FANTASY SERIES STARTED IN 2024 🏰 and ones I plan to continue

with ascendant I've talked about this one quite a bit this year just cuz I feel like so many different people would enjoy this story but it is kind of a buy is Dragon setup

I did feel like the first one was very cute again cozy fantasy so it has the things that you would typically expect the ingredients that you find in a lot of cozy fantasy

my thing with captive Prince was I was like it is as far as romance goes within the first book a complete and utter failure cuz there's not a romance in the first book Is there attraction between characters is it pretty obvious who the characters are going to end up with yeah but it doesn't have a romance in the first book

I did read the second book map of the otherlands I felt it was a little too similar in certain ways to the first book I still really enjoyed it though

the second book did sort of follow some other characters and had the characters from the first one so it sort of just like broadened it but it by no means is what I've been describing about you know series of standalones it was still a sequel just kind of shifted perspectives a little bit

this one is so campy if you pick this one up just know that it's going to be absolutely ridiculous the characters are really over the toop and at first it like kind of slightly irked me and then it sort of grew on me and then I found it entertaining

I know that I do not have the unpopular opinion I don't think in finding that I enjoyed the film more than the book itself and they're quite different from one another but I would be curious to see where the rest of the story goes within the book

I thought that the plotline of there being kind of this almost kind of school/ Trials setting was something that it continuously made the plot move forward but also there's personal Stakes for the character so then you have that connection to her I just in general thought it was a lot of fun

one is definitely very much sort of the classic fantasy races like you have dwarves and elves and the things that go along with those or the things that we think of when we think of those fantasy races those are definitely present in this story but as I said you do have so much about the world and so much about the characters that are their own unique original thing

within the first book you don't really get significant romance within the plot because it would seem that the romance is going to be a slow burn across the series but that did mean that the world and the fantasy elements kind of got to shine which I was a fan of

this first book every time I've brought it up I've mentioned that it was extremely unique it is young adult I think it's a young adult story that's worldbuilding not only matches a lot of the complexity you see in adult fantasy world building but in a lot of ways surpasses a lot of what we get in adult fantasy

the spell shop did something that I would love from more cozy fantasy which is that it wasn't just sweet and charming and cute with the found family and all the things that are making cozy fantasy so loved but it also had a really creative fun world

with the tainted cup very different sort of detective setup with a really fascinating cool world and I loved the world I want to see more of it

that first book alone has it's piqued my interest but I wouldn't say it's absolutely hooked me