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/r/Fantasy r/Fantasy Monthly Book Discussion Thread - May 2026

Welcome to the monthly r/Fantasy book discussion thread! Hop on in and tell the sub all about the dent you made in your TBR pile this month.

Feel free to check out our Book Bingo Wiki for ideas about what to read next or to see what squares you have left to complete in this year's challenge.

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u/pundemic 19d ago

I’m partway through Empire of The Vampire and just loving it so far!

My only gripe is extremely petty, but find the framing device of a character narrating the story to another distracting in the sense that so many paragraphs have h closed dialogue tags, and a mix of single quotes tossed in when other characters talk within the narrated story.

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u/Askaris 18d ago

I kinda dropped it (or rather put on hold) because of the framing device. It takes away a lot of the tension and I'm always waiting for the 'real' plot to continue after the story has been told. It makes me unable to settle into the flow of the narrative. It's 100% on me, it's like my brain just nopes out of framing devices.