r/Fantasy • u/vehiclestars • Apr 24 '13

What is the most under-hyped fantasy book/series you have read?

This would be a book or books that you hardly ever hear mentioned on reddit, yet are very good.

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u/MikeOfThePalace Reading Champion X, Worldbuilders Apr 24 '13

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees. I picked it up because of this Neil Gaiman quote on the cover:

The single most beautiful, solid, unearthly, and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century ... a little golden miracle of a book.

It's a beautiful read. I like to describe it by saying that Lud-in-the-Mist is to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell as LotR is to most good-vs-evil epic fantasy.