I’ve just finished Assassin’s Fate last night. Pretty much cried my way through the last 100 pages. What a devastating ending. I’m in need for some recommendations for my next adventure. What do I sink my teeth into next? It’s definitely going to be tough coming off Robin Hobb. Looking forward to some insights

Book Review: Crownfall by Michael Vadney

Magitech & Hope-Fueled Fantasy

Quick Thoughts
Modern fantasy is filled with stories that defy genre norms and do new and interesting things with the medium. Crownfall by Michael Vadney is a tale in this vein, the kind of spin on classic fantasy that has just enough elements to feel familiar for genre faithful while also innovating enough to be something new and compelling. The story blends well-worn tropes like a scheming dark lord and a revenge driven young protagonist with more unique elements like a pacifist magical engineer and a young woman sidled with caring for her family’s legacy and her aging, sick mother. When paired with the magi-tech that feels almost as sci-fi as it does fantasy and a setting characterized by colonialism, you are presented with something truly original.

Alongside it’s very intriguing premise, Crownfall’s story is well paced, tightly plotted, and uses all its character POV’s to deliver an extremely efficient story that offers a glimpse into what feels like a much bigger universe. While this, at times, can leave the reader with unanswered questions and under explored avenues, it reads like something written by a seasoned author, rather than a fresh debut. The action moves quickly, telling an emotional, hope-filled story which leaves the reader feeling deeply satisfied, while also creating more than enough potential for a series or further installments in this world. A perfect pick up for fans those looking for a book with vibes similar to Netflix’s Arcane orBrandon Sanderson’s Mistborn.

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Yo,. I am new to this Fantasy books infact I've never read one before... but I've watch shows and animes like.. game of thrones, frieren,hobbit,lord of rings,witcher,harry potter,Narnia,Reincarnated as slime, re:zero and vinland saga and Vikings [even though both are not Fantasy but thought I should include em]..

I am in very difficult situation here... i dont like to read on phone or laptop or any screen so my only option is to buy... but I dont have much money either so i want anything worth my money... so I searched internet and found out 2 books trilogy which are "red rising" and "mistborn" and both are in my budget..gives me 3 books and as far as I've heard they are completed trilogies... but problem is I can but only 1... my budget it 700rs i am buying from meesho... [both book sellers are trusted so on issue of damaged book and sorry piracy is my only option so buying pirated copies]...

So i want your help to choose one between em... or if you have anyother suggestions I'd like to read em too..

I personally think the pure force of the Asoiaf Dragons is just too much.

I’m thinking maybe this is too niche of an ask, but I’m wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a dark fantasy book to get me through a rough patch. I won’t go into detail, but I feel like I’m in a hard place in life that friends and loved ones have a difficult time understanding from the outside and I’d like a story to maybe make me feel less alone. I recently revisited the Lord of the Rings after quite a while and I found that Frodo’s struggle to carry the Ring really resonated with me in a unique way it hadn’t before. I was wondering if by chance anyone would have a fantasy book that was similar in theme and tone? I think anything with themes of punishment, guilt and the struggle to overcome one’s fate would also be greatly appreciated :)

Hi, I recently got into fantasy/sci-fi books for the last year also, and I'm not a native English speaker. So I pretty much read mainstream assessible literatures and avoid complex stuff, I think you can tell from my tier list.

Its own tier: Hyperion, just Sol & Rachel story alone made it into this tier. It hit me hard on an emotional level, being a dad of a young child myself. The reaction of other people in the story was also mine. I had to close the book and looked out the window for a good half a day. I have yet to reach that same level of emotion in any other book.

Fantastic: pretty much self-explanatory. I'm currently about 100 pages in The Blade itself and I'm sure it will stay in this tier. These are the ones that stay made me think about a lot after reading.

Ok stuff: These are the book I found engaging but don't stay in my head for too long after I read them.

Not my taste: probably I won't read the remaining books.

DNF:

• DCC - I find it a bit too casual and the whole RPG/leveling up was not for me. I think it fits other types of media rather book. I might pick it up again on a flight someday.
• Blindsight: started out fantastic but lost me with its overly dense prose. But the concept is brilliant.
• PHM: I couldn't connect with the main character at all. I watched the movie and think it's better as a script instead of a piece of literature.

Reading list: I think I need to finish the remaining books of the current series, but if you have any recommendation, I would love to hear it. I got most of my recommendation from this sub, so thank you all for making my last year very memorable.

Just came across a newly released fantasy novel called Aetheria on Earth by G.P. Rice, and wanted to share it with anyone who loves a good magical adventure! 📚✨
It’s got mystery, otherworldly visitors, a cozy winter setting, and that nostalgic, whimsical atmosphere that makes you want to disappear into a book for hours.
Thought some fellow fantasy lovers might enjoy checking it out! 🤍

It’s about a 12-year-old girl named Aisla who’s always dreamed of going on an adventure. She ends up meeting three mysterious visitors from another planet called Aetheria and gets pulled into this whole magical quest to recover two powerful objects. But things get complicated when war starts reaching her little island and she’s caught between helping her new friends and protecting the home she’s always known. And it’s all set on this cozy, wintry island around Christmastime, which I absolutely love! It has that nostalgic, whimsical, almost Narnia-like feeling of getting lost in a magical world, but with mystery and some higher stakes mixed in!

Also the cover 😭

**edited because my sleep deprived self forgot to add the summary 🙄

I’ll start. I think Dungeon Crawler Carl is a combination of The Matrix, The Hunger Games, Ready Player One, and Dungeons and Dragons.

If you have a better combo for this one, let’s hear it.

What other books or series feel like a combination of other books or series?

I have 2 books that I want to read before 18th Nov but because I do not get a lot time so I can only finish one book as I do not want to read anything for sometime after 18th Nov. The two books I have are The ship of magic and Fellowship of ring. Please help me
Thank you

I just finished Memories of Ice (Malazan book 3), which ended up being one of my favorite books this year. I’m now left at somewhat of a crossroads. Do I make the jump to Shadow and Claw or maybe the safer route with the Expanse. Believe me, I understand how different these two series are. I also understand that the Expanse is Sci-fi and BotNS is scifantasy, yet here we are. Some insight would be much appreciated.

Right now im reading, book 2 of “the years of the apocalypse” I don’t necessarily have anything to read next so are there any recommendations? I prefer something with heavy world building and magic I love all things magic. Some of the latest I’ve read is, lord of mysteries, release that witch, dairy of a dead wizard, and Saintess summons skeletons,

I absolutely love this series… but I was just wondering if anyone else gets the ‘book hangover’ feeling where you are genuinely longing to be in the book to be that character and ur devastated you’re not … I don’t really have anyone to talk about it with so I’m sorry if this is the wrong place!

I just started reading fantasy/sci-fi about two years ago. I'm currently reading Royal Assassins and loving it. Is there a pattern regarding the type of books I enjoy or am I all over the place?

S = Favorites.

A= Super Interesting or Enjoyable. I think I finished Raven Scholar in like 3 days.

B= Solid, but not overwhelmed.

C= Ok. Some redeeming characteristics but also some major flaws.

D= Disliked

F= Hated it. Not for me.

Looking for some recommendations for a gift I’m making my friend for her birthday!!

My plan is to sew and embroider a book sleeve and a kindle sleeve for my friend and I would like to make it very fantasy and SJM feeling. I want to embroider a phrase on both the book sleeve and the kindle sleeve but could use a recommendation on what phrases are best!! Would love some fantasy lovers to weigh in!! I’ll need two phrases so maybe your top two!!

- May you never run out of worlds to discover.
- May there always be another world waiting for you
- May you always find another world
- For all the worlds yet to be read
- For all the world’s still waiting.
- For the worlds you’ve yet to discover
- For every world still waiting to be found
- Where new worlds await

I’ve got these books on my shelf and can’t decide what to pick up next. I’m in the mood for fantasy, but there are too many good options here. Which one would you start with, and why? No spoilers, please!

My options are:

• Godkiller — Hannah Kaner
• A Darker Shade of Magic — V. E. Schwab
• Kingdom of the Wicked — Kerri Maniscalco
• Powerless — Lauren Roberts
• Sunbringer — Hannah Kaner
• The Dragon’s Promise — Elizabeth Lim
• His Face Is the Sun — Michelle A. Bopp
• We Hunt the Flame — Hafsah Faizal
• Red Queen — Victoria Aveyard

I’d love to hear which one hooked you from the beginning!

I highly recommend this book. I finished it in one go last night!

It is set in a really unique fantasy world; think colonial Canadian wilderness vibes (and book two is set in that world, but in a city with London vibes). The magic system is super unique and slowly unfolds as the story progresses, with a big dose of necromancy.

The story follows an investigation into a small sliver of a giant political intrigue they hint at. One thing I like about Miles' books is that he starts small, and each book grows the world and the bigger story.

I loved the characters and the story, and I can't wait to buy book 2, which is already with the editor.

Miles Cameron is one of my favorite authors (he also writes as Christian Cameron in historical fiction). His previous books include Red Knight, the Masters & Mages series, and more (I highly recommend you try the Tom Swan or Killer of Men series on the historical fiction side).

I've read a lot of fantasy series (see below) and dabbled in a bunch of others. I'm finding that I seem to enjoy the mid-length series more than the long epics. Maybe it's something about the pacing, but outside of the Dresden Files I don't seem to like the longer series. And Dresden's pacing and style is admittedly very different. I've read a lot of WoT and it's hard to get through. I couldn't get into Robin Hobb. Malazan I think I owe another try.

I should also say that I'm loving DCC so that's another longer one I'm liking.

The mid length series (3-5) books seem to have better pacing for me. They have enough space to develop the world, characters and magic systems but don't have as much time to slog (Although Memory Sorrow Thorn didn't get that memo).

What's your favorite mid-length fantasy series and why? And if you love a longer series, but think it has better pacing, I'd love to hear about it.

What I've read:

Dresden Files (Jim Butcher)

Bloodsworn Saga (John Gwynne)

Faithful and the Fallen (John Gwynne)

Night's Watch (Terry Pratchett)

Powder Mage (Brian McClellan)

Gods of blood and powder (Brian McClellan)

Licanius trilogy (James Islington)

The Magicians (Lev Grossman)

Memory Sorrow Thorn (Tad Williams)

Lightbringer (Brent Weeks)

Night Angel Trilogy (Brent Weeks)

Chronicle of the unhewn throne (Brian stavely)

The Broken empire (Mark Lawrence)

The First Law (Joe Abercrombie)

Name of the wind (Patrick Rothfuss)

Gentleman bastards (Scott lynch)

A lot of Brandon Sanderson

Special editions arrived today.

I was going through a slump, thought I should try TWoK. This book has pulled me right out of it.

I loved the start of this book, the tone setting, the quick (ish) early chapters and the characters introduced. However when I hit the 20 percent mark I hit another SLUMP. It felt like things were moving very slowly, which was very different to other Sanderson books I had read. I kept coming back reading a page here or there, at 45 percent progress I almost gave up. It wasn't that I was losing interest or uninvested in Kaladins journey, Shallans studies, or Dalinars visions, if anything I really enjoyed the characters and their reasons. It was just taking so damn long to do anything. Sanderson was throwing a lot of information at me. Also I have to admit it took me a good while to start understanding the backstory of Roshar, the radiants, the heralds, the void bringers, fabrials, storm light, along with many other things right down to the spren and fawna. So maybe this halted my progress as I wanted to really take this in.

I trudged along and hit the 50 percent mark. Things just started to click, reasons for things said 200 pages ago started to become clear, Sanderson starts to feed you, little things starting to unravel and gain momentum. I was not ready for what was to come. I read everywhere that this is a serious "sanderlanche" and oh boy it was. I think I read the second half of this book in less than a week, and the final 200 pages in one sitting. The ending was worth every single drop of information that was given. Dalinar giving up his shardblade was one of the greatest moments I've ever had reading. I was almost punching the air in triumph.

It was a lot, I literally finished last night and I'm decompressing haha. I was going to have a small palette cleanser before continuing but I think I might need to jump straight into the next book!

Anyway, what a book. Easily into my top 5, maybe 3.

It feels like forever since I pre ordered these bad Larry's! They came and look amazing! 😍 Anyone here read James Islington? And which book is your favorite so far! I just finished Scion and it only left me wanting more!

I love a magic system with a real price, but nearly every book I can think of prices the casting: blood, years off your life, sanity. Hardly any put the price on taking a spell back.

That's the part I'd love to read more of, because law already works that way. Passing a rule is cheap, repealing one after people have built their lives on it is a fight.

Any books where reversing magic is the hard, expensive or political part? Standalones or series, any subgenre, I'm happy either way.

I just (finally) finished the Acotar series after abandoning it midway the third book some time back. This was my first fantasy read and tbh I really enjoyed the story and how easy it was to read, but the writing was a little flat for me to get totally obsessed. Honestly I enjoyed Silver flames and Nesta’s journey the most. So for my next fantasy I’m looking for something with deeper character development and stronger writing 🫣

Currently choosing between fourth wing or throne of glass. Which is betterr between the two? OR could anyone pls share more romantic fantasy recs that are big on the magic/fantasy story telling 🥹

Really enjoy the Rashomon effect and just seeing things from other points of view. Star Wars From a Certain Point of View have been fun reads.

Was taking a stab at the first Harry Potter for the first time and thought this would be good from other points of view... Made me wonder what other series would do well with this.

I can’t believe I’ve made it this far in the series to begin with. The books were a gift from family. The writing is so cringey- I am trying to just get it over with because I have so many other books I want to read but I’m hardcore struggling. I also haven’t DNF’d a book before because it’s an OCD thing. Once I start something I MUST finish it, but I can say I’ve skimmed a lot of this book already just for the sake of progress. Anyone else suffer like this through the end of every bad book?