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As a bookworm, the thing that I enjoy reading most, besides fantasy, is historical fiction. I’ve always had a fondness for history and, for me, reading books which take place in historical settings is just as magical as exploring carefully constructed secondary worlds. Much of fantasy is based on history, in some way or another. Writers pull from this and that time period, mesh things together to create settings, or loosely base plots on historical events. But they’re still worlds that they’ve constructed; new worlds, with new rules, and new peoples living in them. What if you wanted to read about Catherine de Medici using dark magic to rule France in the mid-sixteenth century, and the good witches that battle against her evil ways? Well, that would be where historical fantasy comes in.
What is historical fantasy? Well, unlike a lot of fantasy, which takes place in made up worlds…
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