the Grave.Dearly, Departed – Ceridwen Anne on Deck Z: Unsinkable.

Book review: Love, Lust and Zombies – Ceridwen Anne on An Elegy for New York: Zone One.Zombie Children – Ceridwen Anne on Zombie Children in The Walking Dead.28 Days Later – Two Nerds Sitting On A Couch on Zombie Children.The Last of Us: When You’re Lost in the Darkness.

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