Genres: Fantasy
Tailored Realities – Brandon Sanderson
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This is a collection of short fiction that Sanderson has written over the decades. Some of it has been seen published in various magazines or online, but some of it is seeing it’s first publishing. All of the stories were good, and a few were great. This spans both fantasy and science fiction. You can
The Girl and the Galdurian – Tim Probert
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Beatrice must find her father, the pig wizard, who has wandered off to fix some seal. The problem is that he’s old and getting more and more forgetful so she’s worried he made the whole thing up and is out in the world lost. Luckily she meets Cad, the last known Galdurian, who matches her
The Poisoned King – Katherine Rundell
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This is the second installment in the Impossible Creatures set of books. Here we find Jacques has escaped the Archipelago to find Christopher because dragons are dying. Christopher must get back in to the magical land without his Grandfather catching him on the way in then figure out what is killing the dragons. He also
Impossible Creatures – Katherine Rundell
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If you think all the magical creatures in the world were myth, you’ve fallen for the same protection magic that the rest of the world has. Christopher however is different. All the animals love him and after a trip to his Grandfather’s he finds out he’s from a line of guardians that guard the portal
Among the Burning Flowers – Samantha Shannon
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This is the prequel to both A Day of Fallen Night and Priory of the Orange Tree and while the story is good, I’d say it’s only worth reading if you’ve read both the other books and want to dig more into the history of the world that the author has built. Here we follow
The Prison Healer – Lynette Noni
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Here we meet Kiva, who was taken to prison because her father was seen near a rebel. After her father dies in prison Kiva becomes an assistant healer and then takes her father’s place as a healer in the notorious Zalindov prison, which is used by all the countries around as a place to send
A Witch’s Sin – Daniel B Greene
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Welcome to a world of technology embedded in your body, where ads can blare at you at any time and an open window means you’ve granted permission for a drone to broadcast further ads into your personal living space. In this world we meet Taya, and learn that there are honest to goodness vampires. Taya
Temeraire – Naomi Novik
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While this book was recommended to me (from a source I can’t remember) as an excellent fantasy novel that added dragons to the war between Britain and France during Napoleon’s time, I can’t continue that recommendation. The book is decently written if you want multiple pages on the etiquite difference between the Navy and the
Wildwood Imperium – Colin Meloy
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This is the third book in the Wildwood Chronicles and we pickup shortly after the events of the third book where Prue and the residents of Wildwood banded together to thwart the plans of the former Queen. Well a young girl dabbling in magic she doesn’t understand ends up reawakening her as a living ivy
Onyx Storm – Rebecca Yarros
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This book is much slower for the first 2/3rds than the first two are. The world now knows about the real fight against Venin, and has some type of truce between formerly warring nations to push back the true enemy of all life, the Venin who steal magic directly from your body or the earth.
