icebladeaskante
Dreamer
I've often heard the rule, you can only have your readers suspend their disbelief at one major point in your world. In romance novels, I suspect (not having read very many admittedly) its a set of circumstances that may seem too coincidental, but you ignore that fact and enjoy the story, in fantasy mostly it is that magic exists, and the fact that nearly all the authors I've read have tried to create laws and boundaries for the magic would support it as a general rule.
Mostly what can kill a world for me is over-explanation, as though the author is saying this world could totally exist. Yes I get it, you've created a complex believable world, but this is fantasy and as a reader while I love the idea of it being real potentially that doesn't mean you need to ignore the characters and stories to make me believe.
Though there was one series I loved, that I stopped reading because the author simply had the set of circumstance that drove the plot and series too coincidental, with little pacing. So maybe the author was asking me to suspend my disbelief in two things.
Mostly what can kill a world for me is over-explanation, as though the author is saying this world could totally exist. Yes I get it, you've created a complex believable world, but this is fantasy and as a reader while I love the idea of it being real potentially that doesn't mean you need to ignore the characters and stories to make me believe.
Though there was one series I loved, that I stopped reading because the author simply had the set of circumstance that drove the plot and series too coincidental, with little pacing. So maybe the author was asking me to suspend my disbelief in two things.