Tag: fantasy book recs

• More Fantasy Short Stories in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Sword of Destiny

  Another day, another Witcher novel to immerse myself in. Sword of Destiny is another short story collection within Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher world set at the eve of the main overarching story plot, Blood of Elves. I cannot say much more on that matter as I have not read Blood of Elves, but with how Sword…

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  April 12, 2025

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• Something is Brewing in Penn Cole’s Spark of the Everflame

  I was generously gifted Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole in a book swap earlier this year, and I have finally dug into it and come out the other side thoroughly pleased. This is a four-book romantasy series that has taken BookTok and Bookstagram by storm, competing with other big name romantasies in both…

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  April 9, 2025

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• A Happily Ever After in Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales

  A charming conclusion in the joyous, sweet, cosy fantasy that is Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wildes Compendium of Lost Tales. There is magic on ever page, conflicts that muddy the waters, and interactions that leave you guessing what Emily will do. Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales is a fitting conclusion to this light academia series…

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  April 8, 2025

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• The Last Wish – Andrzej Sapkowski’s Masterful Witcher Beginnings

  We all know and love Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher – whether you’ve played the video games or watched the Netflix series – and his novel series is the root of that glorious fantasy world. The Last Wish is the first published novel in the series, set before the action of Blood of Elves, and it…

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  April 5, 2025

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• The Gentleman Bastard Sequence – The Best Adult Fantasy Series To Date

  I have been reading The Gentleman Bastard Sequence by Scott Lynch over the last six months, and I honestly feel like my perception of fantasy and writing has changed thanks to his works. From the filthy Camorr origins in The Lies of Locke Lamora, to the deadly swashbuckling adventures of Red Seas Under Red Skies,…

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  February 22, 2025

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• Scott Lynch’s The Republic of Thieves – The Finale You’ve Been Waiting For

  This review has been a long time coming. I made my first The Republic of Thieves post in October 2024, stating what I hoped to see in the book when I finally got to reading and completing it. Well, almost three and a half months later I have done it. I have read Scott Lynch’s…

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  February 14, 2025

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• The Cosy Fantasy Continues in Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

  Dipping back into the adorable light fantasy romance world of Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries, this time with the sequel Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands. This time the drama is escalating, the tension is rising, and Emily and Wendall are at the centre of not only an iconic mystery, but a discovery…

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  February 10, 2025

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• Immortal Longings – Chloe Gong’s First Adult Fantasy

  Chloe Gong’s first adult fantasy novel Immortal Longings is the start of an adult political fantasy trilogy which tackles the Shakespeare tragedy Antony and Cleopatra. Blending historical elements with oriental detail and layers of political fantasy intrigue, it is bloody, ruthless, and seeped in revenge. Romantasy readers – you best lend your attention here for…

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  December 2, 2024

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• My All Souls Trilogy Review

  Possibly my favourite historical fiction fantasy series ever, the All Souls Trilogy had me hooked from A Discovery of Witches and refused to let me go until I closed the back cover of The Book of Life. Deborah Harkness has created a magnificent. richly detailed, layered story world with incredible characters and conflicts that feel…

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  November 9, 2024

  adult fantasy, dark academia, Historical Fiction

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• R.F. Kuang’s The Poppy War – High Fantasy With All The Good Parts

  R.F. Kuang’s The Poppy War is a novel I cannot forget, not only in its narrative plot, but in its strong characters, intense political setting, and the touches of historical inspiration and imagery. It is the adult fantasy that made me reconsider my preferences in fantasy, shifting from YA to the more gritty, more layered…

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  October 14, 2024

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