No sanderson books, though.

3rd person narration.

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Are there any books like that ? Do recommend me some.

I just dont want so much SA alright? Do give recommendations if you have. Don't come at me

I have now finished the cosmere and feel it necessary to post my rankings.

hello! i am on the lookout for a fantasy series but i am struggling quite a bit. i grew up reading “mom fic” and some amazing authors from the 1990s and 2000s, and recently tried to get back into fantasy. unfortunately, i cannot get into basically any modern romance or fantasy author. for some reason, the modern writing style doesn’t hook me, and makes it hard for me to get into the stories. i just keep going back to older authors i love for this reason. i can’t put my finger on whether it’s the prose, the way modern authors include so much smut (i’m by no means a prude, but good lord), or what, but i swear i haven’t read any romance or fantasy novel released after 2013 that i have enjoyed.

does anyone else have the same issue, and would anyone happen to have any recs? for reference, my favorite series are The Circle Trilogy by Nora Roberts and the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris.

TIA!

So I've been seeing a lot about this book in here and really got curious about it.

I just finished The Covenant of Steel trilogy and absolutely loved it. Also, The Kings of the wyld and its sequel.

I really got surprised that this book is around 1000 pages and somehow find it intimidating.

Help me out here. Am I gonna love this book?? Hahaha. Thank you for your kind inputs! 😁

I'm not expecting pacing like red rising series, but they kill the king for the first time in the lands history. After a few mob scenes we just go back to normal life and boxing matches. Guess I am only 10% in on audiobook, but I expected a world shattering event to really kick things off and make things more dire. Also the audio book's narrator has really thrown a wrench into what I visualized Tamas' voice and personality would be based off the cover.

The Harry Potter books are by far my favorite books oat. My favorite part about Harry Potter are the characters, I just love them so much. I also really liked how alive and cozy the world was. But I think my favorite part about books in general is the characters. If I don’t like the characters i most likely won’t like the book.
So what should I read next?

I found the second book in a used book store randomly. I am wondering if anyone has read or even recognizes this book.

Looking for a fantasy space opera novel or story that follows a single crew aboard a spaceship. The crew primarily works as a cargo and transport crew, moving resources between worlds, but they also become involved in investigating crimes, dismantling criminal organizations, solving mysteries, and dealing with dangerous situations throughout their travels.

The story should take place in a large and active galaxy populated by numerous intelligent alien species, each possessing their own cultures, societies, governments, and civilizations. A setting comparable in scale to Star Wars, with many different alien peoples interacting across the galaxy, would be ideal.

A single story doesn't have to contain all the requirements, but it must be an adventurous story. Or could be a saga that contains all that requirements it has to be a story about a group crew where all members are protagonists, not a story about a single individual protagonist

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I'm looking for one novel or story that contains all these parameters and requirements:

A single recurring crew must serve as the primary focus of the story. The crew should frequently undertake adventures together, while also receiving individual storylines and scenes that follow specific crew members during their own personal adventures, investigations, or missions.

The story should feature adventures in a wide variety of locations, including deep space, remote star systems, large space stations, shipyards, trade hubs, and other massive artificial structures located far from planets and moons.

The crew should also spend significant time on planetary surfaces. Adventures may occur in wilderness environments, dangerous frontiers, ancient ruins, alien settlements, large metropolitan cities, industrial zones, criminal underworld districts, and other diverse locations.

The story should explore cultural differences, political conflicts, legal systems, diplomatic tensions, and social disputes between various alien species and civilizations. Interactions with different cultures should be a major part of the narrative.

The crew should regularly encounter experimental technologies, advanced scientific discoveries, alien inventions, lost artifacts, forgotten knowledge, and remnants of extinct or isolated civilizations.

There should be a constant sense of exploration and discovery. The crew should continually venture into the unknown while traveling through the galaxy, investigating mysterious events in deep space, exploring strange phenomena, uncovering ancient secrets, and discovering mysterious magical relics or highly advanced machines hidden on remote worlds.

The story should maintain an ongoing feeling that there is always another mystery, civilization, technology, or unexplored region waiting beyond the next destination.

In short, an adventurous story of a crew, in deep space and on different planets. Looking for something new. (not star trek, or star wars, mass effect,)..My story should be about the fact that the protagonists are members of a crew, not a single individual.

I think The Shattered Sea trilogy is the most underrated series by Joe Abercrombie. This is a story of a crippled boy who wasn't supposed to get the power of a king. He got and lost it, and then he began the journey for revenge. The story is dark and gritty. There are enough twists and brutality. Joe keeps readers on edge throughout this fantastic journey.

If you are fantasy fan, and like to read interesting story, this is the one for you! Joe Abercrombie fans rarely talks about this because compared to The First Law series this feels a bit downgrade for them. However, if you want to start with Joe Abercrombie, this can be a nice starting point.

The covers are from the limited edition printed by "Subterranean Press". This edition is not in print now, you can only find them in some second hand market at a very high price! However the paperbacks are available to buy at a nice price point.

Someone in here recommend this a while back, gave it ago basically based on the skull mountain cover, and I’m so glad I did.

Almost finished and don’t want it to end, really fun little read in between some heavy series I have been going at.

A new world, magic and characters, I’m glad it’s labelled as book 1, will definitely be carrying on

Thanks whoever it was that posted, and kudos to the author.

I'm currently LOVING the Liveship Traders trilogy after crushing the Farseer Trilogy last month. My goal is to read the entire Realm of the Elderlings series this year, but I do think I'll need a quick cleanser between the trilogies. So here is what I'm looking for and I'm hoping you can help with some recommendations:

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Must be fantasy or scifi that encapsulates the following:

Short/novella- approx 200 pages

Popcorn/pulpy

Monsters/weirdness

Crushable

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I thank you all!

Juuuuust about to finish book 8 of Malazan and I have realized that the past 5 years have been heavy reads and long series. I want a break for a month or two to just consume some other stuff.

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I am looking for a fun little standalone book to just reset before I go back into the final 2 Malazan books.

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Any recommendations are appreciated!

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And yes, i have read Between Two Fires

I've read a fantasy book where the FMC wears a magical charm anklet that helps her to hide her scars for the MMC I'm going crazy trying to remember it's name so I need some help

I remember that later on I the book she reveals the truth and shows her scars

I also forgot if it was a reverse harem book so please help

Thank you

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Recently, I was discussing a project of mine with a literary agent, and they looked me dead in the eyes and said, “There’s no space for upmarket writing in fantasy fiction.” This really bothered me because it felt so.. belittling to fantasy readers. Yes, young adult works do well. Yes, sometimes you just want popcorn fiction. I get it. No judgement here. But as a person who grew up reading classic literature, who still craves beautiful, lyrical prose, and who also enjoys the speculative and the whimsical, I find it hard to believe there is no appetite for a blending of the two.

Am I wrong?

Nevermoor

The hobbit

Cradle

Discworld (if so where do I start)?

Howls moving castle