As long as ‪they appear to understand geography and hydrology.

Me I am the writer that does that >:)

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Why thank you

I absolutely LOVE it when that happens! ❤️ I'll spend some time, looking at everything and reading all the names - using the key. Then I'll refer back to it whilst reading! What luck! To which book are you referring?

The Eragon series comes to mind but also my current read, the way of kings by brandon sanderson !!:)

One of my favorite things when reading fantasy books. I could follow the characters' journeys by referring to the map

YESS it’s magical :D doing that rn

Hell yeah ^.^ I really enjoy just pinpointing where the characters are at certain parts and feel immersed in the story

Silmarillion vibes!!

Books like these are why I'm a cartographer. Tolkien, Eddings, Feist... If a book had a map at the front I was all over it when I was a kid! I even made my own atlas of fantasy worlds full of maps photocopied from books I'd read. I wish I still had it! ❤️ #maps

If I see a family tree, I just return it immediately 🤣

LMAO real that’s getting intense

Except you can never read them on ebooks 😡

Unless you are on a kindle, where they are unreadable.

Opposite reaction: when the book has an enormous glossary at the end you have to keep flipping back to to look up some trivial word (looking at you, Dune)

omg i have the dune collection as my next read hehehe

With cool fonts

the cool fonts omg !!!!

My upcoming release has both a (small) map at the beginning and a character list at the end!

Ha be funny to do this but have a map of some mundane place. Like Kettering.

Not a map, but bookmarks with all the characters and a short description for particularly epic historical novels with a cast of thousands (this one in Spanish)

Just me: as long as there are no Elvish songs, I’m good. Clearly not my genre.

Always a skip for me. I have zero name context for the locations before reading. But as the book progresses, I can follow along with the journeys as a reference.

fair, i find it overwhelming at first sometimes as i know nothing about the lore or terrain but it gives me an indication that it’ll probably be a large immersive world and i crave that :3 i love using it as a reference for the journey! doing that in my book rn

I am in no position to offer advice, but since you mentioned you are creating one for your own book, I will say that I always place a lot of value on the legend of the map. It can make or break a map reading experience, in my opinion.

I like them, don't get me wrong. I just have never looked more deeply than perhaps a general glance of names and locations, prior to reading. Once I'm in the world, I absolutely love to reference them.

Oooo which you reading? ^_^

the way of kings by brandon sanderson:)

Oh nice I just got his mission series! First time reading any of his work :)

omg exciting i haven’t read that one!! :D hope u like it

Oops its autocorrected mistborn 😅 Hope you like yours too!

I love a map and a family tree. ❤️👍🏻

Give me a family tree in a nice foldout, and you've got me hooked for the duration.

And you’ve got to study it for ages before you know what your looking for

I love the maps. I don't actually read them more than like twice, but it's nice to know that there's some good world building in here.

And family trees 🥰

This makes me fall in love with the book

Don't forget when they include a list of characters

Jo Nesbo. Harry Hole.

Only if it has areas marked, like, Fell Marches and Woods of Lone Despair tho

I’m a big fan of the maps!! 🙌

Agreed, love that stuff it's why I'm re-releasing my book to include a large map.

In a way, it's kind of a spoiler. Some clever author should do what video games do and just keep revealing a little more of the map as the character gets there. Like the map gets a little bigger in each chapter.

imagine if you first see the map with a bunch of artistic clouds over it…and then it slowly uncovers… that would be amazing

W-w… warrior ca- *gets shot*

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HELL FUCKING YES WE DOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

All in for maps. Never enough.

When the book has a glossary of name pronunciation at the back

Ok on this. Can we have a book where the map folds out from the back cover, so we can read and look at the map for reference?

GOOD IDEA!!!

A 514 page book but the first 512 pages are just one huge folded up map.

LOLOLOL

heaven

This works for both arctic and antarctic survival stories. Owing to the lack of permanent recognizeable features in ice, there's almost always a map of recorded positions before and after their ships were trapped and crushed.

Oh man, that feeling is unbeatable! Seeing a huge map before chapter one just tells me I’m about to get completely lost in a new world. I already know I’ll be flipping back to it constantly, pretending I actually know my way around like a seasoned traveler.

I love maps in fiction books. It really helps me place were everything is in my mind better. If there is no map I have a hard time visualizing as most stories jump all over the map.

Check this out. A map that folds out so you don't have to keep flipping back. 😍

this is so awesome, it gets so annoying to flip back and forth

This book is from 1935. WHY DID WE STOP DOING THIS PEOPLE!!!

Someone probably burned the rest and we forgot... 😭