Fantasy Books (Top Ten Tuesday)

By Brookelorren on 48 Comments

Hello! Time for another Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl)! Today we’re talking about books from our favorite genre. I like all sorts of books, but I tend to read a lot of fantasy books, so we’re going to go with that (although dystopian might be making a comeback soon, so there’s that). This week, I’m picking five fantasy books (or series) that I love, and five that I’m looking forward to reading.

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An Ember in the Ashes Quartet – Sabaa Tahir

I’m looking forward to reading the final book in this series next year, but for now, this series belongs up here. I read these three (long) books in three days. They were difficult to put down! I originally got the first two books from the library, but then I had to own the set (even though they don’t match, because one’s Kindle, one’s paperback, and one’s hardback).

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Shadowhunter’s Books – Cassandra Clare

I love these books! I guess this would belong in the upcoming release books too, because we have Chain of Gold to look forward to next March, but these definitely belong on this list. I’m also getting Ghosts of the Shadow Market today, which I’m excited for. They’re shipping via UPS (which typically arrives later at my house than the post office) so I guess I’ll be reading something else until it arrives.

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The Young Elites Trilogy – Marie Lu

Of course this one had to make my list. I adore Magiano and Adelina! Even though Adelina is evil. I really need to finish the fanfic I started writing telling this series from Magiano’s POV (which will continue on and will have a happier ending). This is my first week as a full-time writer/homeschooler, so I should have more time to work on it now!

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Flame in the Mist Duology – Renée Ahdieh

I was originally going to put the Grisha Verse books in here, but then I realized “didn’t I talk about all these books last week?” so I decided to throw in something new instead. This might be the first fantasy book I read based in a medieval Japan like place, and I loved it! I couldn’t stop thinking about it while I was at work.

I wasn’t sure about reading Ms. Ahdieh’s new book about vampires, but I got the chance to read the beginning of The Beautiful the other day, and it was really good, so I’ll probably read that one too.

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The Cruel Prince Trilogy – Holly Black

This book had me hooked from the first page! I love Holly Black’s writing. I can’t wait until The Queen of Nothing comes out later this year! Yes, I know Jude and Cardan don’t really have the model relationship, but they’re not exactly model citizens themselves. I couldn’t put down the first two books in this series and think I finished them the day they came out.

New Books I’m Looking Forward To!

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I’m really looking forward to Wicked Fox by Kat Cho! I got to read the first part of the book through Bookish First, and I won an ARC through them! I haven’t received it yet, but I’m going to my mailbox with expectation every day (although I have some other books I need to read first). I actually won three books (two through them, one through Goodreads) so this isn’t the only bookmail I’m anxiously awaiting.

October 1st is going to be a huge release day for me, because not only is Rebel coming out that day, but so is The End and Other Beginnings (Veronica Roth) and Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo! The cover features Matthew the famous Book Snake (who also appears on the cover of Queen of Nothing, another book I’m getting)!

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Speaking of The End and Other Beginnings, here it is! It is a collection of short stories, including two stories from the Carve the Mark universe and “Inertia”, a story I adored from Summer Days and Summer Nights! I don’t own that book so I’ll be happy to read that story again.

Oh, and I just read in Entertainment Weekly while writing this article that “Inertia” is going to be turned into a movie! If you read this blog a lot, you know I don’t watch a lot of movies, but I definitely want to go see this one!

I really liked Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett (my review will be up in a couple of weeks) and when I found out that she’s coming out with a fantasy novel where a girl has to hunt down Vlad the Impaler’s cursed ring, I thought “sign me up!” Netgalley was nice enough to approve me to read The Lady Rogue, although it’s in protected PDF format and I’m having trouble downloading it, but I’m sure I’ll get that figured out before it comes out in September.

I’m excited for The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White to come out this November! Camelot is such an interesting legend (I happened to get Once and Future on sale on Sunday) and this sounds like a great book. I’ve still only read one short story by Kiersten White (despite owning more than one of her books) but I hope to remedy that soon.

So there’s ten books from the fantasy genre – 5 I love, and 5 I’m looking forward to reading! What books are you looking forward to reading? I can’t wait to see what you all came up with today.

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    1. 🙂 Have fun! I read most of these (well, not the soon-to-be-released books) in the last year, so most of them are fairly new to me too!

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  2. I’m really looking forward to the Wicked Fox as well! I have to say though, I really didn’t like The Flame in the Mist. I don’t know why, everyone else I’ve talked to loved it but I just realllly didn’t like it. And such a shame! Because Ahdieh is such a wonderful writer! I picked fantasy for this week too!

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    1. I think I feel the same way about Illuminae. Although for me and that book, I think I didn’t like it because 1) I read it on Kindle and that’s a horrible format to read that book in, and 2) I got really angry at something that happened in the book. Maybe I’d like Gemina and Obsidio if I read them in a physical format? Other than those two things I liked it.

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    1. Yeah I love it when book settings are so different. Although I like when books have settings of places I’ve been too as well. I guess I like variety, LOL.

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    1. I’m glad they moved up the release date! Especially after they pushed Chain of Gold to next year, it was like they traded. And I did figure out why I couldn’t get Lady Rogue to authorize (I got a new phone) so now I can read it!

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    1. I didn’t get to read any of her books before this year, but so far, I’ve loved everything I’ve read from her.

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    1. There’s a few of them coming out soon. Verity, Internment (already came out) seems dystopian-ish… so hopefully.

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  8. I haven’t read any of these! An Ember in The Ashes is on my TBR for this year, so I hope I enjoy it as much as everyone else seems to. I’m also super excited for Ninth House.
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    1. It was hard to pick a genre! I hate to say “X is my favorite” because there are great books in other genres too.

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  10. I hope you like them both! I’ll probably have to reread the first three Ember books before the fourth book comes out next year.

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    1. I’ve only read that one book of hers but it does seem like a departure from her norm. But it sounds like a good book, and I like when authors get to try new things.

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    1. I hope you like them! Although Cassandra Clare has a ton of books now. It took me a while to get through all the main books.

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  14. I wanted to stop by since you were kind enough to visit my blog this week, but I have to admit that Fantasy is not a genre I have any familiarity with at all! So unfortunately I don’t have anything insightful to say, other than I’ve heard great things about several of the books on your list, and were I a fantasy reader I’d definitely be taking notes! (Sorry….)

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      1. The voyeur in me is really looking forward to seeing what other people include in their lists of unpopular opinions! Though I suspect what most of us are going to take away is that really, our unpopular opinions are fairly common. At least I hope so! 🙂

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        1. It will be interesting. I’ve only thought of 8 so far, but I guess we’ll see if they’re uncommon or not.

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    1. I’m so glad that they ended up deciding to release Blood Heir. It would be interesting to see the changes they made from the original ARC to the finished copy that comes out in November.

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  16. I’m not a big fantasy reader but I’ve heard such good things about all these books. I do really want to read the Shadowhunter books but there’s so many of them and I didn’t really enjoy the film or what I watched of the TV series but I’m guessing the books are probably much better?

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    1. I really like the books (although the first one is not as good as the rest of them). Although you could read The Infernal Devices first, there are characters and events that are discussed in both books.

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  22. I’m all about the fantasy books, and you’ve got some really good choices! I loved The Cruel Prince, too. Flame in the Mist and The Young Elites are on my TBR. Actually, I own Flame in the Mist. Have you seen the phoenix cover? I love it so much! I’m sad the sequel doesn’t have a matching cover. I’m so not feeling the creepy lady face and cherry blossoms lol.

    I was approved for The Lady Rogue, too, and I can’t wait to start reading it! Hadn’t heard of The Guinevere Deception, but I do love books Camelot books, and it sounds interesting. Great picks!
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    1. Yes I’ve seen the Phoenix cover as well. Is that the one you have? When I pre-ordered Smoke in the Sun, the gift to go with it was a paperback of FITM! That way I didn’t have to buy it.

      Lots of good reading this summer!

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    1. I’ve only read one Jenn Bennett book before, but it does seem to be a departure from her previous books. I hope it’s as good as it sounds!

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