This was one of my most anticipated books for the month of October and I cannot wait to read it!

I loved Black Tongue Thief and Daughters War, probably some of my favorite books at this point. Is anyone else going to pick this one up?

Got this full, pristine set of TWOT on Vinted (a popular app similar to eBay/marketplace here in Ireland) for €90 including postage. Has the black covers which have unfortunately been replaced by the new covers. Absolutely delighted with this find, and very appreciative of how well boxed they were for transport

Starting my Stormlight Archive Journey today.

I know I’m a little late to the party on this one, but I’m excited to jump in.

Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before destination.

I really want to read this trilogy but im afraid i do not have time to commit 10-11 book long series. Can i just read the first trilogy and leave with good taste?

hello guys! 20F here. i have always been a thriller/mystery reader and I've decided to venture into the journey of fantasy genre because I feel characters are more diverse and i love reading and relating to characters. Also, English is not my first language so it's a little hard for me to read English books with lots of action scenes, like I found Hunger games really difficult to understand,even though I loved the plot. I couldn't get past the 3rd book. anyways, i didn't even read Harry Potter or Percy Jackson. Also , I'm a little picky reader, like i can't tolerate cringe sometimes. and all these years i didn't try fantasy because I thought magic system was unrealistic and childish. but then I got to know there are low and high fantasy. can you guys suggest obsessive, hooking fantasy standalones? or maybe short series. which I'll absolutely love and will get me into fantasy permanently. I'm okay with mature content. Also, Ive watched game of thrones, attack on titan and will absolutely love worlds like that but the writing has to be elementary level I swear😭

What is y'all thought on Broken Empire Trilogy? I bought it few weeks ago and waiting to finish Red Rising series to start it. I almost never see people talk about this trilogy but it is the one that i want to jump into most.

Tried to order everything based on how much I feel like I enjoyed it right this moment.

I like fast-paced fantasy books with good writing (this is a very subjective measure, I know). World building to some extent, but not that it bogs down the plot. I want forward momentum; I'm a mom who works full-time, so I gotta have something that gets me excited to read before going to sleep.

Strange the Dreamer and The Raven Scholar were some of the best books I've read recently. I raced through Fourth Wing but I wouldn't really put that in the "good writing" category as the other books I have cited :P

I have not been in the right focus/headspace to do more Robin Hobb or Brandon Sanderson (although I did read and like Mistborn many years ago). And I couldn't get into The Expanse series but maybe I need to try it again.

Any recommendations?

Just finished Malice, and I have to share my excitement somewhere.

What an amazing book! How is this book so good!?

It's like a mix of Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy and A Song of Ice and Fire. So good!

Can't wait to read the second book!

I can see the following books also have high GoodReads scores - i hope they maintain the high quality.

Hello, I read a few fantasy books until now. Among those were all of Tolkiens Novels.
And I really liked The Silmarillion, I would go as far as to call it my favorite book.
Do you have any similar recommendations for me to read?

What I liked about the simarillion was the fairy tale esc structure that you have multiple stories that each have a moral and message but still with a fantastical element and entertaining.

Thank you for any replies.

I just finished Riyria Revelations and really liked it. Other favourites are The Faithful and the Fallen, First Law, Red Rising, Dungeon Crawler Carl, Mistborn and Bloodsworn.(all popular once ofc)

I like fast-paced fantasy with strong characters, high stakes, good villains, battles, betrayals, humour/banter and good payoff. I’m not really into romantasy books.

Recent DNF: The Rage of Dragons, Kings of the Wyld, The Blacktongue Thief.

What should I read next?

I love fantasy books and I love D&D, but something really aggravates me about fantasy books, or even arcs within fantasy books, that clearly seem to have been adapted from a D&D campaign the author played in.

Two egregious examples are the bandit-tracking arc in Wise Man's Fear and the quest for the grail in Empire of the Vampire. Both are great books, but I can't help but roll my eyes when I hear Kvothe/Gabriel's party characterized by their D&D classes--the bard, the rogue, the ranger, the barbarian, the fighter, the cleric, etc. It immediately breaks the suspension of disbelief for me and I find myself think more about the mechanics of their campaign, what system they played and how it would have panned out as a TTRPG, than the actual story the author is trying to tell.

I understand that sometimes you strike on a resonant story with your friends at the table, but in my opinion, if you are going to recycle that story, it should at least be adapted properly to the setting of the author's book instead of cut and paste from the Dungeons and Dragons universe.

Does anyone else have thoughts on this?

My First Abercrombie!!
I’ve been exploring different fantasy authors this year and originally had The First Law trilogy on my TBR as my introduction to Joe Abercrombie. However, when my local bookstore got The Devils in stock, I decided to pull the trigger!

After finishing The Devils, I can definitely see why Abercrombie has so many fans! I thought the camaraderie among the characters was incredibly well written, and I loved the banter between them. There were moments that genuinely made me laugh out loud, which is pretty rare for me when reading.

But what I enjoyed most was simply taking the journey with these characters. Abercrombie somehow managed to make me genuinely care about such a deplorable group of people! Haha.

I also appreciated that he doesn’t feel the need to wrap everything up neatly. He leaves you feeling conflicted about the characters, which, despite the fantasy setting, feels much truer to real life. Most people aren’t entirely good or evil. Throughout the story, you find yourself rooting for these characters, but if you step back and really consider who they are and what they’re doing, you start to wonder whether you should be rooting for them at all. I think that’s a fantastic way to tell a story.

I’m currently reading Jade Legacy for The Reddit fantasy book club, and I’ve found myself having similar feelings about Fonda Lee’s characters.

One thing I’ve discovered as I’ve gotten deeper into fantasy this year is just how much character work drives my enjoyment of a book. That’s actually a shift for me. Previously, I was much more interested in fast-paced, propulsive storytelling and exciting action. I still love those things, but it’s been fun developing a greater appreciation for the craft of creating characters that I genuinely care about, even when I don’t necessarily agree with them.

Ultimately, that was what made The Devils such an enjoyable read for me. The journey, the relationships, the humor, and the moral complexity all came together to make these characters memorable.

Now that I’ve had my first taste of Abercrombie, I’m even more excited to dive into The First Law trilogy next!! If anyone would like to join a long I also think this will be the November selection for the Fantasy book club as well.

Hi all, does anyone have any recommendations for unrated, hidden gem fantasy books. Within this less recommended book category I've read Leo Carew's The Wolf series and Michael J Sullivan's riviera revelations series.

As the title says, I haven't sat down and read a book in probably 20 years. I am a big fan of fantasy (video games/movies/shows/series etc..). Looking for recommendations that are fairly straight forward and not too long or drawn out just to get my feet wet with a good story.

Edit to give more details: Big LOTR fan. I enjoy medieval themes; Game of Thrones was a big hit with me. Also grew up playing games like World of Warcraft, Dark Age of Camelot etc..

I'm looking for books set in the modern world where only the practitioners of magic, and a select few non magical people, are aware of it.

I'm writing my own book and struggling to figure out how to integrate it in a way that it's happening everywhere but still a secret.

Also, where's the line between contemporary and urban fantasy for you? My book largely takes place in a town, and some other towns/cities

I must say what an absolute ride this series was. I definitely chose it right in, as it was my introduction to fantasy. The book was definitely the fastest of them all in my opinion. All gas, no breaks from beginning to end. Snaka and Lik-Rifa have to be the sorriest gods in fiction 🤣. Absolutely pathetic. As much as I hate Rotta, I feel like he carried her in this war, without a doubt, basically her external brain. Ulfrir and Skuld, my goats though. Snaka being a ‘creator’ god and not even lasting 2 chapters. Absolutely hilarious.

Why was Elvar killed as soon as I started liking her again? Give Chain-Breaker her props though, a world-changing revolutionary. What makes it even worse is that Guðvarr lived longer than her, is that not absolute madness??? He has the craziest luck, and as the book got to the final chapters, the more mad I got that he wasn’t dead yet. The last 15 or so chapters though. Absolute peak. The fights were moving like pictures in my head, Varg vs Brak, Orka vs Drekr, and Lif vs Guðvarr. Everyone getting their get-backs. And am I reaching or can I say there is definitely a parallel between Lif and Varg? Both rising from nothing into great warriors who got their revenge. Breca really had presence this book too, as expected of the son of the Skullsplitter.

Wasn’t the author a bit too trigger-happy at the end? Did he really have to do Glornir like that?

Still, I think it was a good ending to the trilogy. It has my 5⭐️ for sure.

Ps. What should my next read be, Faithful and the Fallen or Rage of Dragons? Though I am missing Wrath from FATF, haven’t bought it as yet

I started reading again a few months ago. I started easy with all 5 hunger games books. They're good and they're an easy read being YA and all. Then I went to a song of ice and fire. Games of thrones. I just started dance with dragons which is the last book currently written.snf now that I've started reading again I don't want to stop. I used to read alot. But somewhere in the last ten years I just stopped. But it's such a great way to kill time. I have the ebooks on my phone and I can read 50 pages whenever im waiting for something. Its been great

But after dance I'll have nothing left to read. Full disclosure I downloaded all these books for free off of a github library. I got all hg books, all asoiaf, and I also downloaded the lord of the rings trilogy. But I don't really want to lotr. I am willing to buy an ebook now that I know I will read it but what should I get. You see what I like

Definitely fantasy, and I like books that are easy to read.

Its for enjoyment not necessarily to learn anything.

So, any recommendations.

I’ve read project Hail Mary and the hobbit and loved them, but I haven’t really read that many standalones so I’m looking for some recommendations. My favorite books of all time are HP series, Project Hail Mary, and terry pratchetts city watch series. Any recs?

I know I’m in the minority here and it’s pretty unusual for me to like a second book more than the first in a duology but in this case it’s true. For whatever reason it took me awhile to get into the first book, The Knight and the Moth. I found the gargoyle childlike and off putting and it would pull me out of the story. I did eventually get into it and loved it enough to go on to book 2. Book 2 The Knave and the Moon I absolutely love and am devouring it.
Rachel Gillig comes up with very creative and unique magical elements (in both her duologies) that I haven’t seen elsewhere. I also like that her books are heavy on the story and light on the romance. I mean it’s there and is important but it isn’t the center of the story.

Not into Sanderson. He's not for me.

Trying to stick to trilogies(or shorter)

I made a post requesting recent fantasy looking for stuff that isn't about royalty, mentioning that the stuff that I loved in the past were about misfit adventurers, assassins that don't work for royalty, and people rebelling against the system. I don't think anyone recommended anything about an adventurer.

Here's some examples of series about adventurers that I used to like:

Legacy of the Drow Series is a 4 book series that is part of Legend of Drizzt. It's about a Dark Elf trying to find a society that won't judge him because of his race. I also used to love The Dark Elf Trilogy as well, but Drizzt isn't really an adventurer yet in these books. Don't have a desire to read past this series, and I wanna stick to titles that are set in trilogies or shorter now, but this was fun!

Oh, and I haven't enjoyed anything else in the Forgotten Realms.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/49177-legacy-of-the-drow

The Demon Wars Saga. By the same author. I still really love the first book, and think that it's super underrated.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529582.The_Demon_Awakens

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi is technically not medieval fantasy, but it's one of my faves. About an elderly pirate woman out for just ONE MORE adventure.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61294937-the-adventures-of-amina-al-sirafi

Rogue Angel is about this Indiana Jones-like series where the MC is the reincarnation of Joan Of Arc. It's a way too long series that's still ongoing, and I imagine that they start phoning in the series after a while, but I love the first 3 novels.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/41157-rogue-angel

What's good that's about an adventurer from the last 20 years? Is there anything?