Feeding the Fire

[akirlu]

So, I'm on like Page 2 of a third world fantasy, and the author is establishing the grinding poverty and hardship being endured by the protagonist in this mountain village and how she can't even really afford fuel for her heating stove, and so the money she's being offered would really help... And what is this (presumably cheapest available) fuel she needs to buy to heat her hovel in the mountains? Peat. No, seriously: peat. So. Much. No.

Yeah, I may still convince myself to buy the full book in order to support the author, but I'd rather be buying it out of enthusiasm for the book.

Comments

[seawasp]

Er... Big extensive mountain bogs with peat? That she can't get herself?

IT COULD HAPPEN!

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Big, inaccessible, mountain bogs with peat guarded by ferocious mountain beasts....

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Isn't coffee grown in the mountains? Maybe it's Peet's coffee.

I'll shut up now.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Nope nope nope.