I’m thinking the OP is getting the genre mixed up
Maybe they meant like gritty fantasy or something lol
Seems like they’re ranting about George RR Martin more than Gabo
Stuff like The Dresden Files or Vampire: the Masquerade is usually called Urban Fantasy, tho, and we still call Gambo Thrones fantasy.
Magical realism has a certain literary, postmodernist bent that’s kinda distinctive from that, even if the category is too broad to be useful.
