- Are the events in your book realistic or unrealistic? Could they really happen, are they fantasy, or a mix of both? Explain using specific examples from the book.
Last night I finished the book, The Winner's Crime. It is the second book in a trilogy. The book is fiction; I find myself commonly drawn to works of fiction. My book took place in a fictional world, where there is currently political unrest between the countries of Valoria, Herran, and "The East." Since these places aren't real, it obviously couldn't happen per se, but the things that happen are fairly realistic. I feel like similar things could have happened in the past. For example, Valoria is very similar to the Romans, particularly within the realm of their obsession with conquest. Much like the Valorians, the people captured by the Roman armies would become their slaves. The author clearly takes certain cultural influences from history-"the east" seems reminiscent of African grasslands in many ways.
The Valorians are also very similar to some Asian cultures-for example, their culture embraces the idea of the "honor suicide" which seems to fall along the same vein of the Japanese practice of seppuku. So while the setting of my book is one of fiction, it is of a culture that could have, in fact, developed if given the right circumstances.
