Tier Ranking 25+ Book of the Month Fantasy Books 📚

And it kind of has that nonsensical feel. I enjoyed it, but to be on repeat here, wasn't a favorite, which is kind of obvious given that all these are in tier three.

All the stars and teeth, it's been years since I read this book and also its sequel, but I remember just having a really fun time with it. It was kind of an action-adventure seafaring story, and the thing that really stood out to me were the descriptions, which has turned out to be true for this author's other works as well, like Belladonna for example.

I have Vicious, Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, Fragile Threads of Power, and An Unkindness of Magicians. I like I liked all of those quite a bit.

But alas Book of Night didn't quite deliver on what I was expecting from it. I thought that the general premise was interesting and I actually could see this being a little higher cuz I wasn't mad about the book. I didn't hate the characters or anything like that.

I have Vicious, Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, Fragile Threads of Power, and An Unkindness of Magicians. I like I liked all of those quite a bit.

Top tier, the ones that I think were great. I'm going to go through these pretty quick. And obviously, because they're in the top, I really liked them.

I will say Dragon Fruit just has this feeling of being told this tale and I really enjoyed it as a stand alone and I thought that the world building was really interesting. The inspirations are ones that I wish we had more of in our fantasy stories.

I thought it was a little repetitive at times and I think if it had been tightened up a little bit, I would have probably enjoyed it as much as I've enjoyed some of her other works. This one wasn't a favorite.

It was not reinventing the wheel. It wasn't having the absolute most interesting plot premise or characters, but I still had a decent enough time with it.

Top tier, the ones that I think were great. I'm going to go through these pretty quick. And obviously, because they're in the top, I really liked them.

It is interestingly using the bones of fairy tales to tell a dark and almost sinister story but also then sort of provide commentary on fairy tales and how we choose to tell traumatic things and how that kind of informs what we think. And I really found it interesting. I hadn't read anything exactly quite like it.

I just felt like the balance between the cute factor and the wholesome factor versus the more serious subject matter, that balance just personally wasn't to my taste.

But oddly, I almost feel like the edginess for me kind of actually took away from some of the more serious moments. Almost as though at times the kind of cool factor of the main character sort of trumped some of the more poignant moments in a sense.

I respect Piranesi. I definitely think it's an experience, and it's unlike anything I've read, and I also am appreciative of the of the artistry behind it because I think in a world where a lot of books feel pretty similar, this one feels like nothing, which is exceptional and quite a feat. But, I didn't like it.

Top tier, the ones that I think were great. I'm going to go through these pretty quick. And obviously, because they're in the top, I really liked them.

Top tier, the ones that I think were great. I'm going to go through these pretty quick. And obviously, because they're in the top, I really liked them.

I just think it was mastered in The Everlasting, whereas here, didn't quite hit as strong as maybe I would have liked or maybe it wasn't as at the forefront as it ended up being in The Everlasting, which it is so at the forefront in that novel.

That first book is, in my opinion, not the strongest of the trilogy, but, you know, it set the stage for what ended up being one of my favorite trilogies. And I do like that first book. I just think that the series gets better and better as it goes.

I have Vicious, Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, Fragile Threads of Power, and An Unkindness of Magicians. I like I liked all of those quite a bit.

But in this one, again, personally, the balance just wasn't quite what I wanted it to be when it came to showing the impacts versus the characters themselves and how those things from the past have impacted the present and that is kind of what landed it in this fifth tier.

And then June Pharaoh, I don't have anything necessarily against this book. I wasn't ever like, "Oh, jeez." Every time I went to pick it up, I wasn't dragging my feet when I picked it up. But, it was one of those books that when I finished it, I just didn't really have a lot of feelings about it.

This kingdom will not kill me is a newer release from this year and I thought it was it was a fun take on the concept of a portal fantasy. I do find the character to be pretty readable, but I wouldn't say I am absolutely in love with it, though I am curious about what's going to transpire in the sequels because I could see myself growing to like this series more and more with each installment.

I have Vicious, Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, Fragile Threads of Power, and An Unkindness of Magicians. I like I liked all of those quite a bit.

I pretty quickly within this one thought this main character is annoying. And then that thought persisted until the end of the book. There's much more to say about this one but I'm keeping it brief.

Wicked Saints I felt like I finished the book and I was like I kind of was into it at the beginning. And then I just kind of got more and more frustrated with things how they played out. And then at some point I just purged it from my mind.