The one thing I've heard from everyone who's read "Saga of The Wild Hunt" is how much it reminds them of Harry Potter. I remember how the first person who made notes on Chapter 7 - A Ghostly Quarrel kept going on about how the upcoming house selections would be too similar to Harry Potter and the sorting hat until they weren't and they were like "Oh, it's not like Harry Potter."
I'm not going to lie, I did use the world of Hogwarts to inspire my classes and some aspects of the world, but despite the popularity of of Harry Potter while I was growing up, I only read the whole series recently, during the Covid-19 lockdowns (I was heavily into David Eddings when Harry Potter was still being released) and that was more to figure out how to reengage the reader at the beginning of every book as I began to write the sequel, continuing Saga's first year in the Nine Realms.
Even now that I've got the sequel back from my amazing editor, there were a lot of Harry Pooter comments, even going to far to ask if the series is ultimately a Harry potter fanfiction (it's not!) Magic is not the focal point, even if there are multiple systems of magic in the world of Toserra Sorose. This series is far more about mythology, Norse primarily in Saga of The Wild Hunt, but with Vampires, Werewolves (and various other shapechangers), faeries and Angels, I'll go wherever the story takes me. In the next story, there'll be daemons, mermaids, selkies, tengu, yokai, even Kami and a particular God of the Underworld, known for his favourite three headed dog.
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